Remote Senior GenAI Engineer - Production AI Systems Lead

Rockstar; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Rockstar is seeking a Sr. AI Engineer/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer to design, build, deploy, and maintain production-grade AI systems across our data intelligence platform.

This role leads the development of LLM-powered applications, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation systems, and scalable AI services. The ideal candidate combines strong machine learning expertise with practical production engineering experience, will own complex work from concept through deployment, mentor

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in ML/AI engineering or related fields.
• 2+ years delivering GenAI/LLM production systems.
• Advanced Python programming skills for production software.
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, Transformers, or scikit-learn.
• Experience deploying AI/ML services with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, APIs.
• Strong knowledge of ML/NLP, information retrieval, model validation.
• Ability to communicate complex AI concepts to diverse stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading AI engineering initiatives.
• Familiarity with model eval, observability, and cost considerations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy production GenAI systems including LLM apps and RAG pipelines.
• Architect scalable AI services with Docker, Kubernetes, APIs, and CI/CD.
• Develop and optimize retrieval systems using embeddings and vector databases.
• Fine-tune and evaluate LLMs for domain-specific use cases.
• Build automated evaluation frameworks for quality, latency, and cost.
• Implement observability, tracing, and performance monitoring for AI systems.
• Translate research prototypes into reliable production features.
• Collaborate with product, data engineering, backend, and analysts to define AI capabilities.
• Review architecture, provide technical guidance, and mentor juniors.
• Create runbooks, documentation, and model lifecycle artifacts.

Skills

Python

ML engineering

AI engineering

Data science engineering

Production ML

Communication

Mentoring

Model evaluation

Observability

Production deployment

Education

Advanced degree in CS / ML / AI / Data Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

APIs

cloud-native infrastructure

LangGraph

AutoGen

CrewAI

vLLM

BentoML

Triton

Ray Serve

Job description

Rockstar is seeking a Sr. AI Engineer/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer to design, build, deploy, and maintain production-grade AI systems across our data intelligence platform.

This role leads the development of LLM-powered applications, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation systems, and scalable AI services. The ideal candidate combines strong machine learning expertise with practical production engineering experience, will own complex work from concept through deployment, mentor