AI Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Tue, May 26, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
Owning the AI core of a new product, the full-time AI Engineer will design and manage the inference pipeline, prompt versioning, and cost telemetry while working remotely with a focused team to deliver a production system that continuously improves for thousands of users.
Key responsibilities
- Design and run the inference pipeline, including retrieval-augmented generation and model routing
- Own prompt versioning and the evaluation suite, ensuring real evaluations and release readiness
- Implement cost telemetry and maintain cost discipline to ensure product profitability at scale
Required qualifications
- Experience shipping at least one production LLM-powered product or feature with detailed knowledge of prompts, evaluations, and cost telemetry
- Ability to recover from issues such as prompt drift, model version regression, and evaluation failures
- Strong full-stack engineering skills, proficient in Python or TypeScript, and familiar with Postgres and SQL
- Experience with vector stores (pgvector, Pinecone, or equivalent)
- Hands-on experience with Anthropic API preferred; OpenAI API experience is also acceptable
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