Senior AI Engineer - Remote, Production-Grade ML Systems

Decca Recruiting; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Decca Recruiting seeks an Artificial Intelligence Engineer III for a full-remote role. You will design, build, and own production-grade AI systems that address high-impact business problems, applying software engineering, data science, ML, and LLM concepts in enterprise contexts.

You will lead end-to-end AI projects from concept to deployment, develop data pipelines, ensure reliability and observability, mentor teammates, and contribute to engineering standards and best practices across the team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Five or more years of professional experience spanning software engineering, data science, machine learning engineering, or AI system development.
• Advanced proficiency in software engineering, including Python, APIs, testing, and system design.
• Advanced proficiency in one or more large scale data platform such as Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Synapse, or similar.
• Strong applied knowledge of machine learning and artificial intelligence concepts, evaluation techniques, and failure modes.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying LLM based systems using enterprise grade platforms and frameworks.
• Experience with one or more AI orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or similar.
• Deep understanding of data quality, feature relevance, and model behavior across structured and unstructured data.
• Experience deploying, monitoring, and iterating on AI systems in production environments.
• Ability to make and defend technical tradeoff decisions balancing accuracy, cost, risk, and scalability.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical direction and mentor others

Responsibilities

• Designs and owns end-to-end AI solutions, including LLM-based applications, classical machine learning models, and hybrid approaches.
• Builds and operates complex AI systems such as agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) platforms, and decision-support solutions.
• Evaluates ambiguous business problems and determines appropriate AI patterns, modeling techniques, and system architectures.
• Defines and implements evaluation strategies, metrics, and feedback loops to measure model effectiveness and business impact.
• Leads the development of data pipelines, feature strategies, and evaluation datasets required to support AI systems.
• Owns production readiness, including performance, reliability, cost, observability, and failure handling.
• Identifies and mitigates risks related to bias, hallucination, data leakage, and unintended AI behavior.
• Collaborates cross-functionally with product management, platform teams, and stakeholders to guide solution design and delivery.
• Mentors and provides technical guidance to other team members.
• Contributes to the establishment and evolution of AI engineering standards, patterns, and best practices.

Skills

Python

APIs

System design

Testing

Data platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Amazon Redshift

Microsoft Synapse

LangChain

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

Semantic Kernel

Job description

Decca Recruiting seeks an Artificial Intelligence Engineer III for a full-remote role. You will design, build, and own production-grade AI systems that address high-impact business problems, applying software engineering, data science, ML, and LLM concepts in enterprise contexts.

You will lead end-to-end AI projects from concept to deployment, develop data pipelines, ensure reliability and observability, mentor teammates, and contribute to engineering standards and best practices across the team.