Senior AI Engineer - Secure, Production-Ready Backend Hybrid

SYNCHRON TEK LLC; Buffalo (NY); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

SYNCHRON TEK LLC is seeking a Senior AI Engineer for a hybrid role based in Buffalo, NY. You will help deliver secure, reliable AI-enabled applications and backend services that support firmwide products and workflows.

You will work with enterprise search, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, and language models on cloud platforms, emphasizing production-ready systems, CI/CD, monitoring, and secure software practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, AI, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience including backend services, APIs, or distributed systems.
• 2+ years building or integrating generative AI or LLM-based solutions in applications or business systems.
• Strong programming skills with C#/.NET; Python or Java/JS/TS is valuable.
• Proven ability to design and integrate APIs and services from development through deployment and production support.
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, cloud deployment, logging, monitoring, and production troubleshooting.
• Understanding of secure software development, data privacy, and responsible use of AI, with clear communication to technical and non-technical colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support secure AI-enabled applications and backend services used across firmwide products and workflows.
• Partner with product, application, data, security, and business teams to move solutions from technical design through production adoption.

Skills

Backend services

APIs

C#/.NET

Python

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

CI/CD

Logging/Monitoring

Production troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Azure cloud

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Foundry

Elasticsearch

Microsoft Bot Framework

Job description

SYNCHRON TEK LLC is seeking a Senior AI Engineer for a hybrid role based in Buffalo, NY. You will help deliver secure, reliable AI-enabled applications and backend services that support firmwide products and workflows.

You will work with enterprise search, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, and language models on cloud platforms, emphasizing production-ready systems, CI/CD, monitoring, and secure software practices.