Senior Applied AI Engineer — Build Internal AI Tools

Kindredventures; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 139,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Inversion in Playa Vista, CA, seeks a Senior Applied AI Engineer to define and build our internal AI tooling strategy. You will own R&D, development, deployment, and iteration of AI systems that empower teams across the company, starting with software engineering workflows and expanding to broader use cases.

You will join the Internal Software Tools team reporting to the Director of Software, shaping AI-enabled work at Inversion with high ambiguity and rapid iteration.

Qualifications

• Direct experience building and deploying applied AI or LLM-powered systems in production or near-production environments.
• Experience with modern LLM application patterns such as tool use, prompt design, structured outputs, agent workflows, or retrieval-based systems.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including system design, testing, debugging, code quality, and maintainability.
• Experience developing backend systems, APIs, internal tools, or automation frameworks.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production-quality software systems.
• An innovative and optimistic approach to an environment with high ambiguity, shifting priorities, and loosely defined problem spaces.
• Position may require occasional extended hours and/or weekend work.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy internal AI systems and agent-based workflows that unlock useful AI capabilities for teams across the company.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of applied AI tools, including problem definition, prototyping, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, iteration, and long-term maintenance.
• Develop agent platforms and supporting infrastructure for information retrieval, document analysis, workflow automation, and software development assistance.
• Research and validate technical approaches for internal knowledge access and agent behavior, including retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, prompt architecture, and model evaluation methods.
• Establish best practices for applied AI development at Inversion, including experimentation, evaluation, rollout strategy, observability, and responsible use of AI systems.
• Help define the long‑term product and technical vision for how AI tools should be used across the company as Inversion’s first AI‑focused engineer.

Skills

Applied AI

LLM patterns

Software engineering

Backend/APIs

Production software

Ambiguity tolerance

Overtime willingness

Job description

Inversion in Playa Vista, CA, seeks a Senior Applied AI Engineer to define and build our internal AI tooling strategy. You will own R&D, development, deployment, and iteration of AI systems that empower teams across the company, starting with software engineering workflows and expanding to broader use cases.

You will join the Internal Software Tools team reporting to the Director of Software, shaping AI-enabled work at Inversion with high ambiguity and rapid iteration.