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AI Engineer

2 hours agoLeadSalary: 200K - 200KNew York, USAAiJobs by Optiver

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About the Role

You will design, build, deploy, and operate production-grade AI systems that automate workflows, augment decision-making, and support engineering. You will evaluate models, create evaluation frameworks, develop resilient distributed systems, and continuously improve production AI products.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field
  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Extensive production experience developing applications in Python
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals in architecture, object-oriented design, design patterns, distributed systems, testing, and scalable resilient applications
  • Experience designing, deploying, and operating production LLM applications
  • Knowledge of model evaluation, prompt engineering, tool calling, context management, agent orchestration, and common failure modes
  • Experience defining evaluation frameworks and using quantitative metrics
  • Experience integrating AI systems with external tools, APIs, Model Context Protocol, and modern AI application frameworks
  • Experience building highly reliable production systems
  • Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into practical technical solutions
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Strong problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems and products
  • Evaluate foundation models, agent architectures, and AI workflows
  • Define success metrics and build evaluation frameworks and benchmarking tools
  • Translate ambiguous business challenges into scalable technical solutions
  • Design resilient distributed AI systems
  • Prototype and experiment with emerging models, tools, and workflows
  • Partner with trading, research, and business teams to understand user needs
  • Deliver maintainable software through testing and code reviews
  • Operate, monitor, and continuously improve production AI systems
  • Optimize AI quality, reliability, latency, cost efficiency, governance, and user outcomes

Benefits

  • Performance-based bonus
  • 401(k) match of up to 50%
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Mental health insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • 25 days of paid vacation
  • Market holidays
  • Breakfast, lunch, and snacks
  • Social events
  • Clubs
  • Sports leagues
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