Senior Applied AI Engineer — Internal AI Tools

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

Job summary

Inversion is seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer to build our internal AI tooling strategy from the ground up, owning research, development, deployment, and iteration of AI systems that accelerate teams and improve decision making. You will lead cross‑functional work on software engineering workflows and expand to company‑wide use cases.

You will join the Internal Software Tools team reporting to the Director of Software, shaping the future of AI-enabled work at Inversion, in our Playa

Qualifications

• Direct experience building and deploying applied AI or LLM-powered systems in production or near-production environments.
• Experience with modern LLM patterns such as tool use, prompts, 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 and shifting priorities.
• 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 and model evaluation methods.
• Establish best practices for applied AI development, experimentation, 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 systems

LLM tooling & patterns

Software engineering fundamentals

Backend/API development

5+ years software experience

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

Inversion is seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer to build our internal AI tooling strategy from the ground up, owning research, development, deployment, and iteration of AI systems that accelerate teams and improve decision making. You will lead cross‑functional work on software engineering workflows and expand to company‑wide use cases.

You will join the Internal Software Tools team reporting to the Director of Software, shaping the future of AI-enabled work at Inversion, in our Playa