Senior Applied AI/ML Engineer — Production-Grade Gen AI

atlas-tech; West Virginia; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

Atlas Tech is seeking a Senior Applied AI/ML Engineer to design, build, and operationalize advanced AI/ML solutions across mission, operational, and business problems. You will shape architectures, select models, run experiments, and translate complex concepts into production capabilities used by end users.

The ideal candidate blends research, prototyping, and applied engineering, with hands-on experience in building AI-enabled applications and deploying them into production systems, working

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in applied AI/ML engineering, including production deployments.
• Experience with LLMs, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, or custom model training.

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 prompt fine-tuning to resolve hallucinations and biases in real-world usage.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to internal standards and reusable components.

Skills

Python

LLMs

ML pipelines

MLOps

Data analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/ML

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Hugging Face

LangChain

MLflow

SageMaker / Vertex AI / Databricks

CI/CD

Job description

Atlas Tech is seeking a Senior Applied AI/ML Engineer to design, build, and operationalize advanced AI/ML solutions across mission, operational, and business problems. You will shape architectures, select models, run experiments, and translate complex concepts into production capabilities used by end users.

The ideal candidate blends research, prototyping, and applied engineering, with hands-on experience in building AI-enabled applications and deploying them into production systems, working