Senior AI Workflow & Systems Engineer
$70,000–$120,000 year
RemoteLos Angeles, California, United States
Job Summary
Build and deploy LLM-powered applications and agent-based workflows that eliminate manual effort across the company, integrating them via REST APIs, webhooks, and custom integrations. Own the deployment and management of these systems on Vercel and cloud platforms, ensuring resilience through logging, error handling, and monitoring. Serve as the go-to technical resource for teams building AI tools, debugging blockers, and translating business needs into actionable solutions. Proactively audit systems for inefficiencies, prototype emerging frameworks, and step in to own end-to-end initiatives when no dedicated PM exists.
Required Qualifications
- 4–6+ years in software engineering, DevOps, or systems engineering
- hands-on AI/ML experience
- Strong foundation as a software, systems, or DevOps engineer who has grown into AI
- Proven experience deploying and managing production applications on Vercel, AWS, GCP, or equivalent
- Hands-on with LLMs, generative AI, and orchestration tools (n8n, Make, Zapier, LangChain, or equivalent)
- Proven REST API integration experience with solid edge-case handling
- Experience building or maintaining cloud-based agents and serverless infrastructure
- Strong Python and/or JavaScript/Node.js
- Solid understanding of deployment pipelines, CI/CD, environment management, and secrets handling
- Experience with vector databases and embedding-based retrieval
- Comfortable with cloud infrastructure (AWS and/or GCP) and cloud-native application patterns
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting for production systems
- Highly autonomous — identifies problems and ships solutions without waiting to be asked
- Effective communicator across technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong product instincts: can step into ownership of an initiative when there's no PM in the room
- Calm under pressure; reliable when other teams are blocked and need answers fast
- Comfortable working across many different teams and problem domains simultaneously
- Remote
- Los Angeles based preferred
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with AI agent frameworks
- Background in high-volume performance advertising, media, or creative production
- Experience with AI in a production context
- Multi-step agentic pipeline design or large-scale workflow orchestration
- Experience with data pipelines or BI tooling
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