Senior Applied AI/ML Engineer: Build Production‑Ready AI

Atlas Technologies, Inc.; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlas Tech is seeking a Senior Applied AI/ML Engineer to design, build, and operationalize AI/ML solutions for high-impact problems. You will lead architectures, select models, and translate complex concepts into production-ready capabilities used by end users.

The role blends research, prototyping, and applied engineering, with responsibilities spanning inference systems, model evaluation, and collaboration with product and domain teams to deliver measurable value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, ML, Data Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of applied AI/ML engineering with production deployments.
• Experience with LLMs, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, or custom model training.
• Experience with vector databases, high-dimensional embeddings, and semantic search.
• Experience applying LoRA adapters for efficient fine-tuning of foundation models, including training, evaluation, and integration into production pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in Python and ML libraries such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Hugging Face, LangChain, or similar.
• Experience building and operating AI/ML systems in air-gapped environments.
• Deep understanding of model development: supervised/unsupervised learning, neural networks, transformers, time-series, embeddings.
• Familiarity with modern AI/ML ops tooling: MLflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI, Databricks, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of API design, microservices, containers, and CI/CD for ML.
• Ability to connect technical solutions to business value and communicate effectively with executives and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy scalable AI/ML tools for generative AI use cases.
• Develop end-to-end ML pipelines, including LLM tool integration, data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and monitoring.
• Implement production-grade inference systems and integrate ML models into applications, APIs, and microservices.
• Lead experimentation, define hypotheses, run evaluations, assess model performance, and identify improvement strategies.
• Work closely with engineering teams to build robust, secure, and maintainable AI-enabled architectures.
• Provide periodic instruction and prompt fine-tuning to resolve hallucination vectors, user biases, or changes in operational terminology.
• Partner with domain SMEs to translate real-world constraints into features, labels, and model requirements.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and foundation models and recommend their use in mission-relevant applications.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to internal standards, coding practices, and reusable components.
• Ensure responsible AI practices, bias evaluation, data governance, model explainability, and ethical use of automated systems.
• Prepare demos, prototypes, and proof-of-concept integrations that clearly illustrate feasibility and value.

Skills

Python

ML engineering

LLM tooling

RAG

Experimentation

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/ML/DS/Engineering

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Hugging Face

LangChain

MLflow

SageMaker

Vertex AI

Databricks

Job description

Atlas Tech is seeking a Senior Applied AI/ML Engineer to design, build, and operationalize AI/ML solutions for high-impact problems. You will lead architectures, select models, and translate complex concepts into production-ready capabilities used by end users.

The role blends research, prototyping, and applied engineering, with responsibilities spanning inference systems, model evaluation, and collaboration with product and domain teams to deliver measurable value.