Senior AI Engineer – Production Systems & Agents

RXinsider LTD.; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

DrFirst is seeking a hands-on technical leader to architect and build production AI automation systems at scale. The role splits 80% as an individual contributor engineer and 20% as servant leadership, mentoring a growing team.

You will work directly with department leaders to map workflows and ship tools that augment their work, driving AI initiatives across HR, Finance, Legal, and Marketing.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building production systems end-to-end (backend, frontend, integrations, infrastructure).
• Staff/Principal Engineer or Tech Lead experience, owning technical decisions on production systems.
• Shipped SaaS products with OAuth2, multi-tenancy, audit trails, and enterprise compliance.
• Deep AI/ML experience: production systems using LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock) and agent frameworks.
• Production Python: FastAPI, Pydantic, httpx, pytest (1000+ test suite experience).
• Production TypeScript/React: Next.js App Router, server components, Okta/NextAuth SSO, Playwright testing.
• AWS and Kubernetes: EKS operations, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Helm, Secrets Manager.
• Enterprise security patterns: Zscaler proxies, SSL certificates, Kubernetes networking, JWKS verification.
• Healthcare or regulated industry experience (HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar frameworks).
• Strong communication skills: run discovery sessions with non-technical stakeholders, explain security trade-offs to executives, and write architecture docs department leaders can follow.
• Servant leadership mindset: remove blockers for others, teach through questions not directives, and make stakeholders successful first.
• Thrives in organized

Responsibilities

• Architect and build production AI automation systems from discovery to deployment.
• Own the technical implementation of department sprints.
• Ship 3-5 production tools in parallel within each sprint.
• Direct coordination with 15+ stakeholders across departments.
• Hands-on coding: backend services, frontend components, and integration tests.
• Security reviews with the CISO.
• Ship multiple times per day and debug production issues.
• Code reviews for 2-3 team members.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Security

Communication

Tools

FastAPI

Pydantic

httpx

pytest

Next.js

Playwright

AWS EKS

ArgoCD

Helm

Secrets Manager

Zscaler

Okta/NextAuth

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

DrFirst is seeking a hands-on technical leader to architect and build production AI automation systems at scale. The role splits 80% as an individual contributor engineer and 20% as servant leadership, mentoring a growing team.

You will work directly with department leaders to map workflows and ship tools that augment their work, driving AI initiatives across HR, Finance, Legal, and Marketing.