AI Engineering Careers

AI Automation Engineer

An AI Automation Engineer designs, builds, and maintains intelligent automation pipelines that leverage large language models, com…

Python programming for automation and orchestration (asyncio, dataclasses, type hints)LLM prompt engineering and prompt chaining across multi-step workflowsLangChain / LlamaIndex / Haystack framework proficiency for agent and RAG pipelinesREST API design and integration (FastAPI, webhooks, OAuth2 flows) +8

AI Agent Developer

AI Agent Developers design, build, and deploy autonomous or semi-autonomous AI agents that reason, plan, use tools, and accomplish…

Salary $95,000-$260,000/yr

LLM fundamentals: transformer architecture awareness, tokenization, context windows, temperature/top-p tuning, and model selection trade-offsPrompt engineering: system prompt design, few-shot chaining, structured output formatting, and prompt debugging methodologyAgent architecture patterns: ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, tree-of-thought, reflection loops, and human-in-the-loop designsTool use and function calling: defining tool schemas, handling tool output parsing, error recovery, and multi-tool orchestration +8

AI Agent Architect

An AI Agent Architect designs, builds, and orchestrates autonomous AI agent systems that plan, reason, use tools, and collaborate …

Salary $140,000-$280,000/yr

LLM prompt engineering and system prompt designAgent design patterns (ReAct, plan-and-execute, reflection, tree-of-thought)Tool/function calling architecture and API contract designMulti-agent orchestration and communication protocols +8

LLM Application Engineer

The LLM Application Engineer is the bridge between cutting-edge large language models and production-grade software products, spec…

Salary $100,000-$180,000/yr

AI Risk 30%

Prompt Engineering & System DesignPython Proficiency (including async programming)LLM API Integration (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Architecture +8

AI Integration Engineer

An AI Integration Engineer bridges the gap between foundation model APIs, enterprise systems, and end-user products by designing, …

Proficient Python and TypeScript/JavaScript for building integration layers and API servicesDeep understanding of REST and WebSocket API design, authentication flows, and rate limitingPrompt engineering and LLM parameter tuning (temperature, top-p, system prompts, few-shot patterns)RAG architecture design including chunking strategies, embedding models, and hybrid search +8

AI Copilot Engineer

An AI Copilot Engineer designs, builds, and ships intelligent assistant experiences embedded directly into software products, deve…

Salary $120,000-$220,000/yr

Prompt engineering and orchestration (system prompts, few-shot, chain-of-thought, ReAct patterns)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture including chunking, embedding, vector search, and re-rankingLLM API integration with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and open-source models via HuggingFacePython and TypeScript/JavaScript for building AI application backends and middleware +8

AI Middleware Engineer

An AI Middleware Engineer designs and builds the integration fabric that connects large language models, vector databases, embeddi…

API and SDK design for AI service abstraction layersRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline architecture and optimizationLLM orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel)Prompt engineering, templating, and dynamic prompt management at scale +8

AI Infrastructure Engineer

AI Infrastructure Engineers design, build, and maintain the foundational systems that power machine learning workloads at scale - …

Salary $140,000-$260,000/yr

Kubernetes orchestration and operator design for GPU workloadsGPU cluster management including multi-tenancy, scheduling (e.g., Slurm, Kubernetes device plugins), and utilization monitoringML model serving architectures (batch, real-time, streaming inference)Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi) for reproducible AI environments +8

AI Inference Optimization Engineer

An AI Inference Optimization Engineer specializes in making trained AI models faster, cheaper, and more efficient when serving pre…

Salary $145,000-$280,000/yr

Model quantization (GPTQ, AWQ, GGUF, INT8/INT4 techniques)GPU architecture understanding and CUDA kernel optimizationInference serving frameworks (vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, Triton, SGLang)Model profiling and bottleneck identification (Nsight, PyTorch Profiler) +8

AI Runtime Engineer

AI Runtime Engineers are the architects behind reliable, high-performance AI systems in production - owning model deployment, infe…

Salary $120,000-$280,000/yr

Production model serving and inference pipeline architectureGPU/TPU resource management, scheduling, and utilization optimizationContainer orchestration with Kubernetes for AI workloads (including GPU-aware scheduling)Model quantization techniques (GPTQ, AWQ, GGUF, INT8/INT4) and their runtime trade-offs +8

AI Tool Builder

An AI Tool Builder designs, develops, and ships the developer-facing frameworks, SDKs, platforms, and infrastructure that power th…

Salary $120,000-$250,000/yr

Python and TypeScript/JavaScript advanced proficiency for SDK and framework developmentAPI and SDK design: ergonomic interfaces, versioning, backward compatibility, and deprecation strategyLLM application architecture: prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, agent frameworks, and tool-use patternsDeveloper experience (DX) design: documentation, tutorials, error messages, and onboarding flows +8

AI Full Stack AI Developer

An AI Full Stack AI Developer designs, builds, and ships end-to-end AI-native applications-from frontend conversational UIs and ag…

Salary $120,000-$250,000/yr

Prompt engineering and LLM orchestration with frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Semantic KernelRESTful and streaming API design for AI services using FastAPI, Express.js, or Next.js API routesFrontend development for AI interfaces including chat UIs, streaming responses, and agent interaction patternsVector database management with Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, Qdrant, or pgvector for RAG pipelines +8

AI Orchestration Engineer

An AI Orchestration Engineer designs and maintains complex, multi-model AI pipelines - chaining LLMs, agents, tools, and APIs into…

Multi-agent system design and graph-based workflow architectureLLM prompt engineering and structured output design (JSON mode, function calling)RAG pipeline design including chunking strategies, embedding selection, and retrieval tuningAPI orchestration and tool-use pattern implementation (function calling, tool routing) +8

AI Multi-Agent Systems Engineer

An AI Multi-Agent Systems Engineer designs, builds, and maintains architectures where multiple autonomous AI agents collaborate, d…

Salary $120,000-$280,000/yr

Multi-agent orchestration and topology designLLM prompt engineering and chain-of-thought reasoningTool use and function calling integrationAgent memory architectures (short-term, long-term, shared, episodic) +8

AI Knowledge Systems Engineer

An AI Knowledge Systems Engineer designs, builds, and maintains the intelligent pipelines that transform raw enterprise data and k…

AI Risk 10%

RAG System Architecture & OptimizationKnowledge Graph Design & Implementation (e.g., property graphs, ontologies)Vector Database Management & Embedding StrategyLLM Fine-Tuning Data Curation & Pipeline Design +8

Remote Requires Coding 18mo

AI Embedded Agent Engineer

An AI Embedded Agent Engineer designs, builds, and deploys autonomous AI agents that are integrated directly into products, workfl…

LLM API orchestration and multi-step prompt chainingTool-calling and function-calling architecture designRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline constructionAgent memory systems - short-term context management and long-term persistent memory +8

AI Fine-Tuning Engineer

An AI Fine-Tuning Engineer specializes in adapting and optimizing pre-trained large language models (LLMs) or other foundation mod…

Deep understanding of Transformer architecture and attention mechanismsMastery of parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) techniques like LoRA, QLoRA, and adaptersProficiency in data curation, cleaning, and formatting for instruction tuningExpertise in designing evaluation metrics and human evaluation frameworks +8

AI Safety Systems Engineer

An AI Safety Systems Engineer designs, builds, and maintains the technical guardrails, monitoring systems, and alignment mechanism…

Salary $130,000-$230,000/yr

Machine learning fundamentals including transformer architectures, fine-tuning, and inference pipelinesAI alignment techniques such as RLHF, Constitutional AI, and reward modelingRed teaming and adversarial testing of language models and multimodal systemsPrompt injection detection, jailbreak prevention, and input/output sanitization +8

AI Context Engineering Specialist

An AI Context Engineering Specialist designs, orchestrates, and optimizes the information architecture that feeds large language m…

Salary $105,000-$195,000/yr

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture design and optimizationVector database management and embedding strategy (dense, sparse, hybrid search)Document chunking, preprocessing, and metadata enrichment pipelinesAdvanced prompt engineering including few-shot, chain-of-thought, and system instruction hierarchies +8

AI Few-Shot Learning Engineer

An AI Few-Shot Learning Engineer specializes in designing, fine-tuning, and deploying models that can learn new tasks from minimal…

Salary $135,000-$210,000/yr

Prompt Engineering & In-Context LearningParameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (LoRA, QLoRA, Adapters)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Pipeline DesignVector Database Management & Semantic Search +6

AI Chain-of-Thought Systems Engineer

An AI Chain-of-Thought Systems Engineer designs, orchestrates, and evaluates the complex reasoning pathways of AI agents. They are…

Salary $135,000-$210,000/yr

Advanced prompt engineering and instruction tuningArchitecting multi-agent and chain-of-thought systems using graphs and state machinesDeep understanding of LLM failure modes, biases, and mitigation strategiesBuilding and operating rigorous evaluation (eval) pipelines for AI reasoning +6

AI Grounding Systems Engineer

AI Grounding Systems Engineers architect and optimize the pipelines that connect large language models to verified, real-world kno…

Salary $115,000-$195,000/yr

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture and pipeline designVector database management and embedding optimization (indexing, chunking strategies, hybrid search)Knowledge graph construction, querying (Cypher/SPARQL), and entity resolutionPrompt engineering for faithful context incorporation and source attribution +8

AI Function Calling Engineer

An AI Function Calling Engineer designs, implements, and optimizes the tool-use layer that allows large language models to interac…

LLM function/tool calling APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini)JSON Schema design and validation for tool parametersAgentic workflow orchestration (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, LlamaIndex)Prompt engineering for reliable tool selection and parameter extraction +8

AI Platform Engineer

AI Platform Engineers design, build, and maintain the internal developer platforms and infrastructure that empower ML engineers an…

Salary $130,000-$240,000/yr

Kubernetes for ML workloads (GPU scheduling, node pools, tolerations, operators)Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi) for ML platform resourcesMLOps pipeline design (training, evaluation, deployment, rollback)Model serving and inference optimization (vLLM, TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, Triton) +8

AI Deployment Automation Engineer

An AI Deployment Automation Engineer bridges the gap between machine learning development and production-grade systems, designing …

CI/CD pipeline design for ML artifacts and prompt chainsContainer orchestration with Kubernetes and Docker for inference workloadsInfrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi) for AI infrastructure provisioningLLM deployment patterns including model sharding, quantization, and batching +8

AI RLHF Systems Engineer

An AI RLHF Systems Engineer designs, builds, and optimizes reinforcement learning from human feedback pipelines that align large l…

Salary $160,000-$290,000/yr

Deep understanding of reinforcement learning fundamentals (policy gradients, PPO, DPO, KTO)Reward model design, training, and evaluation for preference dataLarge-scale distributed training with multi-GPU / multi-node orchestrationPreference data collection pipeline design including annotation quality assurance +8

AI DPO Systems Engineer

An AI DPO Systems Engineer designs, deploys, and maintains intelligent systems that automate data protection compliance, privacy i…

Privacy-by-design architecture for ML pipelines and data platformsData discovery, classification, and lineage tracking at scalePolicy-as-code authoring using tools like Open Policy Agent (OPA) and AWS CedarPrivacy-enhancing technologies: differential privacy, k-anonymity, homomorphic encryption basics +8

AI Hallucination Mitigation Engineer

An AI Hallucination Mitigation Engineer specializes in detecting, measuring, and reducing confabulated or factually incorrect outp…

LLM behavior analysis and failure-mode taxonomyPrompt engineering and adversarial prompt craftingRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture and tuningAutomated evaluation pipeline design (reference-based and reference-free metrics) +8

AI Red Team Engineer

An AI Red Team Engineer systematically probes, attacks, and stress-tests AI systems-especially large language models-to uncover vu…

Salary $130,000-$260,000/yr

Adversarial prompt engineering and jailbreak design for LLMsDeep understanding of transformer architectures, tokenization, and attention mechanismsPython proficiency for scripting attack pipelines and model instrumentationRed-team methodology: scoping, rules of engagement, threat modeling, and reporting +8

AI Multimodal Systems Engineer

An AI Multimodal Systems Engineer designs, builds, and deploys complex AI systems that process and reason across multiple data typ…

Salary $130,000-$200,000/yr

Multimodal Model Architecture (e.g., Transformer variants for vision-language)Python & Systems Programming (Rust, C++ for performance-critical components)Distributed Training & Inference OptimizationData Pipeline Engineering for heterogeneous data +8

AI Adversarial Testing Engineer

An AI Adversarial Testing Engineer specializes in systematically probing, stress-testing, and breaking AI systems to uncover vulne…

Adversarial ML techniques (FGSM, PGD, C&W, backdoor attacks, data poisoning)LLM red-teaming: prompt injection, jailbreaking, indirect prompt injection, system prompt extractionPython programming for building custom attack tooling and automation scriptsML model evaluation and interpretability (SHAP, LIME, attention analysis) +8

AI Document Intelligence Engineer

An AI Document Intelligence Engineer designs and builds systems that use large language models (LLMs), computer vision, and natura…

Document Parsing & Layout AnalysisOCR and Document PreprocessingNatural Language Processing (NLP)Prompt Engineering for Structured Extraction +8

AI Spatial Computing Engineer

An AI Spatial Computing Engineer designs and builds intelligent systems that merge AI models with immersive 3D environments - powe…

Salary $135,000-$250,000/yr

3D mathematics - linear algebra, quaternions, projective geometry, and spatial transformsComputer vision - depth estimation, SLAM, object detection, semantic segmentationNeural 3D representations - NeRF, 3D Gaussian Splatting, neural implicit surfacesReal-time ML inference optimization - ONNX, TensorRT, Core ML, model quantization +8

AI Forward Deployed Engineer

An AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) embeds directly with enterprise clients to rapidly prototype, customize, and productionize A…

Salary $140,000-$260,000/yr

LLM application development using OpenAI, Anthropic, and open-source model APIsRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline architecture and optimizationAgentic workflow design using LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGenRapid prototyping and full-stack development (Python, TypeScript, React) +8

Requires Coding 9mo

AI Workflow Engineer

An AI Workflow Engineer designs, builds, and maintains end-to-end pipelines that orchestrate large language models, agents, retrie…

Prompt engineering and template design for multi-step LLM interactionsRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline design including chunking, embedding, and retrieval strategiesLLM API integration and orchestration across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and open-source model endpointsAgent and tool-use architecture design using frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen +8

AI API Engineer

AI API Engineers design, build, and maintain the integration layer between AI/ML models and production software systems, specializ…

Salary $105,000-$195,000/yr

RESTful and streaming API design (SSE, WebSockets, gRPC)Prompt engineering and prompt management across multiple LLM providersToken economics - understanding context windows, pricing models, and cost optimization strategiesMulti-provider API orchestration with circuit breakers, retries, and failover logic +8

AI Browser Automation Engineer

AI Browser Automation Engineers design and build intelligent systems that autonomously navigate, interact with, and extract data f…

Browser automation frameworks (Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, Browserbase)LLM integration and prompt engineering for decision-making in browsing workflowsVision-language models (GPT-4V, Claude Vision, Gemini) for screen understandingAgent architectures (LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI) with tool-use patterns +8

AI AIUX Engineer

An AI AIUX Engineer designs, prototypes, and implements intelligent user experiences powered by large language models, multimodal …

Conversational UX design and dialogue flow architecturePrompt engineering and prompt chaining for interactive systemsHuman-AI interaction principles (trust calibration, transparency, graceful failure)Prototyping AI-native interfaces (Figma, Framer, code-based) +8

AI Digital Twin Engineer

An AI Digital Twin Engineer designs, builds, and maintains intelligent virtual replicas of physical systems-factories, cities, sup…

Real-time sensor data ingestion and stream processing (Kafka, MQTT, OPC-UA)Physics-informed machine learning and surrogate modeling3D scene reconstruction and spatial computing (NeRF, Gaussian Splatting)Time-series forecasting and anomaly detection on IoT telemetry +8

AI Edge AI Engineer

An AI Edge Engineer designs, optimizes, and deploys machine learning models that run on resource-constrained edge devices such as …

Model compression techniques: quantization (INT8, INT4), pruning, knowledge distillationEdge inference frameworks: TensorFlow Lite, ONNX Runtime, TensorRT, Core ML, Apache TVMEmbedded C/C++ and Rust for resource-constrained platformsHardware acceleration profiling on NPUs, GPUs, DSPs, and FPGAs +8

AI Continuous Training Engineer

An AI Continuous Training Engineer designs and operates the automated pipelines that keep machine-learning models current, accurat…

Salary $115,000-$195,000/yr

Drift detection and data distribution monitoring (concept drift, data drift, label shift)Pipeline orchestration for automated retraining (Airflow, Prefect, Kubeflow Pipelines)Experiment tracking and model versioning (MLflow, Weights & Biases, DVC)Feature store management and feature engineering at scale (Feast, Tecton) +8

AI Observability Engineer

An AI Observability Engineer designs, builds, and maintains monitoring, tracing, and alerting systems purpose-built for AI and ML …

Salary $120,000-$195,000/yr

LLM pipeline tracing and semantic instrumentationCustom metrics design for model quality (hallucination rate, retrieval relevance, toxicity scores)Distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry adapted for GenAI semantic conventionsReal-time anomaly detection on model outputs and infrastructure telemetry +8

AI Workflow Automation Engineer

An AI Workflow Automation Engineer designs, builds, and maintains intelligent systems that automate complex business processes usi…

LLM orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen)Prompt engineering and system prompt design for multi-step agentsPython programming with focus on async patterns and API integrationsRAG pipeline architecture-chunking strategies, embedding selection, retrieval tuning +8

AI On-Device AI Engineer

An AI On-Device AI Engineer specializes in deploying, optimizing, and running machine learning models on edge hardware-smartphones…

Model compression techniques: pruning, quantization-aware training, knowledge distillation, and low-rank factorizationEdge inference frameworks: TensorFlow Lite, ONNX Runtime Mobile, Core ML, ExecuTorch, and Apache TVMHardware acceleration targets: ARM NEON/SVE, Qualcomm Hexagon DSP, Apple Neural Engine, NVIDIA Jetson, Google Edge TPUQuantization mastery: INT8, INT4, mixed-precision, calibration datasets, and per-channel vs. per-tensor schemes +8

AI IoT Agent Engineer

An AI IoT Agent Engineer designs, deploys, and orchestrates autonomous AI agents that perceive, reason about, and act upon data fr…

Salary $95,000-$225,000/yr

LLM agent orchestration using LangChain, LangGraph, or AutoGen for multi-step IoT reasoningIoT protocol fluency: MQTT, CoAP, AMQP, OPC-UA, and BLE communication patternsEdge AI model deployment and optimization (quantization, pruning, ONNX Runtime, TensorRT)Sensor data preprocessing and multi-modal fusion (time-series, vision, audio, environmental) +8

Prompt Systems Designer

A Prompt Systems Designer architects, optimizes, and maintains the complex systems of prompts, prompt chains, and agent workflows …

Salary $100,000-$160,000/yr

Prompt Engineering Fundamentals (zero-shot, few-shot, chain-of-thought)System Design for LLM Applications (chains, agents, RAG patterns)LLM Evaluation & Testing Methodologies (metrics, red-teaming, A/B testing)AI Safety & Alignment Principles (guardrails, content filtering, bias mitigation) +8

RAG Engineer

A RAG Engineer designs and builds Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines that ground large language model outputs in authoritati…

Vector database design and operations (indexing, querying, filtering, hybrid search)Embedding model selection, fine-tuning, and evaluation for domain-specific corporaDocument ingestion and intelligent chunking strategies (semantic, recursive, agentic)Prompt engineering and context window management for RAG-specific templates +8

AI Autonomous Systems Engineer

An AI Autonomous Systems Engineer designs, builds, and deploys intelligent systems that perceive, reason, and act in the real worl…

Deep learning for perception (object detection, segmentation, depth estimation)Reinforcement learning and policy optimization for sequential decision-makingSensor fusion (LiDAR, camera, radar, IMU) with Kalman filters and transformer-based fusionMotion planning and trajectory optimization (A*, RRT, MPC, lattice planners) +8

AI Retrieval Systems Engineer

An AI Retrieval Systems Engineer designs, builds, and optimizes the search and retrieval pipelines that power Retrieval-Augmented …

Salary $100,000-$230,000/yr

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architecture design and end-to-end pipeline constructionVector database management, indexing strategies, and query optimizationEmbedding model selection, evaluation, and domain-specific fine-tuningDocument processing, parsing, and intelligent chunking across diverse formats +8

AI Evaluation Engineer

AI Evaluation Engineers design, build, and operate the measurement infrastructure that determines whether AI systems actually work…

Salary $95,000-$175,000/yr

Designing evaluation metrics and benchmark suites for LLM and generative AI outputsPython proficiency for writing evaluation scripts, data pipelines, and scoring harnessesStatistical analysis including hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, and inter-rater reliabilityPrompt engineering for automated evaluation and synthetic test-case generation +8

AI Agent QA Engineer

An AI Agent QA Engineer specializes in validating, testing, and ensuring the reliability of autonomous AI agent systems powered by…

Salary $95,000-$175,000/yr

LLM output evaluation and scoring (both automated and human-in-the-loop)Prompt engineering for test case generation and evaluation criteriaPython test automation with pytest, parametrize patterns, and CI/CD integrationAgent architecture understanding (ReAct, tool-use, multi-agent orchestration) +8

AI Model Routing Engineer

An AI Model Routing Engineer designs and operates intelligent decision layers that dynamically direct user requests to the optimal…

Salary $135,000-$210,000/yr

Multi-model evaluation and benchmarking across accuracy, latency, cost, and safety dimensionsAPI orchestration and chaining across heterogeneous LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, open-source endpoints)Real-time decision engine design using weighted scoring, rule-based, and ML-based routing strategiesCost optimization and token economics - modeling spend-per-query across model tiers +8

AI Conversational Systems Engineer

AI Conversational Systems Engineers design, build, and optimize intelligent dialogue systems-from chatbots and voice assistants to…

Prompt engineering and chain-of-thought design for multi-turn dialogueRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline architectureLLM orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel)Conversational UX design and dialogue state management +8

AI Human-AI Interaction Engineer

AI Human-AI Interaction Engineers architect the bridge between human intent and AI capability, designing conversational flows, mul…

Salary $105,000-$195,000/yr

Prompt engineering and system prompt architecture for multi-turn conversationsConversational UX design including dialogue state management and error recovery flowsLLM API integration using OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex, and open-source modelsRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline design for grounded, contextual responses +8

AI Decision Intelligence Engineer

An AI Decision Intelligence Engineer designs, builds, and optimizes AI-powered decision systems that translate raw data into actio…

Causal inference and structural causal modeling (SCMs)Decision theory including expected utility, multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), and Bayesian decision networksLLM orchestration and agent architecture (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI)Probabilistic programming with PyMC, NumPyro, or Stan +8

AI Agent Memory Systems Engineer

An AI Agent Memory Systems Engineer designs and builds the persistent memory layers that allow autonomous AI agents to retain cont…

Salary $130,000-$225,000/yr

Multi-tier memory architecture design (short-term, episodic, semantic, procedural)Vector database engineering and embedding index optimization (Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, pgvector)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline design and tuningContext window management and prompt budgeting for LLMs +8

AI Toolchain Engineer

The AI Toolchain Engineer designs, builds, and maintains the integrated software infrastructure that enables the seamless developm…

MLOps/LLMOps Pipeline DesignInfrastructure as Code (IaC)Containerization & Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)CI/CD for ML Models +6

AI Instruction Tuning Engineer

An AI Instruction Tuning Engineer specializes in aligning large language models (LLMs) to follow nuanced, user-provided instructio…

Salary $130,000-$250,000/yr

AI Risk 30%

Instruction & Prompt Data CurationLLM Fine-Tuning (SFT, RLHF, DPO)Evaluation Framework Design (Automated & Human-in-the-Loop)Alignment Techniques & Constitutional AI Principles +6

AI Knowledge Graph Engineer

An AI Knowledge Graph Engineer designs, builds, and maintains structured knowledge representations that power retrieval-augmented …

AI Risk 18%

Ontology and schema design (OWL, RDF, RDFS, SKOS)Knowledge graph construction from structured and unstructured sourcesEntity and relation extraction using NLP and LLM-based pipelinesGraph query languages - Cypher, SPARQL, Gremlin +8

AI Vector Database Engineer

An AI Vector Database Engineer designs, builds, and optimizes vector storage and retrieval systems that power semantic search, rec…

Vector index design and tuning (HNSW, IVF, Flat, PQ, ScaNN)Embedding model evaluation and selection (OpenAI, Cohere, BGE, E5, Jina)Distributed systems architecture for high-availability vector storesQuery optimization: metadata filtering, hybrid search (dense + sparse), re-ranking +8

AI SDK Engineer

An AI SDK Engineer designs, builds, and maintains software development kits and integration libraries that allow developers to con…

API design and RESTful / GraphQL / gRPC interface modelingTypeScript and Python SDK authoring with full type safetyOpenAPI specification design, versioning, and code generationStreaming response handling (SSE, WebSockets, chunked HTTP) +8

AI Code Generation Engineer

An AI Code Generation Engineer designs, builds, and optimizes systems that automatically produce, transform, and evaluate source c…

Salary $115,000-$210,000/yr

LLM API integration and orchestration (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI)Advanced prompt engineering: few-shot, chain-of-thought, self-reflection, and structured outputRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for grounding code in proprietary repositoriesFine-tuning and adapting open-source code models (LoRA, QLoRA, full fine-tune) +8

AI Latency Optimization Engineer

An AI Latency Optimization Engineer is a specialized performance engineer who minimizes inference latency and maximizes throughput…

Inference Optimization (quantization, distillation, pruning)GPU Architecture & CUDA ProgrammingML Framework Internals (PyTorch, TensorFlow Serving, Triton)System Profiling & Benchmarking (latency, throughput, memory) +6

AI Cost Optimization Engineer

An AI Cost Optimization Engineer specializes in reducing and right-sizing the financial footprint of AI and ML workloads across cl…

LLM token economics and prompt cost modelingGPU/accelerator utilization profiling and right-sizingCloud cost management across AWS, GCP, and Azure (FinOps)Model compression techniques: quantization, distillation, pruning, and sparsity +8

AI Caching Systems Engineer

An AI Caching Systems Engineer architects, implements, and optimizes sophisticated caching layers specifically for AI inference pi…

Distributed caching theory & implementation (LRU, LFU, eviction strategies)Proficiency with in-memory data stores (Redis, Memcached, Aerospike)System design for high-throughput, low-latency servicesUnderstanding of AI/ML model inference lifecycle and bottlenecks +8

AI Model Compression Engineer

An AI Model Compression Engineer specializes in optimizing and shrinking large, computationally expensive machine learning models …

Deep Learning Framework Proficiency (PyTorch/TensorFlow)Model Pruning (unstructured & structured)Quantization (post-training, quantization-aware training)Knowledge Distillation +6

AI Distillation Engineer

An AI Distillation Engineer specializes in compressing large-scale foundation models into smaller, faster, and cheaper student mod…

Knowledge distillation theory and implementation (logit-based, feature-based, relation-based)PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers for model training and evaluationQuantization techniques (GPTQ, AWQ, GGUF, INT8/INT4) and calibration data selectionModel architecture analysis - attention mechanisms, MoE routing, layer redundancy +8

AI Robustness Engineer

The AI Robustness Engineer is a critical guardian of AI system integrity, specializing in identifying, testing, and hardening mach…

Salary $150,000-$250,000/yr

AI Risk 10%

Deep Learning Fundamentals (PyTorch/TensorFlow)Model Security & Adversarial Attacks (FGSM, PGD, Backdoor Attacks)Robustness Evaluation FrameworksStatistical Testing for Distribution Shift +4

Remote Requires Coding 18mo

AI Computer Vision Engineer

AI Computer Vision Engineers design, build, and deploy intelligent systems that interpret and act on visual data-from medical imag…

Salary $95,000-$195,000/yr

Deep learning fundamentals: CNNs, ResNets, attention mechanisms, vision transformers (ViT)Object detection and segmentation: YOLO family, Mask R-CNN, Segment Anything Model (SAM)Image classification, regression, and metric learningData augmentation, synthetic data generation, and dataset curation at scale +8

AI Structured Extraction Engineer

AI Structured Extraction Engineers design and build intelligent pipelines that transform messy, unstructured data-PDFs, emails, co…

Schema design and data modeling for structured outputs (JSON Schema, Pydantic, Zod)LLM prompt engineering for extraction tasks including few-shot and chain-of-thought strategiesFunction calling and tool-use APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini)Document parsing and preprocessing (OCR, PDF extraction, HTML cleaning) +8

AI Robotics AI Engineer

An AI Robotics AI Engineer designs and implements the intelligence layer for robotic systems, specializing in integrating cutting-…

Robot Operating System (ROS/ROS2)Computer Vision & 3D Perception (e.g., SLAM, point clouds)Machine Learning Model Deployment (TensorRT, ONNX)Deep Learning for Robotics (CNNs, RNNs, Transformers) +7

Requires Coding 12mo

AI Long-Context Systems Engineer

An AI Long-Context Systems Engineer designs and builds production systems that exploit large context windows (128K-10M+ tokens) in…

Salary $145,000-$280,000/yr

Long-context prompt architecture and dynamic context budgetingTransformer attention mechanics and the lost-in-the-middle problemChunking, hierarchical summarization, and document segmentation strategiesToken economics: cost modeling, caching, and budget-aware routing +8

AI Semantic Search Engineer

An AI Semantic Search Engineer designs and builds search systems that understand intent and meaning rather than mere keywords, lev…

Demand 8.9/10

Vector embedding model selection, fine-tuning, and evaluation (e.g., text-embedding-3, E5, BGE, GTE)Vector database design and optimization (Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, pgvector)Chunking and document preprocessing strategies for retrieval qualityHybrid retrieval combining sparse (BM25) and dense (embedding) search methods +8

AI AR/VR AI Engineer

An AI AR/VR Engineer designs and deploys intelligent systems that power spatial computing experiences - from AI-driven scene under…

Demand 8.9/10

Salary $115,000-$195,000/yr

Real-time 3D rendering and shader programming (Unity URP/HDRP, Unreal Engine)Computer vision for AR: feature detection, SLAM, depth estimation, plane detectionOn-device ML model optimization: quantization, pruning, ONNX Runtime, Core ML, TFLiteNeural rendering: NeRF, 3D Gaussian Splatting, neural radiance caching +8

AI Plugin Developer

An AI Plugin Developer designs, builds, and maintains software extensions that integrate large language models and AI services int…

Demand 8.8/10

Salary $95,000-$175,000/yr

RESTful API design and consumption (OpenAPI/Swagger)Prompt engineering and LLM output optimizationOAuth 2.0, API key management, and secure credential handlingJSON Schema design for function calling and structured outputs +8

AI Voice Application Engineer

AI Voice Application Engineers design, build, and optimize intelligent voice-driven systems that enable natural spoken interaction…

Salary $105,000-$175,000/yr

Speech-to-text pipeline design and integration (streaming and batch)Text-to-speech synthesis selection, configuration, and voice customizationLLM orchestration for conversational turn management and context handlingReal-time streaming architecture (WebSockets, WebRTC, SIP) +8

AI AIOps Engineer

An AI AIOps Engineer designs, deploys, and maintains intelligent systems that leverage machine learning and large language models …

Salary $105,000-$215,000/yr

Time-series anomaly detection and forecasting (Prophet, ARIMA, neural forecasters)Distributed systems observability (metrics, logs, traces, profiling)ML pipeline design and MLOps for operational dataInfrastructure-as-Code and GitOps (Terraform, ArgoCD, Pulumi) +8

AI Sandbox Engineer

An AI Sandbox Engineer designs, builds, and maintains isolated, secure environments where AI models, agents, and workflows can be …

Containerization and orchestration for ephemeral AI environments (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)Infrastructure-as-Code for reproducible sandbox provisioning (Terraform, Pulumi)AI model evaluation frameworks and benchmarking (LM Evaluation Harness, Promptfoo, EleutherAI lm-eval)Prompt injection detection and adversarial testing methodology +8

AI Synthetic Environment Engineer

AI Synthetic Environment Engineers architect and build high-fidelity virtual worlds and simulation platforms that serve as trainin…

Real-time 3D engine development (Unreal Engine 5, Unity HDRP)Physics simulation and rigid/soft body dynamics (PhysX, MuJoCo, Bullet)Procedural environment and content generation (PCG algorithms, L-systems, Wave Function Collapse)Reinforcement learning environment design and reward shaping +8

AI Local LLM Engineer

An AI Local LLM Engineer specializes in deploying, optimizing, and maintaining large language models that run entirely on local or…

LLM architecture fundamentals - transformer internals, attention mechanisms, KV-cache behaviorModel quantization - GPTQ, AWQ, GGUF, INT4/INT8, smooth-quant, and quality-impact tradeoffsInference engine configuration - vLLM, llama.cpp, TensorRT-LLM, text-generation-inference (TGI)Hardware profiling and optimization - GPU memory management, CUDA tuning, CPU SIMD, Apple Metal, NPU acceleration +8

AI Batch Processing Engineer

An AI Batch Processing Engineer designs, builds, and optimizes large-scale pipelines that process millions of data records through…

Salary $105,000-$175,000/yr

Batch pipeline design and orchestration (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster)Python async programming and concurrency control for API workloadsLLM API integration (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere) with rate-limit handlingToken budget management and cost optimization strategies +8

AI Token Optimization Engineer

An AI Token Optimization Engineer specializes in minimizing LLM inference costs and latency by engineering prompts, managing conte…

Deep understanding of tokenization algorithms (BPE, WordPiece, SentencePiece) and model-specific vocabulariesPrompt engineering and systematic prompt compression techniquesLLM API usage patterns, pricing models, and rate-limit managementRAG pipeline optimization including chunking strategies and context assembly +8

AI Benchmark Engineer

An AI Benchmark Engineer designs, builds, and maintains rigorous evaluation frameworks that measure the real-world performance of …

Statistical evaluation design (sampling, confidence intervals, effect sizes)Python-based evaluation harness development (pytest, custom frameworks)LLM prompt engineering for automated evaluation and gradingBenchmark dataset curation, versioning, and contamination detection +8

AI Text-to-Speech Engineer

An AI Text-to-Speech (TTS) Engineer designs, trains, and deploys neural speech synthesis systems that convert text into natural, e…

Deep learning architectures for sequence-to-sequence modeling (Transformers, Tacotron, VITS, VALL-E)Neural vocoder design and training (HiFi-GAN, WaveNet, WaveRNN, BigVGAN)Speech signal processing fundamentals (spectrograms, mel-filterbanks, FFT, STFT)Prosody modeling - intonation, rhythm, stress, and emotional expression control +8

AI Developer Experience Engineer

An AI Developer Experience Engineer designs, builds, and optimizes the tools, SDKs, APIs, documentation, and workflows that enable…

API and SDK design for AI services (REST, gRPC, streaming endpoints)Technical documentation authoring (tutorials, cookbooks, API references, migration guides)Proficiency in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript for AI SDK consumption and sample codeLLM application architecture (RAG, agents, function calling, fine-tuning workflows) +8

Prompt Engineer

Prompt Engineers design, test, and optimize natural-language instructions that control large language models (LLMs) and multimodal…

Salary $90,000-$210,000/yr

LLM behavior analysis - understanding how models interpret instructions, context, and constraintsPrompt pattern design - zero-shot, few-shot, chain-of-thought, ReAct, tree-of-thought, and self-consistency techniquesRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture - chunking strategies, embedding selection, and context injectionEvaluation and benchmarking - building scoring rubrics, automated evals, and human-in-the-loop testing +8

AI Personal AI Assistant Developer

An AI Personal AI Assistant Developer designs, builds, and maintains sophisticated, deeply personalized AI-powered assistants for …

Salary $95,000-$160,000/yr

Advanced Python ProgrammingLLM API Integration (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)Prompt Engineering & System DesignConversational AI Architecture +6

AI Workflow Reliability Engineer

An AI Workflow Reliability Engineer ensures that AI-powered systems, from data ingestion to model serving, operate consistently, e…

Salary $120,000-$180,000/yr

Observability & Monitoring (metrics, logs, traces)Incident Response & Root Cause Analysis (RCA)Chaos Engineering & Resilience TestingContainer Orchestration (Kubernetes) +6

AI PromptOps Engineer

An AI PromptOps Engineer designs, versions, monitors, and optimizes prompt pipelines for production LLM applications at scale, bri…

Prompt design patterns (chain-of-thought, few-shot, ReAct, structured output)LLM API integration and parameter tuning across providersPrompt versioning, templating, and lifecycle managementAutomated evaluation pipeline design (accuracy, faithfulness, toxicity metrics) +8

AI Testing Engineer

The AI Testing Engineer ensures the reliability, safety, and performance of AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs) …

Salary $95,000-$155,000/yr

Traditional Software Testing MethodologiesPrompt Engineering and EvaluationAI/ML Evaluation Framework Design (e.g., RAGAS, DeepEval)Python Scripting & Test Automation +7

AI System Prompt Engineer

An AI System Prompt Engineer designs, architects, and optimizes the foundational prompts and instruction sets that define how larg…

System Prompt Architecture DesignFew-Shot and Chain-of-Thought PromptingContext Window Optimization and ManagementStructured Output and JSON Schema Engineering +8

AI Embedding Systems Engineer

An AI Embedding Systems Engineer designs, builds, and optimizes the infrastructure that transforms unstructured data (text, images…

Embedding Model Selection & Fine-TuningVector Database Architecture & Administration (Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus)High-Throughput Data Pipeline Design (Airflow, Spark, Kafka)Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) Algorithm Implementation & Tuning +8

AI Tool Use Systems Engineer

An AI Tool Use Systems Engineer architects, builds, and maintains the complex systems that allow organizations to reliably leverag…

Salary $140,000-$220,000/yr

Multi-Agent System Design & OrchestrationAdvanced Prompt Engineering & Chain-of-Thought DesignAPI & Tool Integration (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)System Architecture for Non-Deterministic Systems +6

AI Structured Output Engineer

An AI Structured Output Engineer designs, validates, and optimizes pipelines that transform raw LLM responses into reliable, schem…

JSON Schema design and validation (draft 2020-12, OpenAPI-compatible schemas)Pydantic v2 data modeling with strict mode, discriminated unions, and custom validatorsPrompt engineering specifically for structured extraction and constrained generationLLM function calling and tool-use architecture (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini) +8

AI Model Serving Engineer

An AI Model Serving Engineer specializes in deploying, scaling, and maintaining machine learning models in production environments…

Salary $120,000-$220,000/yr

Model Serialization & Format Conversion (ONNX, TorchScript)Serving Frameworks (TensorFlow Serving, TorchServe, NVIDIA Triton)Containerization & Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)Performance Optimization (Quantization, Pruning, Batching) +8

AI Logging & Monitoring Engineer

An AI Logging & Monitoring Engineer designs, implements, and maintains the critical observability infrastructure for AI/ML systems…

Salary $105,000-$180,000/yr

Designing and implementing centralized logging architecturesMastery of the Observability Triad: Logs, Metrics, and TracesUnderstanding of AI/ML model lifecycle and failure modesProficiency with cloud-native monitoring services (AWS, GCP, Azure) +6

AI Quantization Engineer

An AI Quantization Engineer specializes in compressing and optimizing large, computationally expensive AI models for efficient dep…

Salary $85,000-$185,000/yr

Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) techniquesQuantization-Aware Training (QAT)Model Pruning and SparsityKnowledge Distillation +8

AI Output Filtering Engineer

The AI Output Filtering Engineer is a critical role responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining systems that ensure A…

Salary $95,000-$165,000/yr

Content Safety & Policy DesignPrompt Engineering & Adversarial TestingAI/ML Fundamentals (especially LLMs)API Integration & Pipeline Development +6

AI Speech Recognition Engineer

An AI Speech Recognition Engineer designs, builds, and optimizes systems that convert spoken language into text and actionable dat…

Deep Learning (PyTorch/TensorFlow)Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) theory (CTC, RNN-T, AED)Signal Processing & Audio Feature Extraction (MFCCs, Spectrograms)Natural Language Processing (NLP) for language modeling +6