Senior ML Engineer - Production AI, Hybrid NYC

People in AI; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

People In AI is building an internal AI engineering team in New York City. You will design, build, and deploy modern AI applications that drive measurable value across diverse business operations.

You’ll work directly with AI leadership to shape production-grade systems, partnering with operators and stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions. This role combines software engineering, ML, LLMs, and retrieval systems, offering ownership from ideation to production in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial

Qualifications

• Experience building production AI applications.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Ability to translate open-ended challenges into production AI solutions.
• Comfort working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build production AI applications using LLMs, embeddings, retrieval systems, and NLP.
• Design intelligent workflows that automate complex business processes.
• Prototype full-stack AI products, including backend services and lightweight user interfaces.
• Develop evaluation frameworks, prompt strategies, and experimentation pipelines.
• Partner with business and technical stakeholders to translate open-ended challenges into production AI solutions.
• Own projects from ideation through deployment and continuous improvement.

Skills

Python production

LLMs NLP embeddings

Prototyping

Stakeholder communication

Builder mindset

ML tooling

Tools

PyTorch

Hugging Face

Job description

People In AI is building an internal AI engineering team in New York City. You will design, build, and deploy modern AI applications that drive measurable value across diverse business operations.

You’ll work directly with AI leadership to shape production-grade systems, partnering with operators and stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions. This role combines software engineering, ML, LLMs, and retrieval systems, offering ownership from ideation to production in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial