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Senior AI Engineer in USA

  • Robots and Pencils
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, optimize, and deploy AI/ML models end-to-end, including data pipelines and training workflows.
  • Maintain and improve production AI systems through monitoring, debugging, reliability work, and scalability enhancements.
  • Design and ship agentic systems and build RAG pipelines using chunking strategies, embedding models, and vector databases.
  • Develop APIs and integrate internal and third-party services.
  • Contribute to AI architecture decisions, code reviews, design discussions, and engineering practice improvements.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams and communicate technical tradeoffs to non-specialists.
  • Use AI-forward coding tools such as Claude and Cursor in daily engineering work.
  • Support more junior engineers and own meaningful work through production delivery.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years focused on production AI/ML systems and hands-on generative AI development.
  • Strong software engineering background using Python or a similar language.
  • Working knowledge of cloud platforms, preferably with in-depth AWS and AWS generative AI knowledge.
  • Experience designing and shipping agentic systems, using AI frameworks and orchestration tools, and working with evaluation and LLM application observability tools.
  • Understanding of AI safety, responsible AI principles, prompt injection defenses, and PII handling.
  • Hands-on experience building RAG pipelines, including chunking strategies, embedding models, and vector databases.
  • API development experience involving internal and third-party services.
  • Cost optimization expertise covering token economics, caching strategies, model routing, and quantization.
  • Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployments.
  • Daily usage and knowledge of AI-forward coding tools such as Claude Code and Cursor.
  • Strong problem-solving, technical judgment, collaboration, communication, and ownership skills.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental, and vision insurance, and a 401(k) for eligible employees.
  • Employment may be conditional on successfully completing a background check in accordance with local legislation.

Salary: $140k - $188k/yr

Robots and Pencils

Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm that designs, builds, and runs production AI systems and agentic co-workers for enterprise operations, with a focus on AWS. The privately held company, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, provides consulting and implementati...

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