Senior AI Engineer - Production LLMs (ET, Remote)

Rise Talent Advisors; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity as part of offer

Job summary

Rise Talent Advisors is seeking an experienced backend/AI engineer to own production-grade deployments of the company’s AI platform for enterprise customers. This remote role follows East Coast hours, with New York preferred, and a New York office being set up.

You will collaborate with a global core team, adapt the platform to customer environments, and ensure secure, auditable deployments within regulated settings. Visa transfers can be considered, and equity is part of the offer.

Qualifications

• 6 to 12 years in back-end or AI engineering for production LLM systems.
• Recent experience at a high-growth AI startup shipping to enterprise.
• Built and shipped LLM/agentic workflows running in production.
• Strong software architecture and end-to-end delivery.
• Back-end or full-stack Python development.
• BS in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience with enterprise customers or regulated industries.
• Live on US East Coast and work Eastern time hours.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical build of a customized version of the 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 daily 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 the go-to technical contact for the customer's engineering stakeholders, with ~20% of time customer facing.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive fixes end to end with independence.
• Help shape how the US engineering team works as it grows.

Skills

Back-end engineering

Python

AI/ML systems production

Enterprise collaboration

Software architecture

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability tooling

Cloud platforms

Job description

Rise Talent Advisors is seeking an experienced backend/AI engineer to own production-grade deployments of the company’s AI platform for enterprise customers. This remote role follows East Coast hours, with New York preferred, and a New York office being set up.

You will collaborate with a global core team, adapt the platform to customer environments, and ensure secure, auditable deployments within regulated settings. Visa transfers can be considered, and equity is part of the offer.