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Senior AI Engineer
TechHeads - USAPosted 1 weeks ago
About this role
Senior AI Engineer
Remote (Ireland Based) | 12-Month Contract | US Product Engineering Team
TechHeads has partnered with an innovative US technology organisation seeking a Senior AI Engineer to support the development of next-generation AI-powered product capabilities and platform enhancements.
This role will focus on designing, building, and deploying production-grade AI solutions across customer-facing products, internal tooling, and automation initiatives. The successful candidate will work closely with US-based engineering and product teams to integrate modern AI technologies into scalable SaaS environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy AI-powered product features and services
- Develop and optimise LLM-driven applications and workflows
- Build scalable backend services supporting AI functionality
- Integrate AI models and APIs into existing product ecosystems
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Leadership teams to identify AI opportunities
- Develop retrieval, prompt engineering, and agent-based workflows
- Improve model performance, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency
- Contribute to AI architecture and platform design decisions
- Build evaluation frameworks and testing strategies for AI systems
- Collaborate across distributed US and European engineering teams
Required Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- 2+ years working directly with AI/ML or Generative AI technologies
- Strong Python development experience
- Experience building applications using modern LLM frameworks and APIs
- Experience integrating AI solutions into production environments
- Strong understanding of API development and backend systems
- Experience with vector databases, embeddings, or retrieval systems
- Strong problem-solving and systems design capability
Desirable Experience
- Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or open-source LLMs
- Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, DSPy, or agent frameworks
- Experience fine-tuning or evaluating AI models
- Exposure to MLOps and model deployment pipelines
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or scalable infrastructure
- Experience building AI copilots, assistants, or workflow automation systems
Technical Environment
- Python
- FastAPI / Flask
- OpenAI / Anthropic APIs
- LangChain / LlamaIndex
- Vector Databases
- PostgreSQL / NoSQL Databases
- AWS / Azure / GCP
- Docker / Kubernetes
- CI/CD Pipelines
- GitHub
Contract Details
- 12-Month Initial Contract
- Fully Remote (Ireland Based)
- Competitive Daily Rate
- Long-term extension potential
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI initiatives
- Strong overlap with US East Coast working hours preferred