Position Summary
The Applied AI Engineer designs and builds intelligent services and agentic workflows that sit on top of the cloud, data, and application stack. This role creates production-ready solutions for ranking, summarization, retrieval, classification, recommendation, and decision support using Python and governed enterprise AI development practices.
Key Responsibilities:
• Design and implement AI solutions for ranking, summarization, extraction, classification, recommendation, and conversational workflows.
• Develop prompt-based and model-based solutions using Python and modern AI orchestration patterns.
• Work with structured and unstructured data stored or processed in S3, Redshift, Athena, Glue, EMR, and Databricks.
• Build evaluation, testing, and monitoring approaches for AI-enabled workflows and agentic systems.
• Partner with business, engineering, and governance stakeholders to translate operational pain points into production AI features.
• Support reusable prompt libraries, agent patterns, and service interfaces for internal AI products.
• Contribute to responsible AI practices including grounding, escalation paths, review controls, and measurable success criteria.
Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience in ML engineering, applied AI, NLP, LLM engineering, or a related field.
• Strong Python experience.
• Experience productionizing AI or ML workflows on AWS or similar cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with Databricks, MLflow, model evaluation, and governed data environments.
• Experience working with SQL and distributed processing tools such as PySpark.
• Experience with SageMaker Studio, AgentCore are plus
• Strong communication and product collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with enterprise search, retrieval, recommendation systems, or document intelligence workflows.
• Exposure to responsible AI controls, policy constraints, or model risk/compliance frameworks.
• Experience in insurance, financial services, HR tech, staffing, or workflow automation is a plus.