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San Francisco, CA / $150000 - $190000 annum

INFO

Salary

SALARY:

$150000 - $190000

Location

LOCATION

San Francisco, CA

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

AI ENGINEER / ML ENGINEER - APPLIED AI & LLM SYSTEMS

$150,000 - $190,000 BASE SALARY

REMOTE / HYBRID (U.S.)

THE COMPANY

A high-growth technology company building AI-powered solutions to automate complex healthcare data workflows at scale.

  • Focused on unstructured clinical and healthcare data transformation
  • AI is core to the company's product and long-term strategy
  • Engineering-first culture with strong technical leadership
  • Works with large-scale, real-world datasets in regulated environments
  • Emphasis on production systems, not experimentation-only AI

THE ROLE

As an AI Engineer / ML Engineer, you'll design, build, and scale production-grade AI systems focused on document processing, NLP, and LLM-powered workflows.

A deeply technical, hands-on engineering role with high ownership across the full AI lifecycle.

  • Build and deploy scalable AI/ML systems using Python and PySpark
  • Develop LLM and NLP pipelines for document extraction, structuring, and summarization
  • Design and optimize batch pipelines and orchestration workflows (Airflow, Databricks, etc.)
  • Productionize AI systems in collaboration with data and platform engineering teams
  • Improve performance, latency, reliability, and observability of AI services
  • Create evaluation and validation frameworks for model and system quality
  • Work with large-scale structured and unstructured datasets
  • Contribute to architecture decisions across AI infrastructure and model serving

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

4-10+ years of experience in AI Engineering, ML Engineering, MLOps, or Applied AI

Core Expertise:

  • Building and deploying production AI/ML systems
  • LLMs, NLP pipelines, or RAG-based systems
  • Large-scale data processing and distributed computing

Technical Skills:

  • Strong Python engineering background
  • PySpark, Spark, Databricks, or similar distributed data tools
  • Airflow or equivalent orchestration frameworks
  • SQL and data pipeline development
  • Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Monitoring, observability, and system optimization

Additional:

  • Experience working with messy, real-world data environments
  • Strong problem-solving and systems-thinking mindset
  • Ability to own systems end-to-end from design to production

NICE TO HAVE

  • Healthcare, clinical, or life sciences experience
  • Familiarity with EHR/EMR, claims, or regulated datasets
  • Experience with OCR, document parsing, or text extraction pipelines
  • Exposure to MLflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI, or model serving frameworks

THE BENEFITS

  • $150K - $190K base salary
  • Flexible remote / hybrid work options
  • High-impact role working on core AI systems
  • Strong engineering culture with modern tooling
  • Opportunity to shape architecture and technical direction
  • Clear growth into senior and staff-level engineering roles

WHY THIS ROLE

This isn't a research-only or prototype-heavy role-you'll build AI systems that operate in production at scale.

You'll work on meaningful, real-world problems where AI directly drives product value, with the opportunity to influence architecture, tooling, and long-term technical strategy.

CONTACT

Chris Williams
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Senior Sourcing Consultant

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