Senior AI Engineer - Remote, LLM & Data Architecture

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accertify is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead end-to-end AI solutions, set technical direction, and mentor teams across ML, LLMs, retrieval systems, and data layers feeding them.

You will own deployment patterns across on-prem and cloud, drive operational excellence, and collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to align AI with business needs. Remote-friendly US role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of production software experience.
• Strong proficiency with AI/ML frameworks (OpenAI SDK, FastMCP, agentic orchestration frameworks).
• Strong Python AND strong SQL; both are first-class requirements. Comfortable with query optimization, indexing strategy, and data modeling.

Responsibilities

• AI Architecture: Architect AI systems end-to-end. Set technical direction. Review and mentor on others’ designs.
• LLM Strategy: Define how we use LLMs, routing, agentic orchestration, prompt patterns, fine-tune vs. prompt trade-offs, model selection.
• Production Ownership: Own deployment patterns across on-prem and cloud (Kubernetes, container infrastructure, secure integration). Drive operational excellence.
• Data Architecture: Consult on the data layer, medallion design (bronze/silver/gold), RAG retrieval stores, schema evolution, drift detection, and query performance at scale.
• Evaluation Framework: Define how we measure AI quality, golden datasets, judge-based eval, production observability (OpenTelemetry, Phoenix or similar), behavior testing.
• Technical Leadership: Mentor AI Engineers, lead code and design reviews, set engineering standards for the AI team, and drive cross-team initiatives with Data Science and Data Engineering teams.
• Security & PII: Set the bar for handling sensitive customer data, secure system design, authentication, PII safety, and compliance-aware patterns.
• Collaboration: Partner with product managers, data scientists, engineers, and stakeholders to align AI solutions with business needs.

Skills

AI/ML frameworks

Python

SQL

LLM deployment

RAG

Vector databases

OpenTelemetry

Security & PII

Mentoring

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/DS/Engineering

Tools

OpenAI SDK

pgvector

Pinecone

Weaviate

Kubernetes

Job description

Accertify is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead end-to-end AI solutions, set technical direction, and mentor teams across ML, LLMs, retrieval systems, and data layers feeding them.

You will own deployment patterns across on-prem and cloud, drive operational excellence, and collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to align AI with business needs. Remote-friendly US role.