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Sr. AI Engineer

170k – 206kAtlanta, GAML EngineeringHybrid3+ YOE
Summary

Senior individual contributor building and scaling production LLM-powered services and autonomous AI agents for accounting automation software. Owns full lifecycle from prototype through deployment and maintenance.

About the role

How You’ll Make an Impact

  • Build and scale production LLM-powered services, including context engineering, prompt design, and agentic workflows
  • Develop and operate autonomous AI agents, owning the full lifecycle from prototype to ongoing maintenance
  • Design and execute evaluations for AI/ML systems to drive architectural decisions and share findings cross-functionally
  • Contribute to shared AI platforms and internal tooling that enable other teams to deploy and monitor AI features
  • Write production-grade Python code designed for long-term extensibility and team ownership
  • Serve as a technical consultant to product and UX teams on AI feasibility, tradeoffs, and architecture
  • Monitor and optimize AI/ML services for latency, cost-efficiency, and high-volume throughput
  • Troubleshoot production system health and identify solutions to reduce technical debt and performance degradation
  • Design AI capabilities with strict adherence to data privacy and compliance standards for financial data
  • Stay current on emerging AI/ML techniques to raise the collective engineering standard of the team

The Expertise You’ll Bring

  • 3+ years of professional software or AI/ML engineering experience with a focus on production LLM services
  • Proven track record of developing, running, and evaluating autonomous agents in a production environment
  • Strong Python proficiency with the ability to write clean, maintainable, and reliable code
  • Solid understanding of agent architectures and the ability to resolve system failures under time pressure
  • Knowledge of performance optimization, including latency, throughput, and cost management for AI services
  • Familiarity with data privacy and compliance considerations for systems handling sensitive financial data
  • Experience with various LLM models (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source) and modern AI development tools
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical partners
  • Minimum of a four-year degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience

Preferred Experience

  • Full end-to-end AI/ML lifecycle experience including ideation, deployment, and maintenance at scale
  • Practical experience with the AWS AI/ML stack and document processing using LLMs
  • Experience mentoring other engineers and familiarity with uv for Python project management
Skills
PythonLLMsOpenAIAnthropicAWS AI/MLAgentic WorkflowsPrompt EngineeringAutonomous AI AgentsPerformance OptimizationData Privacy
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