# Software Engineer - AI Engineering

**Company:** [Applied Intuition](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/applied-intuition)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $126k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** LLMs, AI/ML, Agentic Architectures, APIs, Kubernetes, Python, Machine Learning, Generative AI, Data Pipelines, Model Evaluation
**Posted:** 2026-05-08

> Builds AI infrastructure, frameworks, and agentic systems powering company products. Partners with teams to deploy high-impact AI use cases; requires 2+ years AI/ML experience, LLMs proficiency, and full-stack skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and ship the shared AI infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling that power AI capabilities across Applied's products and toolings.
- Partner with product teams to identify the highest-leverage AI use cases and take them from idea to production.
- Serve as a GenAI/LLM expert across the company – owning best practices for architecture, safety, evaluation, and deployment.
- Design, build, and ship agentic systems such as background coding agents, AI SRE tooling.
- Work directly with customers to understand their needs, demo capabilities, and shape the product roadmap. Both external customers and internal teams are your customers.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
- **2+ years** of experience building and deploying AI/ML-powered features & products.
- Hands-on proficiency working with **LLMs** and agentic architectures.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a bias toward shipping production-quality code quickly.
- Comfort working across the stack, from backend infrastructure to **APIs** to frontend work.
- A collaborative mindset and genuine enjoyment of customer interaction – both with external customers and internal teams who depend on your work.
- Proven ability to take initiative and context-switch across multiple high-priority projects in a fast-paced environment.

## Nice to Have
- Practical **ML** literacy – you understand model evaluation, data pipelines, and the tradeoffs between approaches.
- Background in developer tooling, platform engineering, or internal productivity infrastructure.
- Experience working with autonomous vehicle systems or simulation software.

## Compensation
**Base salary range: $126,000 - $250,000 USD annually**, plus equity, comprehensive health/dental/vision insurance, 401k with employer match, learning/wellness stipends, and paid time off.

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