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As an AI Engineer 4 (MLX, Agentic AI, Gen AI platform Services) on the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team, you will develop and deploy proprietary solutions that power core business functions. You will partner with cross-functional teams to design, test, and support AI software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, agentic workflows, similarity search, guardrails, and model evaluation. Your daily work involves optimizing performance metrics like latency, throughput, and cost while ensuring ethical alignment and governance for production systems. You will utilize a technical stack featuring PyTorch, Huggingface, VectorDBs, and AWS Ultraclusters. The role requires proficiency in Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java to build scalable infrastructure. You will solve complex problems related to high-performance AI systems, ensuring reliability through defined service-level objectives while mentoring other associates on research-to-production translation.
What does a AI Engineer earn in California?
Median $246150 from 70 postings across 11 companies.
Develop and support AI software components including foundation model training, LLM inference, and multi-agent workflows.
Implement state-of-the-art optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, cost, and latency of production AI 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 translating research into production.
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).
Python
Go
CUDA
PyTorch
Huggingface
AWS
VectorDBs
LLM Inference
Agentic AI
Distributed Systems
C++
Java
Scala
C#
SaaS
Machine Learning
Gen AI
Model Evaluation
Observability
Python
Go
CUDA
PyTorch
Huggingface
AWS
VectorDBs
LLM Inference
Agentic AI
Distributed Systems
C++
Java
Scala
C#
SaaS
Machine Learning
Gen AI
Model Evaluation
Observability
Python
Go
CUDA
PyTorch
Huggingface
AWS
VectorDBs
LLM Inference
Agentic AI
Distributed Systems
C++
Java
Scala
C#
Machine Learning
Similarity Search
SaaS
Python
Go
CUDA
PyTorch
Huggingface
AWS
VectorDBs
LLM Inference
Agentic AI
Distributed Systems
C++
Java
Scala
C#
Machine Learning
Model Evaluation
Similarity Search
SaaS
Python
Go
CUDA
PyTorch
Huggingface
AWS
VectorDBs
LLM Inference
Agentic AI
Distributed Systems
C++
Java
Scala
C#
Machine Learning
Model Optimization
Similarity Search
SaaS