AI Operations Engineer
Build and operate AI-driven workflows, integrations, model-routing systems, and agent infrastructure across business and engineering functions. The role also supports model evaluation, AI cost optimization, governance safeguards, and organization-wide training.
$170k – $250k/yr
RemoteML Engineering
About the job
Responsibilities
Build AI-Powered Solutions
- Develop and deploy solutions using LLMs, automation frameworks, and internal tooling for business and engineering use cases.
- Integrate AI into HRIS, ATS, ERP, procurement, ticketing, CI/CD, developer tooling, CLM, and matter-management systems.
- Build workflows for document generation, data extraction, knowledge retrieval, and decision support.
- Use modern integration standards such as MCP to provide AI models and agents with secure access to internal knowledge and context.
Support Model Evaluation
- Test and benchmark AI models for accuracy, latency, cost, and safety.
- Support model risk assessments and due diligence with Security and GRC.
- Help implement and maintain internal model routing.
Support Cost Visibility
- Build dashboards and reporting for AI and LLM spend.
- Implement tagging, monitoring, and alerting for cost anomalies.
- Identify and execute cost-optimization opportunities, including prompt efficiency, caching, and model right-sizing.
Maintain Agent Infrastructure
- Provision, credential, and de-provision AI agent access.
- Support deployment, versioning, monitoring, and retirement of agents.
- Maintain and patch agent infrastructure and dependencies.
- Maintain audit trails and logging for agent actions.
Training and Enablement
- Design and deliver AI training for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Create playbooks, guides, templates, and reusable components for safe AI adoption.
- Run onboarding sessions, office hours, and workshops.
- Establish feedback loops to improve training, tooling, and documentation.
Requirements
- Experience building with modern AI and machine-learning tools and frameworks.
- Experience building and consuming APIs, developing data pipelines, and architecting system integrations.
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and experience hosting or operating production services.
- Experience comparing and evaluating AI models across providers, including cost, latency, and quality trade-offs.
- Experience using billing or usage data for cost visibility, forecasting, or optimization.
- Ability to translate business and engineering workflows into technical solutions.
- Experience integrating business systems and engineering or developer tooling.
- Experience creating training materials, documentation, or workshops for mixed audiences.
- Understanding of data privacy, security, and compliance considerations.
- Experience implementing AI safeguards, including identity and access controls for automated or non-human actors.
Compensation and Benefits
- ATS-listed salary: $170,000–$250,000 USD.
- Typical US starting salary: $170,000–$220,000 USD.
- Typical US premium-market starting salary: $200,000–$250,000 USD.
- Healthcare contributions.
- Company stock options.
- Flexible time off in the US and generous entitlement in other countries.
- $500 home-office setup benefit for remote employees.
- Opportunities to attend company-wide offsites.
- Flexible, remote-friendly work environment.
Skills
LLMsAi/Ml FrameworksAPIsData PipelinesAWSGCPMicrosoft AzureMcpModel EvaluationModel RoutingCost OptimizationIdentity And Access ManagementCI/CDHRISERP