Senior Applied AI Engineer
Senior engineer who builds and ships production-grade agentic AI products end to end at Ozmo — designing agent architectures (LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, PydanticAI), MCP/agent infrastructure, RAG knowledge systems, and evaluation/observability, with expert Python and cloud-native (Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP) skills. Remote within approved US states only.
- Compensation
- $180K / yr
- Location
- Remote (United States)
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Ai engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with substantial experience building and operating production SaaS
- 2+ years of hands-on production LLM/agent experience, with systems shipped to real users
- Track record of taking AI products from prototype through pilot into production
- Practical experience using AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Gemini CLI in day-to-day development
- Deep hands-on experience building agentic systems: tool use, orchestration, planning, multi-agent workflows, human-in-the-loop
- Strong understanding of AI infrastructure: MCP, agent gateways, skills, memory, evaluation, observability, interoperability
- Strong knowledge of RAG and knowledge systems: hybrid retrieval, vector + graph databases, metadata, taxonomy/ontology, retrieval evaluation
- Strong enterprise engineering fundamentals: multi-tenancy, security, authorization, auditability, reliability, distributed systems
- Production cloud-native experience: Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, Docker, AWS/Azure/GCP
- Expert-level Python and strong software architecture skills (API design, data modeling, testing, performance, distributed systems)
- Exceptional technical judgment and communication; ability to explain non-deterministic AI behavior and mentor engineers
- Must reside in one of the approved states: AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, IL, NC, NJ, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI
- Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. (no visa sponsorship)
Full description
What you will do:
- Build and ship production-grade agentic AI products that solve real, mission-critical enterprise problems.
- Own the full product lifecycle from discovery and prototyping through customer pilots, GA, and ongoing iteration.
- Design agentic architectures with LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, PydanticAI, or equivalent: planning, decomposition, tool use, multi-step workflows, memory, state management, self-correction, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
- Build the agent infrastructure layer including MCP servers/tools, skills, agent gateways, and agent-to-agent communication.
- Build the knowledge and retrieval layer including RAG, hybrid graph/vector retrieval, taxonomy, ontology, metadata, provenance, and content lifecycle management.
- Design for enterprise-grade security and trust, including authorization, tenant isolation, auditability, guardrails, prompt-injection protection, and controlled tool access.
- Build rigorous evaluation and observability systems that measure task success, quality, latency, cost, drift, and reliability. Use them to catch regressions before release and monitor performance in production.
- Make sound architectural tradeoffs about when to use agents versus deterministic software, balancing accuracy, reliability, latency, complexity, and cost.
- Own systems in production end-to-end, including deployment, monitoring, incident response, performance, reliability, and cost.
- Create reusable patterns and tooling, mentor other engineers, and help establish how Ozmo builds with AI.
What you will bring to the role:
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with substantial experience building and operating production SaaS.
- 2+ years of hands-on production LLM/agent experience, with demonstrated systems shipped to real users.
- Proven track record of taking AI products from prototype through pilot and into production, ideally in customer-facing environments.
- Practical experience using AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or similar tools as part of your day-to-day development.
- Deep hands-on experience building agentic systems, including tool use, orchestration, planning, multi-agent workflows, and human-in-the-loop systems.
- Strong understanding of AI infrastructure, particularly MCP, agent gateways, skills, memory, evaluation, observability, and interoperability.
- Strong knowledge of RAG and knowledge systems, including hybrid retrieval, vector + graph databases, metadata, taxonomy/ontology, and retrieval evaluation.
- Strong enterprise engineering fundamentals, including multi-tenancy, security, authorization, auditability, reliability, and distributed systems.
- Production cloud-native experience, including Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, Docker, and AWS/Azure/GCP.