AI Engineer - Nexus Black

Responsibilities

• Rapidly prototype AI agents and guided workflows that solve concrete customer problems; ship thin slices, instrument, and iterate with real usage.
• Design and implement cloud-native backend services that orchestrate prompts, tools, retrieval, and automations; own the path from POC to production.
• Build robust retrieval for LLMs (search/vector pipelines, context assembly, tool selection) in partnership with data engineering.
• Establish evaluation loops: offline/online tests, golden sets, regression checks, and human-in-the-loop review to measurably improve quality and safety.
• Contribute to developer experience: reusable agents/tools, SDKs, templates, and internal documentation that speed up future builds.
• Collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to frame problems, define success metrics, and translate insights into productizable solutions.
• Lead design discussions and code reviews; mentor teammates and raise the quality bar while keeping momentum high.
• 4-8+ years as a software/AI engineer, including shipping 0→1 products or features in startup-like environments.
• Strong in Python (and comfortable with TypeScript); able to build production services and integrate with external systems/APIs.
• Proven experience taking LLM/agent systems to production (tool use, function calling, planning/exec, retrieval-augmented generation).
• Hands-on with evaluation (offline/online), prompt engineering, tracing, and observability for AI systems.
• Familiarity with vector databases/search, embeddings, and context/retrieval patterns; pragmatism about when/what to index.
• Solid backend fundamentals (services, queues, data models, CI/CD, cloud) and a bias to automate what you repeat.
• Excellent communication and product sense-able to turn fuzzy business problems into clear technical plans and measurable outcomes.
• Fast mover: comfort with ambiguity, crisp prioritization, and the judgment to ship small, safe increments quickly.
• Nice-to-have: open-source contributions, hackathon wins, or a portfolio of shipped side projects; experience at both an early-stage startup and a larger-scale system.
• What We're Offering
• Salary Range: $90,000 to $100,000 plus bonus
• 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
• 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

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Additional Information

We are seeking an AI Engineer with a builder's mindset to bring cutting-edge AI agents and workflows into production for IFS Nexus Black. You'll turn ambiguous customer problems into working prototypes in days/weeks, iterate in the field, and scale the winners into reliable products. You will work across the stack-prompting, tools, retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, and backend services-collaborating closely with product, design, and data engineering. Expect high autonomy, direct exposure to customers, and a fast loop from idea → demo → production.

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