Senior Production AI Engineer

F5 Remote Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Robots and Pencils is seeking a Senior AI Developer to design, build, and deliver production AI/ML systems. You’ll own features end-to-end, influence architecture, and bring strong technical judgment to challenging problems.

You’ll work on a cross-functional team, designing models, building data pipelines, training workflows, and deploying reliable, scalable AI solutions. You’ll collaborate with experienced engineers to shape how AI scales in enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• 4+ years professional software engineering experience, with 2+ years AI/ML in production.
• Hands-on experience with generative AI development.
• Strong Python or similar language background.
• Experience with cloud platforms, especially AWS GenAI offerings.
• Design and ship agentic AI systems.
• Experience with AI frameworks and orchestration tools.
• Observability and evaluation frameworks for LLM apps.
• Understanding of AI safety and responsible AI principles.
• Hands-on building RAG pipelines and vector databases.
• API development and integration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and deploy ML/AI models end-to-end, from concept through production, including data pipelines, training workflows, and optimization for performance, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Maintain and evolve AI systems in production, monitoring for drift, debugging issues, and driving ongoing improvements to reliability and scalability.
• Bring an AI-forward coding mindset to daily work, using tools like Claude Code and Cursor to ship higher-quality work at pace.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and data teams to align AI work with broader product and business goals.
• Translate technical tradeoffs, model behavior, and constraints into terms non-specialists can act on.
• Participate actively in code reviews and design discussions, raising concerns and offering constructive feedback.
• Contribute to AI architecture decisions with thoughtful perspective on tradeoffs and long-term implications.
• Take ownership of meaningful work end-to-end, including the unglamorous parts of getting AI into production.
• Raise the bar on engineering practices through your own work and by supporting more junior engineers when opportunities arise.

Skills

AI/ML in production

Generative AI

Python

AWS GenAI

Docker

Kubernetes

RAG pipelines

LLM tooling

Code reviews

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Claude Code

Cursor

AWS GenAI

Vector databases

Job description

Robots and Pencils is seeking a Senior AI Developer to design, build, and deliver production AI/ML systems. You’ll own features end-to-end, influence architecture, and bring strong technical judgment to challenging problems.

You’ll work on a cross-functional team, designing models, building data pipelines, training workflows, and deploying reliable, scalable AI solutions. You’ll collaborate with experienced engineers to shape how AI scales in enterprise environments.