# Staff AI Engineer - Applied AI (Remote)

**Company:** [Rula](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rula)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $207k – $243k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Go, OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, Llamaindex, Dspy, Pinecone, Weaviate, Faiss, AWS, GCP
**Posted:** 2026-03-31

> Leads applied AI investments, owning technical direction for high-impact AI products from design to production deployment. Requires 8+ years AI/ML experience, Python expertise, foundation models, LLM patterns, and evaluation systems.

## Job Description

## Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of AI/ML development (AI solution design, model design, training / finetuning, deployment and quality upkeep), with track record of product success (i.e. not just in an academic or research environment)
- 5+ years of deep experience in **Python** and 2+ years with at least one backend language (**JavaScript**, **TypeScript**, **Java**, or **Go**)
- Hands-on experience with foundation models (**OpenAI**, **Anthropic**, **Bedrock**, **Gemini**, etc.)
- Experience designing evaluation pipelines for human alignment, factual accuracy, or model interpretability.
- Strong expertise in **LLM** integration patterns (**RAG**, tool/function calling, agents, memory routing, etc.), **AI** orchestration frameworks (eg. **LangChain**, **LlamaIndex**, **DSPy**, **Haystack**), and vector databases (eg. **Pinecone**, **Weaviate**, **FAISS**, **Milvus**).
- Deep understanding of **AIOps**, data pipelines, evaluation, and observability systems for continuous model improvement.
- Strong and effective communication skills.
- **Bachelor’s** degree or above in **Machine Learning**, or related field.

## Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience with public cloud (**AWS**, **GCP**, etc.), 2+ years designing and scaling distributed systems.
- Experience delivering secure and compliant **AI** solutions in regulated environments (**HIPAA**, **GDPR**, etc.)
- Familiarity with human-in-the-loop systems and clinical decision support frameworks.
- Contributions to open-source **AI** frameworks or applied research in **NLP**, healthcare **AI**, or **GenAI** safety.
- Experience working in a highly regulated industry such as finance or healthcare
- Experience contributing to early-stage team growth (0 → 1)

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