Staff Applied AI Engineer - Production AI & Data Systems

Biopharma Careers; New Jersey; On-site; USD 111,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

PTO

Retirement plan

Other perquisites

Job summary

Biopharma Careers is seeking a Staff Applied AI Engineer in Burlington, MA to build scalable backend services and production AI systems. This role emphasizes production-grade software engineering, data processing, and reliable data pipelines for AI-driven applications.

You will collaborate with product managers, software engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers to design, implement, and maintain robust data‑intensive systems and AI-enabled solutions in production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.
• At least 3 years of hands‑on experience in machine learning, data science, search relevance, or ranking systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical strategy for AI/LLM systems across multiple products.
• Architect retrieval, orchestration, agentic, and evaluation systems that run reliably in production.
• Set the standards for AI safety, evaluation, observability, and responsible rollout in a regulated context.
• Mentor junior engineers into strong AI engineers; employ AI native development skills to multiply productivity.
• Lead the frontier: evaluate new models, techniques, and tools, and bring the right ones into the team.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Python applications and backend services.
• Build systems that ingest, validate, transform, and manage structured and unstructured data in production environments.
• Design data models and storage solutions that support scalable, high-performance applications.
• Develop reusable components for data processing, validation, enrichment, and feature generation.

Skills

Python

ML/LLM systems

REST API design

Distributed systems

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

Docker

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

LangGraph

LangChain

AirFlow

Job description

Biopharma Careers is seeking a Staff Applied AI Engineer in Burlington, MA to build scalable backend services and production AI systems. This role emphasizes production-grade software engineering, data processing, and reliable data pipelines for AI-driven applications.

You will collaborate with product managers, software engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers to design, implement, and maintain robust data‑intensive systems and AI-enabled solutions in production.