Senior Software Engineer (Pipeline team)

Foundation AI

$100K — $130K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in software engineering with 2-3 years in ML/AI production systems
  • Hands-on experience with prompt engineering and RAG architectures
  • Practical experience with MLOps tools like Airflow and MLflow
  • Proficient in Python and familiar with SQL
  • Preferred: understanding of classical ML methods and AWS infrastructure

Responsibilities

  • Design and build RAG architectures for document understanding and classification
  • Ship production-ready LLM-powered features end-to-end
  • Build evaluation frameworks to measure AI output quality
  • Collaborate with the Data Science team to apply research techniques into production
  • Own model, data, and prompt versioning; build reproducible pipelines
  • Implement A/B testing and rollout automation for model releases
  • Monitor model health through drift detection and data quality alerts
  • Design secure, high-performance ML infrastructure and mentor engineers

Benefits

  • Remote work opportunity
  • Collaborative culture with a focus on innovation
  • Mentorship and leadership opportunities
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies in AI and ML
  • Focus on professional growth and skills development
Full Job Description
Job Overview

We're looking for a Senior AI/ML Engineer to help expand our next-generation document intelligence system. Working in close collaboration with our Data Science team, you'll bring deep technical rigor to a system that gets smarter with every document it digests, across hundreds of customers at scale. The system draws on a combination of ML, LLM, RAG, applied mathematics, and smart algorithm design to deliver results at a high level of accuracy.

This is a remote job.
Key Responsibilities
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Design and build RAG architectures for document understanding, classification, and extraction - from chunking and indexing through retrieval quality and grounding.
  • LLM Feature Development: Ship production LLM-powered features end-to-end, from prompt design through evaluation - not just prototypes.
  • Evaluation-Driven Development: Build regression suites, confidence calibration methods, and evaluation frameworks that make AI output quality measurable.
  • Collaboration with Data Science: Partner closely with our Data Science team to bring research-grade techniques into production.
  • ML Pipeline & MLOps: Own model, data, and prompt versioning; build reproducible pipelines for ingestion, training, evaluation, and serving.
  • Rollout Automation & A/B Testing: Implement canary deployments, side-by-side A/B testing, and rollback mechanisms for safe model and prompt releases.
  • Monitoring & Observability: Implement drift detection, data quality monitoring, and alerting; define SLOs for model and pipeline health.
  • System Architecture & Leadership: Design secure, high-performance ML infrastructure; evaluate tooling (Bedrock, MLflow, Airflow); mentor engineers and influence best practices.
Skills and Tools
  • Experience: 5+ years in software engineering, with 2-3 years focused on ML/AI in production systems.
  • LLM & RAG Fundamentals: Hands-on experience with prompt engineering, RAG architectures, and evaluation-driven development - with a track record of shipping LLM-powered features real users rely on.
  • MLOps & Pipeline Tooling: Practical experience with model/data/prompt versioning, experiment tracking, and deployment automation; proficiency with Airflow, MLflow, and Bedrock or equivalents.
  • Programming: Proficient in Python; comfortable with SQL and data engineering patterns.
  • Strongly Preferred: Working understanding of classical ML methods (gradient boosting, embeddings, calibration) sufficient to collaborate closely with Data Science; AWS infrastructure experience (S3, ECS/EKS, Lambda); familiarity with agent frameworks (LangChain, MCP) is a bonus.
Education

A B.Tech degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience relevant to the functional area.
For any feedback or inquiries, please contact us at [email protected]. Learn more at www.foundationai.com.

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