Senior AI Engineer

eClercx

$180K — $200K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software development experience, preferably in Python, C/C++, Go, or Java.
  • 3+ years in production ML system design, testing, and launching, with a focus on model deployment and monitoring.
  • Hands-on experience with Large Language Models (LLMs), including API integration and prompt engineering.
  • Understanding of both commercial and open-source LLMs and their functionalities.
  • Solid foundation in applied statistics, ML concepts, and algorithms for reliable solutions.
  • Proven analytical problem-solving skills with urgent ownership focus and effective communication across teams.
  • Preferred: Experience with cloud infrastructure (especially AWS) and containerized services.

Responsibilities

  • Build agentic AI systems to enhance productivity and production support.
  • Productionize LLMs through evaluation frameworks and retrieval pipelines.
  • Integrate agents within runtime ecosystems for automated diagnostics and incident management.
  • Collaborate with production engineers to translate challenges into AI-driven solutions.
  • Implement safety and governance measures, including model validation and risk assessments.
  • Optimize systems for cost and performance while ensuring high service levels.
  • Create and maintain a RAG pipeline for continual knowledge enhancement.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

Senior AI Engineer

Location: New York, New Jersey, US

Type: Full-time

Department: BFSI

Job Summary

In this role, you will be responsible for launching and implementing GenAI agentic solutions aimed at reducing the risk and cost of managing large-scale production environments with varying complexities. You will address various production runtime challenges by developing agentic AI solutions that can diagnose, reason, and take actions in production environments to improve productivity and address issues related to production support.

Responsibilities
  • Build agentic AI systems: Design and implement tool-calling agents that combine retrieval, structured reasoning, and secure action execution (function calling, change orchestration, policy enforcement) following MCP protocol. Engineer robust guardrails for safety, compliance, and least-privilege access.
  • Productionize LLMs: Build evaluation framework for open-source and foundational LLMs; implement retrieval pipelines, prompt synthesis, response validation, and self-correction loops tailored to production operations.
  • Integrate with runtime ecosystems: Connect agents to observability, incident management, and deployment systems to enable automated diagnostics, runbook execution, remediation, and post-incident summarization with full traceability.
  • Collaborate directly with users: Partner with production engineers, and application teams to translate production pain points into agentic AI roadmaps; define objective functions linked to reliability, risk reduction, and cost; and deliver auditable, business-aligned outcomes.
  • Safety, reliability, and governance: Build validator models, adversarial prompts, and policy checks into the stack; enforce deterministic fallbacks, circuit breakers, and rollback strategies; instrument continuous evaluations for usefulness, correctness, and risk.
  • Scale and performance: Optimize cost and latency via prompt engineering, context management, caching, model routing, and distillation; leverage batching, streaming, and parallel tool-calls to meet stringent SLOs under real-world load.
  • Build a RAG pipeline: Curate domain-knowledge; build data-quality validation framework; establish feedback loops and milestone framework maintain knowledge freshness.
  • Raise the bar: Drive design reviews, experiment rigor, and high-quality engineering practices; mentor peers on agent architectures, evaluation methodologies, and safe deployment patterns


Eligibility Requirements
  • 5+ years of software development in one or more languages (Python, C/C++, Go, Java); strong hands-on experience building and maintaining large-scale Python applications preferred.
  • 3+ years designing, architecting, testing, and launching production ML systems, including model deployment/serving, evaluation and monitoring, data processing pipelines, and model fine-tuning workflows.
  • Practical experience with Large Language Models (LLMs): API integration, prompt engineering, fine-tuning/adaptation, and building applications using RAG and tool-using agents (vector retrieval, function calling, secure tool execution).
  • Understanding of different LLMs, both commercial and open source, and their capabilities (e.g., OpenAI, Gemini, Llama, Qwen, Claude).
  • Solid grasp of applied statistics, core ML concepts, algorithms, and data structures to deliver efficient and reliable solutions.
  • Strong analytical problem-solving, ownership, and urgency; ability to communicate complex ideas simply and collaborate effectively across global teams with a focus on measurable business impact.
  • Preferred: Proficiency building and operating on cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS), including containerized services (ECS/EKS), serverless (Lambda), data services (S3, DynamoDB, Redshift), orchestration (Step Functions), model serving (SageMaker), and infra-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation).


In the US, the target base salary for this role is $180K-$200K. Compensation is based on a range of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and geography. We expect the majority of candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall throughout the range based on these factors

How to Apply
  • Click "Apply Now" to submit your resume through our career site
  • Be sure to include any relevant experience that aligns with the role.
  • Qualified candidates will be contacted by a member of our recruitment team for next steps


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