Staff AI Engineer/Scientist - Explainable AI Leader

Seekr; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful Mission & Impact

Equity Ownership RSUs

Time Off That Respects Real Life

Work Your Way – Flexible hybrid work

Competitive Total Rewards

401(k) with Company Match

Comprehensive Health & Wellness

Parental Leave

Job summary

Seekr is seeking a senior AI engineer/researcher to advance explainable and trustworthy AI across production systems. The role blends research and engineering to design explainability and contestability features, with collaboration across product and customer teams.

You will work in a high-impact space, contributing to end-to-end AI lifecycles from development to deployment, in a hybrid setup near Reston, VA or Austin, TX.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in AI engineering and/or AI research/science roles.
• Strong background in machine learning and modern AI systems, including LLM/VLMs, agent frameworks, RAG, or adjacent applied ML systems.
• Ability to move between research and engineering.
• Scientists should be able to write production-grade code when needed; engineers should prototype inspired by state-of-the-art papers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build explainability capabilities to help users understand model/agent outputs and influencing factors.
• Build contestability capabilities to capture corrective feedback and improve systems.
• Explore hallucination detection, mitigation, and continual-learning agents from explainability signals.
• Translate literature ideas into prototypes and production-grade features.
• Contribute across AI system lifecycle including model development, inference, deployment, and monitoring.
• Collaborate with product, design, and customer teams to make explainability practical in real workflows.
• Use AI coding assistants effectively within a modern engineering workflow while maintaining code quality.

Skills

AI engineering

ML systems

Python

CI/CD

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/ML

Tools

Kubernetes

Argo CD

GitOps

vLLM

Job description

Seekr is seeking a senior AI engineer/researcher to advance explainable and trustworthy AI across production systems. The role blends research and engineering to design explainability and contestability features, with collaboration across product and customer teams.

You will work in a high-impact space, contributing to end-to-end AI lifecycles from development to deployment, in a hybrid setup near Reston, VA or Austin, TX.