Staff AI Engineer — Build Production-Ready AI Features

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance Coverage

Equity options

401(k) or RRSP (Canada)

Flexible Time Off

Wellness stipends

Learning & Development

Volunteer program

Rise & Shine Award of Excellence

Job summary

8am is seeking a Staff level Engineer to design and implement AI-powered features across our SaaS platform. You will collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to translate business problems into scalable AI solutions that deliver measurable outcomes for clients and the business.

You will work with data pipelines, large language models, and cloud deployments, while writing robust Python code and building tooling for reliable AI delivery.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Proven track record of building and deploying production-ready AI/ML services at scale
• Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks, platforms, evals and related tooling
• Strong Python or equivalent modern tech stack development skills and familiarity with data manipulation and evaluation workflows
• Experience building scalable data infrastructure and integrating models into broader SaaS systems
• Experience working in AWS cloud environments, or equivalent and with modern DevOps practices
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to translate business problems into AI-driven solutions.
• Design, implement, and integrate AI features into existing 8am products.
• Partner with the Data team to ensure the right data is collected, enriched, prepared, and staged for AI consumption and use.
• Build and evaluate AI-powered services, from customer-facing prototypes to general availability to all our customers.
• Write high-quality Python code to manipulate data, interact with large language models, and assess performance.
• Develop tools and infrastructure to support reliable, scalable, and secure AI deployment.
• Work with our cloud operations team to deploy AI features, monitor their impact, and continuously improve them.

Skills

Python

LLM frameworks

AWS

AI/ML services

Data manipulation

Full stack SaaS

Team collaboration

Tools

LLM evals

AWS

Job description

8am is seeking a Staff level Engineer to design and implement AI-powered features across our SaaS platform. You will collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to translate business problems into scalable AI solutions that deliver measurable outcomes for clients and the business.

You will work with data pipelines, large language models, and cloud deployments, while writing robust Python code and building tooling for reliable AI delivery.