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$110,000–$130,000/yr
US

  • Build speech and text pipelines, LLM workflows, and integrations the client runs on.
  • Deploy to the client's cloud, instrument what you ship, and fix what breaks.
  • Write the tests, evals, and docs that keep it working after the engagement ends.

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$180,000–$200,000/yr
US

  • Own client engagements end to end, from sitting with the people doing the work to deciding what to build and shipping production systems.
  • Build pipelines over speech, text, and event data, LLM-backed workflows with human review, and integrations with CRMs, telephony, and data warehouses.
  • Ensure reliability, observability, and security after launch, own what happens at 2 a.m., and teach the client's team to operate what you built.

Lunon is an AI transformation consultancy headquartered in New York City, embedding engineers into client businesses to turn AI into working production software. They are a small, fast-moving team that stays until the solution runs without them.

US

  • Design and deploy AI agents that automate sales, operations, and support workflows.
  • Own technical delivery end-to-end, from architecture to production and post-launch improvements.
  • Work directly with clients to understand workflows and explain technical tradeoffs.

Stello is an AI transformation firm that partners with mid-market and enterprise companies to automate repetitive work with AI agents. They work across sales, operations, and customer support, deploying solutions inside existing client tools.

  • Own AI agents and autonomous workflows powered by LLMs from problem framing through production.
  • Build RAG pipelines, set evaluation and guardrail standards, and optimize for cost and scalability.
  • Work directly with client teams to scope problems and deploy AI systems in their environments.

Acceler is a Forward-Deployed Engineer company that takes AI from pilot to production inside client systems. With a practitioner network of nearly 1,000 engineers across the US and India, it's a high-caliber team built on ownership, trust, and rapid learning.

US

  • Build AI-powered agents and tools end-to-end: identify problems with clients, prototype quickly, evaluate rigorously, and ship to production.
  • Design and implement LLM integrations including prompt engineering, function calling, structured outputs, and retrieval-augmented workflows.
  • Work directly with clients to understand workflows, validate AI behavior, and iterate toward production quality.

Addepar is a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. With over 1,500 firms in 60 countries and nearly $10 trillion in assets on the platform, Addepar fosters a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.

  • Architect AI infrastructure including backend services, data pipelines, and orchestration workflows for LLMs.
  • Write production-grade, high-performance code for high-throughput AI workflows and data-driven systems.
  • Integrate foundational models, vector data stores, and cloud microservices into scalable platform components.

Korza builds AI infrastructure and products, specializing in LLM and agent-based systems. The company emphasizes cross-functional collaboration and rapid shipping of cutting-edge AI capabilities.

Global

  • Build LLM-based agents on the platform's scaffolding, integrating tool calls, internal APIs, and guardrails.
  • Take agents to production on AWS with containers, CI/CD, secrets, permissions, and security controls.
  • Define and run evals, monitor with Langfuse, and document runbooks for independent operation.

Muttdata builds innovative Data Products and Machine Learning solutions to help companies solve complex business challenges. It is a fast-growing, remote-first startup that values collaboration, continuous learning, and a positive, ownership-driven culture.

  • Building multi-agent systems and implementing agent-based workflows and AI automation solutions.
  • Developing and optimizing prompt engineering strategies, including evaluation and iteration.
  • Integrating LLMs and AI models into cloud-based applications and APIs while researching new AI tools.

Software Mind develops impactful software solutions for global companies, partnering with tech giants and unicorns on transformative projects. The company builds cross-functional engineering teams and embraces a culture of openness, respect, grit, and cooperation.

AI Engineer

Jeeves
Latin America

  • Own AI workflows end to end, from problem definition to production and improvement, for finance processes like invoice-to-payment and reconciliation.
  • Design and build production-grade LLM-based systems with structured outputs, RAG, validation, and monitoring.
  • Collaborate with product, backend engineering, and customers while setting technical direction and using AI coding tools daily.

Jeeves is a stablecoin-native banking platform providing corporate cards, payments, treasury, and spend management for global enterprises. With over $5B in annualized volume and backing from top investors, the company is scaling rapidly and values relentlessness and tackling hard problems.

US Unlimited PTO 17w maternity 17w paternity

  • Build AI applications, agents, skills, connectors, and workflow automations that solve business problems.
  • Translate ambiguous business needs into AI-native workflows and own engineering from discovery to production launch.
  • Work closely with internal teams to embed AI solutions and drive measurable gains in quality, speed, and cost.

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust. With 100,000+ active communities and about 130 million daily active visitors, it is one of the internet's largest sources of information.

$105,000–$147,000/yr
US

  • Build and ship features of AI/ML and LLM-powered systems with guidance from senior engineers.
  • Implement and maintain AI/ML and AI agent pipelines from data ingestion through model deployment.
  • Contribute to LLM-powered features such as prompts, evaluations, retrieval, and tool integrations, while documenting experiments clearly.

Robots & Pencils designs AI systems for a human world, pairing engineering with creativity. Teams average fifteen-plus years of experience and value ownership, craft, direct feedback, and continuous learning.

Latin America

  • Build production Agentforce agents including topics, actions, grounding, guardrails, and evaluation harnesses.
  • Implement actions across Flow, Apex, prompt templates, and external APIs, grounding answers in Data 360.
  • Design guardrails against prompt injection and data leakage, and run evaluation and regression tests before changes.

AspenView Technology Partners builds high-performing nearshore IT teams for North American clients, focusing on innovation and efficiency. They are a people-first, purpose-driven company that believes great culture drives great outcomes.

$157,500–$185,000/yr
US

  • Build at the customer site: write production-quality agents, integrations, and data pipelines on Redpanda ADP inside the customer’s environment and codebase.
  • Work in unfamiliar territory fast: ramp quickly in new codebases, data environments, and constraints.
  • Own the technical deliverable from design to handoff, ensuring it is documented, maintainable, and running in production.

Redpanda is the first runtime and control plane for agent-data interaction, combining streaming, SQL analytics, and intelligent connectivity with governance for enterprise AI agents. It is a fast-moving, diverse, people-first organization with team members around the globe, trusted by Fortune 500 companies and startups.

Global

  • Develop and deploy cutting-edge AI/ML solutions to enhance the platform and improve student learning experiences.
  • Design, develop, and optimize LLM-powered agentic systems and APIs for real product use cases.
  • Collaborate with senior engineers and contribute to evaluation frameworks and MLOps pipelines.

Interview Kickstart specializes in interview preparation and career transitions into high-demand tech fields like AI, ML, and Data Science. Over 17,000 tech professionals have been guided by current and former hiring managers to land coveted positions at companies like Google and Amazon.

$70,200–$102,600/yr
France

  • Own technical deployments of fonio's AI phone agents for the French market.
  • Translate customer requirements into production-ready implementations and integrations.
  • Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Go-to-Market for fast, stable rollouts.

Fonio is Europe’s market leader for AI phone agents for small and medium businesses. They grew from $1M to $10M ARR in under 12 months, serve 10,000+ customers, and foster a fast-moving, direct, and ownership-driven culture.

US

  • Own customer deployments end to end, working directly with customers to turn business problems into software.
  • Build automated, normalized pipelines on top of messy real-world supply chain data and shape optimization logic and models.
  • Wire Atomic into customer systems and partner platforms while building interfaces and AI features for plan analysis.

Atomic is rebuilding the brain behind the American supply chain with an AI-native stack, delivering operations optimization for customers. We're looking for first-principles thinkers who want to write code that drives the physical world and work directly with customers who run it.

India

  • Build new functionality within a fast-moving product, taking ambiguous ideas from design to rigorous experimentation within weeks.
  • Conduct deep-dive research into state-of-the-art LLM orchestration, retrieval strategies, and data-driven personalization.
  • Build production-grade ML systems at Twilio scale, leveraging the latest AI development stacks to focus on core differentiation.

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that enables businesses to create personalized customer experiences through APIs and AI-driven solutions. The company is remote-first, serving hundreds of thousands of businesses, and fosters a culture of connection, inclusion, and innovation.

$185,000–$320,000/yr
US 4w PTO

  • Build evaluations to measure and improve AI reasoning in complex, high-stakes decisions.
  • Collaborate with engineers, product, and domain experts to turn observed failures into testable improvements.
  • Own the quality of shipped systems, from code reviews to monitoring and integration.

Elicit builds AI systems that help research and business teams make evidence-based decisions on high-stakes questions. They are a remote-friendly, collaborative team that values rigorous thinking, experimentation, and in-person retreats.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Implement embeddings, vector storage, and retrieval across a large, provenance-tracked evidence base.
  • Integrate language models so generated text is bound to cited source records, and test for citation failures.
  • Own prompt and output-schema design, model packaging, versioning, serving, and rollback.

DEFCON AI is an insights company that leverages artificial intelligence, mathematical optimization, data analytics, and software engineering to build resilient optimization systems for complex operations. The company offers a fully remote, results-based environment with a focus on production systems and a strong benefits package.

$111,000–$180,000/yr
US

  • Own the hardest customer problems end-to-end, driving ambiguous challenges from prototype to production.
  • Design and deploy AI-powered workflows with appropriate controls for regulated environments.
  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor and contribute to a compounding knowledge base.

Workiva provides an AI-powered platform that unifies finance, risk, and sustainability on a single secure foundation. The company values meaningful challenges, collaborative teams, and helping organizations turn uncertainty into advantage.

AI Engineer

Sibill
$64,800–$86,400/yr
Italy

  • Build and ship production AI systems for the core finance workflows.
  • Own evals: metrics, test datasets, and monitoring of quality, cost, and latency.
  • Iterate end-to-end on AI products, from data pipelines to deployment.

Sibill is an AI-powered platform that unifies invoicing, payments, treasury, and accounting for SMEs and accountants in Italy. Backed by €12M from Creandum, the company serves over 5,000 businesses and 300+ firms with a team of over 130 people.