# AI Operations Engineer

**Company:** [Clickhouse](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/clickhouse)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $250k/yr
**Skills:** LLMs, Ai/Ml Frameworks, APIs, Data Pipelines, AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, Mcp, Model Evaluation, Model Routing, Cost Optimization, Identity And Access Management, CI/CD, HRIS, ERP
**Posted:** 2026-08-14

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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