Senior AI Engineer – Production ML & Systems (Onsite LA)

FalconSmartIT; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

FalconSmartIT is seeking an AI Engineer to build and operate AI-enabled customer experiences and enterprise workflows onsite in Los Angeles. You will own production AI apps, from data ingestion to governance, with a focus on latency, cost, and reliability.

A strong background in LLMs, RAG, and tooling is required to deliver production-grade solutions. Join a team delivering secure integrations, observability, and scalable architectures for knowledge, billing, and content systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in professional software engineering with AI or data-heavy production apps.
• Hands-on with LLM APIs, prompt and context design, RAG, embeddings, and tool calls.
• Strong background in SQL, containers, CI/CD, cloud services, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Build production AI applications using LLMs, retrieval and tool calls.
• Develop secure APIs, event-driven integrations, and orchestration flows.
• Ensure quality, latency, cost, observability, and secure enterprise integration.
• Participate in testing, evaluation, and production ownership.

Skills

LLM APIs

Prompt design

RAG

Embeddings

Tool calling

Automated evaluation

SQL

CI/CD

Cloud services

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data science

Tools

Containers

Document/search stores

Indexing systems

Job description

FalconSmartIT is seeking an AI Engineer to build and operate AI-enabled customer experiences and enterprise workflows onsite in Los Angeles. You will own production AI apps, from data ingestion to governance, with a focus on latency, cost, and reliability.

A strong background in LLMs, RAG, and tooling is required to deliver production-grade solutions. Join a team delivering secure integrations, observability, and scalable architectures for knowledge, billing, and content systems.