Senior AI Engineer - Enterprise LLMs (Remote, ET)

Rise Talent Advisors; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Rise Talent Advisors is helping a venture-backed AI startup hire AI engineers to own the technical build of customized AI platforms for major enterprise customers. This remote role requires working Eastern time hours with preference for New York, while candidates on West or Central time are not a fit.

The team deploys end-to-end systems inside customer environments, emphasizes audit trails and data governance, and seeks engineers who can own backend or full-stack Python deployments, scaling

Qualifications

• 6 to 12 years in back end or AI engineering, building and deploying large language model systems in production.
• Last 2 to 3 years at a high growth, venture backed AI startup shipping product to enterprise customers.
• LLM or agentic workflows shipped for external customers; internal tools and prototypes do not count.
• Strong software architecture and system design; ability to own technical delivery end to end.
• Backend or full stack software engineering in Python.
• Degree in computer science or related field.
• Experience with enterprise customers or their technical teams, ideally in banking or a regulated industry.
• You live on the US East Coast and work Eastern time hours.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical build of a customized version of the company's AI platform for a major enterprise customer, from architecture to deployment.
• Adapt and extend the core platform for the customer's environment, and merge customer specific work back into the main product.
• Work every day with the core engineering team abroad, overlapping on Eastern time.
• Own production deployments, integrations and the reliability of large language model systems in a regulated enterprise environment.
• Build back end and full stack features in Python: APIs, integrations and deployments for AI powered products.
• Serve as a go to technical contact for the customer's engineering stakeholders; ~20% of time customer facing.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive fixes end to end with a high degree of independence.
• Help shape how the US engineering team works as it grows.

Skills

Python

Backend engineering

System design

Enterprise experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

APIs

Job description

Rise Talent Advisors is helping a venture-backed AI startup hire AI engineers to own the technical build of customized AI platforms for major enterprise customers. This remote role requires working Eastern time hours with preference for New York, while candidates on West or Central time are not a fit.

The team deploys end-to-end systems inside customer environments, emphasizes audit trails and data governance, and seeks engineers who can own backend or full-stack Python deployments, scaling