Senior Applied AI Engineer-GenAI Production & Observability

Alterion; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Alterion is seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer in San Francisco to work on GenAI problems, focusing on building and improving production systems. Candidates must have over 5 years of experience in software or ML engineering, strong Python skills, and hands-on experience with LLMs. You will support model evaluation and optimization within the company's platform. Those who thrive in a fast-moving environment and enjoy teamwork will be well-suited for this role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, ML engineering, or applied AI roles.
• Strong Python skills and experience building production services or data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience working with LLMs (APIs or open-source models) in real systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain pipelines for model evaluation, scoring, and monitoring in production environments.
• Apply fine-tuning, optimization, and lightweight model adaptation techniques.
• Develop embeddings, classifiers, and scoring services that support natural language analysis.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Machine Learning engineering

Python

Experience with LLMs

Familiarity with ML frameworks

Tools

PyTorch

Job description

Alterion is seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer in San Francisco to work on GenAI problems, focusing on building and improving production systems. Candidates must have over 5 years of experience in software or ML engineering, strong Python skills, and hands-on experience with LLMs. You will support model evaluation and optimization within the company's platform. Those who thrive in a fast-moving environment and enjoy teamwork will be well-suited for this role.