Senior AIMachine Learning Engineer Python | TheLoops
Palo Alto, CA - USA
Job Summary
As a Senior AI/ML Engineer you will design develop and deploy enterprise-scale AI systems that power intelligent agents copilots and autonomous workflows. You will combine strong software engineering expertise with advanced AI/ML knowledge to build scalable production-grade solutions leveraging LLMs agent frameworks retrieval systems and modern cloud platforms.
In this role you will work closely with engineering product and domain experts to deliver high-quality AI solutions that drive measurable business value. You will contribute to the evolution of our AI platform by building reliable secure observable and scalable systems while helping establish engineering best practices and sharing technical expertise with the broader team.
What Youll Do
AI Platform & Systems Development
- Design and implement scalable AI services and platform capabilities that support intelligent agents and enterprise workflows.
- Build reusable SDKs APIs orchestration layers and shared services that accelerate AI application development.
- Contribute to architectural discussions and technical design reviews.
- Develop solutions that meet requirements for reliability observability security and scalability.
Advanced Applied AI Engineering
- Design and implement production-grade solutions using LLMs embeddings RAG architectures vector databases memory systems and agent orchestration frameworks.
- Evaluate and integrate emerging AI technologies foundation models and agent frameworks where appropriate.
- Develop prompt engineering approaches evaluation strategies and guardrails to improve quality safety and reliability.
- Implement evaluation frameworks and AI quality metrics to measure system performance and business outcomes.
- Optimize latency accuracy cost and scalability of deployed AI systems.
Engineering Excellence & Delivery
- Deliver complex AI initiatives from design through production deployment.
- Apply best practices for testing CI/CD infrastructure automation monitoring and operational readiness.
- Troubleshoot performance issues and conduct root-cause analysis across distributed AI services and integrations.
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise requirements for governance compliance and security.
Collaboration & Technical Contribution
- Collaborate with engineers product managers architects and domain experts to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Provide technical guidance and share knowledge with team members.
- Contribute to technical documentation design reviews and engineering best practices.
- Support continuous improvement of development processes tooling and platform capabilities.
Qualifications :
Required
- 5 years of software engineering experience including 2 years building AI/ML-powered applications in production environments.
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience designing backend systems and APIs.
- Experience with LLMs agent frameworks RAG architectures vector databases embeddings and AI orchestration platforms.
- Hands-on experience with technologies such as OpenAI Azure AI Anthropic Hugging Face LangChain LangGraph Semantic Kernel Pinecone Weaviate or equivalent platforms.
- Solid understanding of software architecture cloud-native development microservices and scalable system design.
- Experience building and operating production applications in cloud environments.
- Strong problem-solving debugging and performance optimization skills.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred
- Experience building agentic AI systems copilots multi-agent workflows or autonomous enterprise applications.
- Experience with AI evaluation frameworks LLM observability AI governance and responsible AI practices.
- Experience with Azure AWS or GCP AI ecosystems.
- Experience integrating enterprise platforms such as ERP CRM ITSM HR Finance or Developer ecosystems.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers or supporting technical onboarding.
What Success Looks Like in 3-6 Months
Technical Impact
- You are delivering high-quality AI services and features that are adopted by internal teams and customers.
- You consistently contribute well-designed maintainable and scalable solutions to the AI platform.
Delivery Excellence
- You have successfully delivered key AI capabilities from concept through production.
- Your work improves system performance reliability scalability and operational efficiency.
AI Innovation
- You have deployed advanced AI capabilities that enhance user experiences and business outcomes.
- You have contributed evaluation monitoring and optimization mechanisms that improve solution quality and reliability.
Team Contribution
- You actively collaborate across engineering and product teams.
- You share technical knowledge provide guidance to teammates when needed and contribute to a strong engineering culture.
- You are viewed as a trusted technical contributor who consistently delivers impactful results.
Additional Information :
At IFS you will work in a growing global enterprise software company where informal hierarchies promote simplicity and trust with responsibility. We strive to deepen our expertise by taking on challenging and varying work assignments in a collaborative environment together with committed colleagues.
With professionalism and a strong customer focus in everything we do from R&D to Sales and Consultancy we are proud to serve world-class customers all over the globe with our leading products.
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What Were Offering
- Salary Range: $170000 to $185000 plus bonus potential
- Flexible paid time off including sick and holiday
- Medical dental & vision insurance
- 401K with Company contribution
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance and disability benefits
- Tuition assistance
- Community involvement and volunteering events
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran. VEVRAA Federal Contractor Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran. VEVRAA Federal Contractor Equal Opportunity Employer
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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