AI Engineer

Anika Systems

AI Engineer role focusing on designing and delivering production AI systems for federal modernization programs. Collaborate in a senior team while working under compliance and security constraints.

Posted 4/30/2026full-time🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzurePostgresPythonReactTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and deliver production AI systems across our commercial platform work and federal modernization programs.
Hands-on builder role on a small, senior team.
Own work end-to-end including data, model integration, services, UI, infrastructure, security, and deployment.
Make sound technical calls under federal compliance, security, and procurement constraints.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field; Master’s is a bonus.
1-3 years of professional experience building and shipping ML or NLP systems, including focus on LLM based or Generative AI solutions.
Strong production experience in Python and TypeScript, with modern web frameworks on both sides (e.g. FastAPI, React).
Hands-on integration of LLMs into real applications — streaming, tool/function calling, token accounting, and failure handling — across at least one of OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Vertex, or Azure OpenAI.
Experience designing agentic systems: multi-step workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop guardrails.
Solid relational data modeling on PostgreSQL with an async ORM and migration tooling.
AWS fluency (compute, storage, IAM, secrets, networking, observability) and infrastructure-as-code, ideally Terraform.
Practical understanding of OAuth/OIDC, JWT, RBAC, multi-tenant isolation, and least-privilege design.
Disciplined testing, linting, and type-checking habits; reviewable diffs and clear written communication.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Remote work options
Research and development investment
Professional development opportunities possibly available

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonTypeScriptMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingLarge Language ModelsGenerative AIPostgreSQLAWSTerraformOAuth/OIDC

Soft Skills

communicationtechnical decision-makingcollaborationproblem-solvingattention to detail

Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s Degree in Computer EngineeringBachelor’s Degree in Data ScienceBachelor’s Degree in Computational LinguisticsMaster’s Degree (bonus)