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Senior AI Engineer – Ops

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full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $150,000 - $250,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Build and maintain AI request handlers, generation configs, and routing logic for our third-party model inference providers
  • Implement monitoring systems, dashboards, and alerting for production AI system health, performance, and costs
  • Design metrics for analyzing the health and efficiency of our production AI resources
  • Create agentic automations for common AI infrastructure tasks and analytics pipelines
  • Manage database schemas for AI configurations and evaluation data
  • Work with the team to define best practices for AI system reliability and observability

Requirements

  • Knowledge of generative AI approaches, research landscape, and model inference configurations
  • Strong coding skills in TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, or similar languages
  • Experience building production systems with external APIs and managing third-party service integrations
  • Familiarity with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, etc.) and databases (PostgreSQL)
  • Ability to think systematically about reliability, performance, and cost trade-offs
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where you'll need to balance quick iteration with production stability.
Benefits
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage, with the company paying 100% of premiums for employees and eligible dependents (subject to plan terms and eligibility; benefits vary by location).
  • Company-provided laptop (Mac by default) and the tools you need to do your best work.
  • Flexible PTO, encouraged and supported. Many teammates take around 2 days per month plus additional time each quarter, depending on role and team planning.
  • Access to the latest AI models to accelerate your work.
  • $100/month Learning Fund for books, courses, coaching, conferences, and video games.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonAI request handlersmodel inference configurationsproduction systemsexternal APIsdatabase schemasobservabilityanalytics pipelines
Soft Skills
systematic thinkingreliabilityperformance analysiscost trade-offsadaptabilityquick iterationproduction stability