Senior AI Engineer

Eleven Eleven

Senior AI Engineer leading AI productivity initiatives and contributing to core product development for a global SaaS platform. Stay at the cutting edge of AI technology while enhancing team capabilities.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $160,000 - $185,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDynamoDBMS SQL ServerNoSQLSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

This role is a dual-focus technical leadership position within our Engineering organization: leading company-wide AI productivity initiatives and contributing as a senior software engineer to our core product.
You will design, build, and maintain AI-powered workflows and tools that accelerate delivery and raise quality across engineering and other departments.
You will develop and execute training strategies that bring all employees along in adopting AI effectively and securely.
This role contributes to a globally distributed SaaS platform used around the world to effortlessly and securely connect guests and residents (and all their devices) to the internet with an at-home Wi-Fi experience.
As a Senior AI Engineer, you will stay at the cutting edge of AI technology, evaluate and introduce new tools and patterns to the organization, and champion security-first practices in a rapidly evolving AI landscape.
Reporting Relationships: This role reports to a Senior Engineering Manager and has no direct reports. Provides AI and technical leadership across all engineering teams and partners with other departments on AI adoption initiatives.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of professional software engineering experience
3+ with demonstrated leadership in AI adoption and tooling
Proven hands-on experience building AI-powered workflows, developer tools, or automation systems that delivered measurable productivity gains across teams or organizations
Deep understanding of the current AI/ML landscape—foundation models, agentic AI patterns, LLM orchestration, tool use, and multi-step reasoning—with the ability to translate rapidly evolving capabilities into practical, secure solutions
Experience developing and delivering AI/technical training programs, workshops, or enablement initiatives for technical and non-technical audiences
Strong security awareness in the context of AI—understanding risks around data leakage, prompt injection, model misuse, and compliance implications of AI tool adoption
Deep expertise in AWS cloud services with hands-on experience designing and operating complex serverless and event-driven architectures
Strong proficiency in two or more object-oriented programming languages
Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases, such as MS SQL Server, DynamoDB, and OpenSearch
Proven experience building and operating high-transaction, low-latency backend systems at scale
Demonstrated experience handling sensitive data in multi-tenant SaaS environments with a security-first mindset (encryption, access control, data isolation, compliance)
Track record of end-to-end ownership of large-scale solutions—not just contributing to a piece, but driving the full architecture from design through production
Experience with RESTful API design and event-driven integration patterns
Proven experience shipping product as part of an Agile team
Strong desire to help a successful company scale existing cloud-based services while also being a significant contributor to the development of new products
Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences
A collaborative, energetic team player with a genuine willingness to help others, a proactive attitude, and a natural curiosity for learning and adopting new technologies.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental and vision coverage
401(k) plan
attractive paid time off policy

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI-powered workflowsdeveloper toolsautomation systemsAWS cloud servicesobject-oriented programmingrelational databasesNoSQL databasesRESTful API designevent-driven integrationAgile methodology

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationproactive attitudecuriosity for learningtraining program developmentsecurity awarenesstechnical translationteam playerinitiative