AI Engineer
Location/Onsite: Remote - United, States
Our client is seeking an AI Engineer to join their Platform Engineering team, supporting large-scale government technology solutions used by millions of people nationwide. Do you enjoy building real-world AI systems that move beyond prototypes and into production? Are you excited about working with AI agents, LLMs, and RAG pipelines at meaningful scale? Do you want your engineering work to directly improve access to essential food, health, and social services? If so, this may be the perfect AI Engineer position for you. Keep scrolling to see what this company has to offer.
The Perks!
- Compensation: $140,000 - $180,000, based on experience
- 401k
- Health and Dental Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- $50/month for phone bill
- $100/month wellness benefits
A Day in the Life of the AI Engineer
In this role, you’ll design and ship AI-powered agents, workflows, and retrieval systems that power mission-critical government platforms. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Platform, Data, and Security teams to take AI initiatives from idea to secure, scalable production systems. Your work will directly support state programs like SNAP, WIC, and Medicaid, helping millions of users access essential services more efficiently.
Responsibilities include:
- Designing and building AI agents for internal, customer-facing, and partner-facing workflows
- Developing agentic pipelines with orchestration, memory, tool usage, and governance
- Implementing multi-agent systems with clear coordination and handoff patterns
- Creating and optimizing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines
- Building document ingestion, embedding, indexing, and retrieval workflows
- Optimizing AI systems for relevance, latency, cost, and reliability
- Integrating with LLM providers and AI platforms
- Supporting prompt engineering, model evaluation, and output quality measurement
- Ensuring AI workflows are observable, debuggable, and production-ready
- Designing AI systems with security, privacy, and compliance in mind (PII/PHI, SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP readiness)
- Partnering with Product and Engineering leaders to define and execute the AI roadmap
- Helping turn AI proofs of concept into scalable, measurable production solutions
- Evangelizing AI best practices across engineering teams
Requirements and Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience building production software systems
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, AI agents, and RAG architectures
- Strong Python skills and experience integrating AI into backend services
- Experience with agent orchestration tools such as LangGraph, Temporal, n8n, or similar
- Experience designing AI workflows that are observable, reliable, and secure
- Previous experience working in a startup or high-growth company
- Strong communication skills and a bias toward execution
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments
About the Hiring Company:
Our client is a rapidly growing, mission-driven technology company focused on making government services work better for everyone. Their platform helps states modernize and deliver programs like SNAP, WIC, and Medicaid enrollment with best-in-class user experiences. Today, their products serve over 5 million users and power one of the top-rated Health & Fitness apps in the App Store.
Come Join Our Platform Engineering Team!
Start by filling out this 3-minute, mobile-friendly application here. We look forward to hearing from you!
