Red Ventures

Senior AI Engineer | Sage Home Loans

Red Ventures • $150K — $220K *
Charlotte, NC 28269In-Person
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
1 month ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in production software development, including 1 year with LLM systems.
  • Experience in shipping LLM-powered products with practical knowledge of prompt design.
  • Hands-on background in building evaluation frameworks for AI models.
  • Ability to select and integrate foundation models from various providers.
  • Familiarity with post-training techniques and regulated environments is beneficial.
  • Experience with end-to-end model workflows in production environments.
  • Proficient in modern data platforms like Databricks or Snowflake.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with talented AI and software engineers on generative AI technologies.
  • Build and enhance AI products for mortgage processes, including document automation.
  • Design and maintain AI evaluation infrastructure and quality metrics.
  • Lead decisions on AI model training and selection across various vendors.
  • Implement safety measures to mitigate AI risks in a regulated industry.
  • Create reliable and observable AI systems with a focus on cost efficiency.
  • Mentor junior team members and contribute to their growth through guidance.

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, and vision)
  • Life insurance
  • Short and long-term disability coverage
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Generous 401(k) plan with match
  • Flexible paid time off (20 days annually, increasing to 25 days after five years)
  • Employee assistance program
Full Job Description
This role requires a hybrid schedule and will be based in our South Charlotte, NC Headquarters (Tuesday through Thursday) and work fully remotely on Mondays and Fridays each week.

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Sage Home Loans is on a mission to revolutionize the industry by making mortgage simple. We're re-imagining the mortgage application and origination processes around data and AI systems, and we're hiring a Senior AI Engineer to join our Innovation team. In this role, you'll work hands-on with cutting-edge generative AI technologies-partnering with AI engineers, software engineers, and product managers to build LLM-powered products that meaningfully change how mortgages get done. We're looking for a builder with a bias to action who thinks like an owner, brings a growth mindset, and is energized by the chance to ship production AI in a regulated, fast-moving environment.

What You'll Do:
  • Work with cutting-edge generative AI technologies such as LLMs and collaborate with other highly talented AI and software engineers.
  • Help build and improve AI-enabled products such as automated document processing, auto condition clearing, income calculation, call scoring, and virtual assistants.
  • Design and own our AI eval infrastructure-golden datasets, automated regression suites, LLM-as-judge pipelines, and online quality metrics for our LLM-powered products.
  • Lead model, harness, and training decisions across the AI stack-foundation model selection across vendors, agent frameworks and orchestration, custom fine-tuning (SFT, DPO, LoRA), and RAG/retrieval design.
  • Design safety guardrails, hallucination mitigation, and PII handling appropriate to regulated mortgage workflows-because we believe in winning the right way.
  • Design and execute end-to-end AI systems with attention to reliability, latency, cost, and observability in production.
  • Take ideas from discovery to production solutions-thinking big, starting small, and scaling fast.
  • Partner with business stakeholders and work effectively across business, creative, and engineering groups to solve problems and build a positive culture across teams.
  • Provide guidance to the broader applied AI community within Red Ventures on the design and execution of AI projects, especially where you bring specific expertise.
  • Further the Sage Engineering team's technical capabilities by bringing novel methods from the field into Red Ventures through hands-on prototyping, software development, and teaching others-leaving the woodpile higher than you found it.
  • Drive the development of junior team members through mentorship and coaching.


What We're Looking For:
  • 5+ years building and shipping production software, with at least 1 year building LLM-powered systems. BS/MS in CS, ML, or a related field preferred; equivalent applied experience welcome in lieu of a degree.
  • Demonstrated experience shipping LLM-powered products to production, including hands-on work with prompt design, agent harnesses, and tool use.
  • Hands-on experience building eval frameworks-benchmark design, golden dataset curation, LLM-as-judge, and regression testing for prompts and models.
  • Experience selecting and integrating foundation models from multiple vendors (Anthropic, OpenAI, open-weight models), and reasoning about cost, latency, and quality tradeoffs.
  • Familiarity with post-training techniques (SFT, DPO, LoRA) and RAG/retrieval system design, including embedding model selection. Comfort operating in a regulated/financial environment is a plus.
  • Experience with end-to-end model development, deployment, evaluation, and monitoring workflows, including LLM-based products in production.
  • Proficiency with a modern data platform (Databricks, Snowflake, or similar).
  • Familiarity with TypeScript/React/Node a plus, for app integration (nice-to-have).
  • Ability to methodically understand business context, define value propositions, and formulate and solve complex applied AI problems.
  • Ability to clearly articulate the "why" behind proposed AI solutions to relevant stakeholders.
  • Ability to own key deliverables and use problem-solving to deliver projects on time, iterating when justified by incremental value-because plan beats no plan.
  • Ability to intake business requests and priorities, prioritize bodies of work, and communicate project status, timeline, and technical results to broad audiences.
  • Bias to action and proactive communication-every second counts.
  • Experience expanding the knowledge of an AI engineering team through teaching and mentoring on topics where you have specific expertise.
  • Experience leveraging technical expertise to identify the feasibility of potential AI projects, ensuring the team delivers value on projects that are feasible.
  • Stays current on the rapidly evolving AI landscape and translates new techniques, models, and tooling into shipped product-a commitment to getting better every day.


Compensation:

This range reflects total cash compensation, which may include base salary only or base salary plus target bonus, depending on the role. Where eligible, equity may also be offered separately and not included below. Actual compensation varies based on location, experience, and qualifications.
  • Total Cash Compensation Range: $150k - $220k per year

Additionally, the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures, subject to eligibility requirements.
  • Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
  • Life Insurance
  • Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Holiday Pay
  • 401(k) with match
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
  • Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential. That's why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy. Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.

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Over the last twenty years, Red Ventures has built a portfolio of influential brands, digital platforms, and strategic partnerships that work together to connect millions of people with expert advice. Through premium content and personalized digital experiences, Red Ventures builds online journeys that make it easier for people to make important decisions about their homes, health, travel, finances, education and entertainment. Founded in 2000, Red Ventures has 3,000 employees in 10 cities across the US, as well as in the UK and Brazil. Red Ventures owns and operates several large digital brands including Healthline, The Points Guy, Bankrate, MYMOVE, and Allconnect.com.

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