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The AI Engineer 5 (FM Hosting, LLM Inference) joins the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to develop and deploy proprietary AI solutions. You will design, test, and support software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, agents, multi-agent workflows, similarity search, and guardrails. Key responsibilities involve inventing optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, and cost for production systems, while leading cost-performance governance reviews and mentoring senior engineers. You will utilize a technical stack including AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch, Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, and Java. The role focuses on building scalable, high-performance AI infrastructure and multi-model orchestration pipelines to solve complex technical problems, integrating LLMs and domain-specific models into unified systems to enhance products and customer interactions.
What does a AI Engineer earn in New York?
Median $245450 from 61 postings across 10 companies.
Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training and LLM inference.
Implement multi-model orchestration pipelines integrating LLMs, vector search, and domain-specific models into unified systems.
Develop state-of-the-art optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, and throughput of production AI systems.
Establish and lead cost-performance governance reviews to track GPU utilization and inference cost efficiency.
Lead design councils and review boards to ensure technical consistency and compliance with AI engineering standards.
Mentor Principal and Manager-level AI engineers to foster cross-domain learning and elevate organizational technical maturity.
Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 6 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms.
Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms.
At least 6 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java.
Experience leading development of AI systems with tradeoff decisions around cost, latency, throughput, and accuracy (preferred).
7+ years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (preferred).
Experience designing, developing, delivering, and supporting complex AI systems (preferred).
Experience developing AI and ML algorithms using Python, C++, C#, Java, CUDA, or Golang (preferred).
Experience developing and applying state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing training and inference software (preferred).
Python
Go
Scala
CUDA
Java
C++
C#
PyTorch
Huggingface
AWS
VectorDBs
LLM Inference
Similarity Search
Multi-agent workflows
Model Optimization
Model Evaluation
Observability
GPU Utilization
Python
Go
Scala
CUDA
Java
C++
C#
PyTorch
Huggingface
AWS
VectorDBs
LLM Inference
Agentic AI
Similarity Search
Model Optimization
Model Evaluation
Observability
GPU Utilization