AI/ML Engineer

Job Title: AI/ML Engineer

Job Title:  AI/ML Engineer 
Location: Remote (U.S.-based)
Employment Type: 12 month contract
Rate: $ low triple digits hourly USD
Reports To: CTO
Job #: 7371

About the role

We're hiring an AI/ML Engineer to design, build, and deploy intelligent systems that solve real business problems — not research projects. You'll work directly on production systems, own full model lifecycles, and integrate AI capabilities into our platforms. We expect systems thinking, not just model tuning.

What you'll own

• Design, train, fine-tune, and deploy ML/AI models into production environments
• Build and maintain LLM-powered pipelines including RAG, agents, and tool-use architectures
• Develop and operationalize data pipelines supporting model training and inference
• Integrate AI functionality with existing APIs, SaaS platforms, and internal tools
• Instrument models for observability — latency, drift, accuracy, and cost
• Collaborate with product and engineering to translate business requirements into model specs
• Write clean, documented, production-grade code — not just notebooks

Required

• 3+ years ML/AI engineering in production
• Python (fluent) — PyTorch or TensorFlow
• LLM integration: OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source (Llama, Mistral)
• REST API design and consumption
• MLOps fundamentals: versioning, CI/CD for models, monitoring
• Vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, or similar)
• Git-based workflow with strong code review habits

Strong plus

• LangChain, LlamaIndex, or custom agent frameworks
• Cloud ML: AWS SageMaker, GCP Vertex AI, or Azure ML
• Fine-tuning: LoRA, QLoRA, RLHF pipelines
• Data engineering: Spark, Airflow, dbt
• Evaluation frameworks (RAGAS, LangSmith, custom evals)
• Experience in recruiting tech, HR tech, or B2B SaaS

Who you are

• You ship to production — not just to notebooks or staging
• You think in systems: incentives, feedback loops, failure modes
• You raise problems early and with proposed solutions
• You're direct, own your decisions, and don't require hand-holding
• Remote-first mindset — async communication, high written clarity, proactive updates

Compensation & benefits

• Competitive hourly rate commensurate with experience
• 100% remote — work from anywhere, certain aspect require U.S. Based location
• Flexible hours with async-first culture
• Direct access to leadership — no bureaucracy, high ownership
• Opportunity to shape AI strategy at a high-growth recruiting platform

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