Staff Applied AI Engineer: Scalable Backend & AI Systems

Millipore Corporation; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 111,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off (PTO)

Retirement contributions

Perquisites

Job summary

MilliporeSigma in the United States seeks a Staff Applied AI Engineer to build scalable, production-grade backend services powering AI-driven solutions. You will collaborate with product managers, software engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers to design, develop, and maintain data-intensive applications in production.

The role emphasizes AI/LLM strategy, reliability, observability, and safe rollout in regulated contexts, with mentoring of junior engineers and hands-on Python development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.

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-level engineers into strong AI engineers.
• Employ AI Native development skills to multiply the productivity (Claude, etc.).
• 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

REST API

Pandas

NumPy

ML frameworks

Cloud AWS

Docker

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

AirFlow

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

MilliporeSigma in the United States seeks a Staff Applied AI Engineer to build scalable, production-grade backend services powering AI-driven solutions. You will collaborate with product managers, software engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers to design, develop, and maintain data-intensive applications in production.

The role emphasizes AI/LLM strategy, reliability, observability, and safe rollout in regulated contexts, with mentoring of junior engineers and hands-on Python development.