Senior Applied AI Engineer - Compliance & Risk, Remote

Whisperly; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hardware budget

Access to AI tools

Annual learning funds

Conference support

Job summary

Whisperly is seeking a senior AI engineer to lead the development of production‑grade applied AI systems that help compliance teams interpret complex regulatory content and assess risk. You will drive the full lifecycle, from research and experimentation through production deployment, ensuring dependable model outputs in high‑stakes customer workflows.

The role is remote‑first with an option to work from an office in Tallinn, Estonia.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of applied AI or machine learning engineering experience in production settings.
• Practical experience integrating large language models, whether commercial or open source.
• Strong Python and machine learning engineering fundamentals.
• Experience in natural language processing, document understanding, or information extraction.

Responsibilities

• Design, train, and deploy machine learning systems for compliance automation.
• Integrate and adapt large language models for regulatory document analysis and interpretation.
• Build document‑processing pipelines that extract structure, meaning, and risk signals from complex materials.
• Develop risk assessment capabilities that surface useful findings to compliance teams.
• Create evaluation methods, quality benchmarks, and monitoring for model output.
• Work with product and engineering partners to deliver customer‑facing AI features and apply relevant advances in AI research.

Skills

Applied AI

Python

NLP

Information extraction

Tools

LLMs

Document understanding

ML tooling

Job description

Whisperly is seeking a senior AI engineer to lead the development of production‑grade applied AI systems that help compliance teams interpret complex regulatory content and assess risk. You will drive the full lifecycle, from research and experimentation through production deployment, ensuring dependable model outputs in high‑stakes customer workflows.

The role is remote‑first with an option to work from an office in Tallinn, Estonia.