AI Engineer

About the role

• Job Title: AI Engineer
• Location: New York, NY, Atlanta, GA, or Remote, USA
• Exemption Status: Full-time, exempt

Job Summary

We're seeking a highly technical and hands-on AI Engineer to join our growing team. This role will work across internal AI tooling, our internal AI platform, and AI capabilities within existing products, helping bring practical AI solutions into production across the organization.

You'll contribute to a range of applied AI initiatives, from improving existing products and workflows to developing new AI-powered capabilities where appropriate. The scope may include prompt and context engineering, AI security, AI DevOps and hosting, evaluation frameworks, harnesses, benchmarks, and production deployment.

We're looking for someone who is deeply technical, passionate about AI development, and eager to grow with us as we scale.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve internal AI tooling, platform capabilities, and AI-enabled product functionality, including integrating AI capabilities and APIs into existing products as needed
• Build LLM-powered solutions using prompt engineering, context engineering, RAG, agentic workflows, and generative AI
• Create and maintain AI harnesses, evals, benchmarks, and testing frameworks to measure quality, reliability, and performance
• Apply ML algorithms such as linear regression, logistic regression, tree-based methods, and neural networks where applicable
• Contribute to secure, scalable AI architecture, infrastructure, DevOps, hosting, and system optimization leveraging AWS services
• Work cross-functionally with product, data engineering, and software engineering teams to align AI initiatives with business needs
• Stay current with emerging AI technologies, contribute to engineering best practices, and mentor junior engineers as the team grow

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related STEM field
• 3+ years of backend software development experience, with strong AI/ML focus
• Experience with generative AI technologies, including prompt engineering and API integrations
• Solid understanding of ML algorithms (regression models, tree-based algorithms, neural networks)
• Proficiency with AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, networking fundamentals)
• Strong foundation in general computer engineering and networking principles

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with AI research projects (e.g., public health AI applications, LLM fine-tuning)
• Background in computer architecture (CUDA, GPU parallelization, compute optimization)
• Familiarity with healthcare data is a plus, but not required
• Experience working in high-growth tech companies or research labs

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this role is $130,000 - $170,000.

Where you land within the range will reflect your skills, experience, and location, while keeping team parity in mind and leaving room for future growth.

Important Notice

To protect candidates, please note that all communication from our team will come directly from an @impiricus.com email address. We do not engage third party recruiters to schedule interviews for this role. If you receive outreach from anyone outside of our domain claiming to represent Impiricus, please disregard and let us know by forwarding the message to

Benefits

• Impiricus focuses on taking care of our teammates' professional and personal growth and well-being.
• Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents + on-demand healthcare concierge
• HSA, FSA & DCFSA: Pre-tax savings options for healthcare and dependent care, with monthly employer contributions to HSA (if enrolled in a high-deductible plan)
• Coverage & Protection: 100% paid short- and long-term disability, plus life and AD&D insurance
• Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need with a flexible vacation policy - recharge your batteries your way
• Parental Leave: Paid parental leave to spend time with your newborn, adopted, or foster child (available after 6 months)
• Your Work, Your Way: If you're close to an office, we encourage spending some time in-person to collaborate and connect. If not, remote is always an option.
• Home Office Setup: We'll ship you the gear you need to create a comfortable workspace at home.
• 401(k): Save for your future with tax advantages (and company match!)