Senior AI Engineer - Enterprise-Scale AI & Agents

Ifs1; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

IFS is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to design, develop, and deploy enterprise-scale AI systems powering intelligent agents and autonomous workflows. You will blend software engineering with advanced AI/ML to build scalable, production-grade solutions on cloud platforms.

You will work with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, secure AI capabilities, practicing best-in-class engineering and contributing to the evolution of our AI platform with measurable business value.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years building AI/ML-powered apps in production.
• Strong Python and backend/API design skills.
• Experience with LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG, vector DBs, embeddings.
• Hands-on with OpenAI, Azure AI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, LangChain.
• Cloud-native, microservices, scalable architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy scalable AI services and platform capabilities.
• Build reusable SDKs, APIs, orchestration layers, and shared services.
• Contribute to architectural reviews and design discussions.
• Develop production-grade AI solutions with reliability and observability.
• Lead testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and operational readiness.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and domain experts.

Skills

5+ years software engineering

2+ years AI/ML in production

Python proficiency

Backend systems & APIs design

Problem solving & debugging

Communications & collaboration

Tools

OpenAI

Azure AI

Anthropic

Hugging Face

LangChain

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

Pinecone

Weaviate

Job description

IFS is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to design, develop, and deploy enterprise-scale AI systems powering intelligent agents and autonomous workflows. You will blend software engineering with advanced AI/ML to build scalable, production-grade solutions on cloud platforms.

You will work with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, secure AI capabilities, practicing best-in-class engineering and contributing to the evolution of our AI platform with measurable business value.