Senior Applied AI Engineer — AI-First SDLC Leader

Outsmart

United States

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary, equity, and benefit
Healthcare for you and dependents
Parental leave for full‑time employees
15 PTO days per year, winter break, 12
Remote work days
Lunch provided in‑office daily
Work with talented people

Job summary

Outsmart is an early-stage startup redefining higher education in the AI era, seeking a senior AI/ML engineer to lead and shape our AI-first SDLC. You will own end-to-end deployment and maintenance of AI systems, set standards for prompts, benchmarks, and MCP/ML tooling, and partner with product leadership on the AI roadmap.

You will work autonomously in a fast-paced environment, shipping AI-first applications at scale, with a focus on content generation, analytics, and multi-modal signals

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of hands-on AI/ML experience.
  • Deep and proven experience with agentic engineering.
  • Experience shipping AI-first applications at scale.
  • Experience using AI to contribute cross‑platform.
  • Demonstrable sense of Product, QA, and DevX.
  • Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • Co‑ownership of AI‑first SDLC.
  • MCP/ML tooling.
  • Contribute to prompting standards across the engineering team.
  • Define and enforce benchmarks for AI applications.
  • Work with Product and Engineering leadership to define AI roadmap.
  • Own end‑to‑end deployment and maintenance of AI systems.

Skills

AI/ML engineering
Agentic engineering
AI-first applications
Cross-platform AI
Product QA DevX
Autonomous work style

Tools

MCP/ML tooling

Job description

Outsmart is an early-stage startup redefining higher education in the AI era, seeking a senior AI/ML engineer to lead and shape our AI-first SDLC. You will own end-to-end deployment and maintenance of AI systems, set standards for prompts, benchmarks, and MCP/ML tooling, and partner with product leadership on the AI roadmap.

You will work autonomously in a fast-paced environment, shipping AI-first applications at scale, with a focus on content generation, analytics, and multi-modal signals

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