Senior AI Engineer: Lead Enterprise AI Systems

Energy Jobline ZR; New York (NY); On-site; USD 152,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

Eleven Recruiting in New York is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join a client investment firm. You will design and deploy enterprise-scale AI systems using Python and modern AI technologies, with emphasis on reliability, maintainability, and production-readiness.

You will work with data scientists and engineers to translate business needs into scalable AI solutions. You will mentor engineers, influence architecture, evaluate models, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver high-impact AI

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise applications.
• Strong Python development experience.
• Experience designing distributed, scalable systems and enterprise architecture.
• Experience building and deploying production software at scale.
• Working knowledge of modern AI technologies including LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, agentic workflows, or AI APIs.
• Experience evaluating technical tradeoffs between AI models and implementation approaches.
• Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks such as React or JavaScript.
• Strong system design skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI engineering initiatives from concept through production deployment.
• Design and build scalable enterprise applications using Python and modern software engineering best practices.
• Partner with business stakeholders to identify high-value AI opportunities and translate them into technical solutions.
• Make architectural decisions around AI model selection, orchestration, retrieval strategies, and system design.
• Build AI-powered applications leveraging enterprise data while ensuring scalability, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
• Evaluate tradeoffs between different LLMs, AI frameworks, and implementation approaches.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices for AI development, code quality, testing, and deployment.
• Mentor engineers through technical guidance and thoughtful collaboration.
• Collaborate across engineering teams to integrate AI capabilities into existing enterprise platforms.

Skills

Python

System design

AI/ML

Communication

Tools

React

AI frameworks

LLM evaluation

Job description

Eleven Recruiting in New York is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join a client investment firm. You will design and deploy enterprise-scale AI systems using Python and modern AI technologies, with emphasis on reliability, maintainability, and production-readiness.

You will work with data scientists and engineers to translate business needs into scalable AI solutions. You will mentor engineers, influence architecture, evaluate models, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver high-impact AI