Senior AI Engineer — Real-Time Multimodal Systems

Propio Language Services; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Propio Language Services is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead the design, development, and productionization of advanced AI systems. This role is hands-on and owner-driven, not just leadership.

You will work across LLM, multimodal and speech AI, building production-grade backend systems and mentoring engineers while evolving the company’s AI capabilities for real-time, latency-sensitive applications.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or equivalent in CS/Engineering, Statistics or related field.
• 7+ years of hands-on full-stack software engineering experience.
• 3+ years building production-grade modern AI systems.
• Experience with AWS, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as AWS CDK.
• Experience with real-time speech AI systems, latency-sensitive apps, and related tools (OpenAI, Deepgram, Whisper, Hugging Face).
• Experience building multi-agent or complex agent orchestration systems using LangChain or similar frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade AI systems from concept to production.
• Prototype, build, and deploy real-time AI applications and infrastructure for speech, voice agents, LLM-powered workflows.
• Lead the development of AI capabilities including agent orchestration, tool calling, RAG, and guardrails.
• Evaluate and select models, architectures, frameworks, and technologies based on quality, latency, reliability, scalability, and cost.
• Stay current with AI research and rapidly prototype approaches, turning experiments into production systems.
• Mentor engineers, conduct design and code reviews, and influence technical direction across the team.

Skills

Python

Full-stack software engineering

AI/ML backend systems

Mentoring engineers

Education

Master's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

AWS CDK

OpenAI

Deepgram

Whisper

Hugging Face Transformers

LangChain

Job description

Propio Language Services is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead the design, development, and productionization of advanced AI systems. This role is hands-on and owner-driven, not just leadership.

You will work across LLM, multimodal and speech AI, building production-grade backend systems and mentoring engineers while evolving the company’s AI capabilities for real-time, latency-sensitive applications.