Senior AI/ML Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Maryland.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and deploy AI functionalities within the SimpliAI suite.

• Create agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, structured extraction, and intelligence for forms and workflows.

• Construct high-quality datasets, implement calibrated LLM-as-judge scoring, and perform regression evaluations.

• Integrate evaluations into the observability ecosystem.

• Take ownership of the quality, safety, latency, and cost associated with deployed systems.

• Execute model routing tailored to workloads and oversee unit economics.

• Operate in accordance with compliance requirements utilizing self-hosted observability, GovCloud inference paths, Amazon Bedrock, and rigorous data retention practices.

• Produce detailed design documents, articulate assumptions, and highlight uncertainties through the Plan-and-Review cycle.

• Develop reusable patterns, conduct reviews, and create shared components to elevate the AI engineering standards of the team.

• Engage in an AI-driven product lifecycle that includes autonomous agents for planning, coding, validation, and release while ensuring human oversight in judgment and direction.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience with responsibility for production systems.

• At least 2 years of experience delivering LLM- or ML-based features to actual users.

• Proven ability to evaluate system performance with a disciplined approach.

• Hands-on experience with agentic patterns, RAG, tool utilization and function calling, structured outputs, prompt engineering, and context engineering.

• Strong foundational knowledge in backend engineering, including APIs, data pipelines, and observability.

• An engineering-first approach to problem-solving.

• Capacity to make well-reasoned design choices amidst uncertainty.

• Proficiency in articulating the details of deployed systems.

• Experience managing systems through production challenges and failures.

• Familiarity with cost and safety, including understanding unit economics and failure modes.

• Experience in government, healthcare, or other regulated sectors is advantageous.

• Must not require employer sponsorship for a work visa.

• Must meet US employment authorization criteria.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance plans with substantial employer contributions for employees and their dependents.

• Options for buy-up insurance plans available at an additional cost.

• Company-sponsored life insurance coverage.

• Company-sponsored short-term disability insurance.

• Company-sponsored long-term disability insurance.

• 11 paid holidays annually.

• Flexible time-off policy.

• 401(k) plan with a 4% employer match.

• Monthly wellness stipend.

• Monthly home office expense stipend.

• Performance-based bonus opportunities.