Senior AI Engineer

ClassWallet$120K — $150K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in AI/ML or LLM systems
  • Strong proficiency in Python and AI tooling such as OpenAI and LangChain
  • Experience in designing and deploying AI agents with measurable business outcomes
  • Familiarity with automation platforms like Zapier and UiPath
  • Comfort with APIs and integrating various SaaS systems
  • Strong communication skills to collaborate with multiple stakeholders
  • Ability to work effectively in remote or hybrid environments

Responsibilities

  • Design and deploy AI agents and automations to improve internal operations
  • Build production-grade integrations between AI systems and ClassWallet's tech stack
  • Develop reusable AI components and internal platforms to scale adoption
  • Translate business needs into actionable AI solutions for various teams
  • Set standards for AI development and code quality within ClassWallet
  • Collaborate on responsible AI practices and data compliance
  • Build evaluation systems to ensure AI efficacy

Benefits

  • Positive, family-oriented team environment
  • Encouragement and positive reinforcement culture
  • Focus on work-life balance and healthy perspective on life
  • Opportunity to make a significant impact on company processes and products
Full Job Description
About the Role

The Senior AI Engineer is the technical force multiplier behind ClassWallet's AI transformation. Partnering directly with the Sr. Director, AI & Automation, you will design, build, and ship the AI agents, automations, and internal tools that accelerate how every team in the company gets work done - and you will selectively contribute AI capabilities into our customer-facing products.

This is a hands-on, builder-first role. You will spend your days writing code, prototyping agents, embedding with business teams to understand their workflows, and turning ambiguous problems into shipped solutions that produce measurable results in days and weeks - not quarters. You'll set the technical bar for how AI is built and operated at ClassWallet.

If you light up at the idea of giving every employee a meaningful AI capability, watching teams transform their throughput, and occasionally putting that same craft into a product millions of dollars in public funds flow through, this is your role.

What You'll Do

Build and Ship
  • Design, prototype, and deploy AI agents, LLM-powered workflows, and automations that measurably accelerate internal work across operations, finance, support, compliance, sales, and engineering
  • Build production-grade integrations between AI systems and ClassWallet's stack - CRM, support, finance, ops, and engineering tools
  • Develop reusable components, prompt libraries, evaluation frameworks, and internal platforms so AI adoption scales across the company
  • Contribute AI capabilities to customer-facing product features in partnership with Product & Engineering

Embed and Translate
  • Sit alongside business teams to understand their workflows, identify high-leverage AI opportunities, and ship solutions to those teams directly
  • Pair with non-technical employees to build, refine, and operationalize their own AI workflows
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete, shippable systems

Set the Technical Bar
  • Make pragmatic choices across the AI stack: LLMs, RAG, agent frameworks, RPA, low-code automation, and traditional software engineering - picking the right tool for the job
  • Establish standards for AI development at ClassWallet: code quality, evaluation, monitoring, prompt management, and cost control
  • Stay ahead of a fast-moving field and bring relevant innovations into the company before they're obvious

Operate Responsibly
  • Partner with the Sr. Director, AI & Automation and Legal/Compliance on responsible AI practices, data privacy, and regulatory alignment appropriate to fintech and public-sector data
  • Build evaluation and observability into AI systems so we know they are working, improving, and behaving as intended

Requirements
  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 2+ years building AI/ML or LLM-based systems in production
  • Strong proficiency in Python and modern AI development tooling - OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, LangChain/LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or comparable agent and RAG frameworks
  • Demonstrated experience designing and shipping AI agents and LLM workflows that solved real business problems with measurable outcomes
  • Working fluency with automation platforms (Zapier, n8n, Make, UiPath, or similar) and the judgment to choose between code and low-code for the job at hand
  • Comfort with APIs, webhooks, and integrating across SaaS systems (Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Slack, Google Workspace, etc.)
  • Pragmatic engineering instincts - bias to ship, comfort with ambiguity, ability to deliver value quickly
  • Strong communication skills; able to move fluently between executive stakeholders, business users, and engineers
  • Based in the US and able to work effectively in a remote or hybrid setup, with periodic travel to HQ as needed

Preferred
  • Experience in fintech, govtech, or other regulated industries
  • Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, evaluation frameworks (e.g., Ragas, OpenAI Evals), and AI observability tooling (e.g., LangSmith, Helicone, Langfuse)
  • Experience building internal AI platforms or developer tools that scaled across an organization
  • Prior work shipping customer-facing AI features in a SaaS product
  • Background in product engineering, data engineering, or applied ML
  • A track record of coaching non-technical colleagues into productive AI users

Benefits

ClassWallet is a positive, family-oriented team environment. Our focus is on encouragement, positive reinforcement, and gratitude. We work hard and are highly motivated to win but with a healthy perspective on life.

We offer an excellent salary and benefits commensurate with experience.

About ClassWallet

ClassWallet is a financial technology company that provides a digital wallet platform for K-12 schools. The platform enables schools to manage and disburse funds for various expenses, such as field trips, classroom supplies, and student activities. ClassWallet's platform also provides real-time tracking and reporting of expenses, as well as compliance with state and federal regulations. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida. ClassWallet has partnerships with over 500 schools and districts across the United States.
Learn more about ClassWallet
Size
50 employees
Industry
Net Income
-$3 million
Founded
2014
5 Year Trend
+50%
Revenue
$5 million
NASDAQ

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at ClassWallet

More Information Technology Jobs

Find similar Senior AI Engineer jobs: