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AI Engineer 4 (AI Foundations, VLM Customization) joins the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to develop and deploy proprietary AI solutions that enhance products for millions of customers. This role involves designing, testing, and supporting software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, multi-agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, and model evaluation. The engineer will optimize performance metrics like latency, throughput, and cost while managing end-to-end architecture, governance, and observability for complex systems. Key technologies include PyTorch, Huggingface, VectorDBs, AWS Ultraclusters, and programming languages such as Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, C++, C#, and Java. The work focuses on the technical challenge of building scalable, high-performance AI infrastructure and implementing state-of-the-art optimization techniques to ensure reliable, ethical, and secure production systems within a large-scale banking environment.
What does a AI Engineer earn in California?
Median $246150 from 73 postings across 11 companies.
Develop and deploy AI software components including foundation model training, LLM inference, and multi-agent workflows.
Implement state-of-the-art optimization techniques to improve performance, cost, latency, and throughput for large-scale production systems.
Design end-to-end architectures for complex AI systems ensuring maintainability, observability, and ethical alignment.
Define and maintain service-level objectives (SLOs) for AI reliability including uptime and model performance drift.
Collaborate with infrastructure teams to optimize GPU/TPU utilization and accelerate inference pipelines.
Lead technical reviews to ensure new AI deployments meet security, data governance, and compliance standards.
Mentor senior associates on scalable design, performance tuning, and transitioning research into production.
Translate recent scientific publications into practical, high-impact features for the company's AI roadmap.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 4 years of experience developing AI/ML algorithms.
Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 2 years of experience developing AI/ML algorithms.
At least 4 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java.
Experience leading development of AI systems with trade-offs regarding cost, latency, throughput, and accuracy (preferred).
6 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (preferred).
Experience designing, developing, delivering, and supporting AI services (preferred).
Experience developing AI/ML algorithms such as LLM inference, similarity search, vector databases, and guardrails using various programming languages (preferred).
Experience optimizing training and inference software to improve hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost (preferred).
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Reinforcement Learning
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PyTorch
Huggingface
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Go
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PyTorch
Huggingface
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LLM Inference
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Distributed Systems
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Java
Scala
C#
Machine Learning
Model Evaluation
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Go
CUDA
PyTorch
Huggingface
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VectorDBs
LLM Inference
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Distributed Systems
C++
Java
Scala
C#
Machine Learning
Model Optimization
Similarity Search
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