AI Engineer

Join Tempus Unlimited as an AI Engineer supporting in-house AI systems that are built for production use at scale. This role combines model development with LLM application engineering, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, and up-to-date infrastructure.

Location: Stoughton, MA (remote)
Remote states: Massachusetts (MA), Florida (FL), Ohio (OH), Pennsylvania (PA)
Pay: USD 100,000 - 140,000 per year

What you’ll do

• Design and build LLM-powered applications, APIs, and agentic pipelines
• Integrate AI models into production systems with system and network administrators using REST APIs and SDKs
• Develop RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems and semantic search features
• Fine-tune foundation models for specific use cases
• Develop, train, evaluate, and iterate on ML models using real-world datasets, while contributing to and maintaining system standards
• Run track metrics and benchmarks to monitor model performance
• Optimize and quantize models to balance latency and accuracy in production
• Build and maintain data pipelines that feed AI models
• Set up monitoring, alerting, and logging for model health and drift
• Translate business problems into AI/ML solution designs in collaboration with managers and system administrators
• Research and evaluate new models, frameworks, and tools
• Document architecture experiments and decisions
• Research and recommend innovative approaches for automating system administration tasks and enabling economies of scale
• Repair and recover from hardware or software failures, coordinating and communicating with impacted constituencies
• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning
• Analyze system logs to identify potential issues and conduct routine audits of systems and software

Required skills and experience

• Minimum education: High School Degree (or equivalent) with relevant experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• Familiar with Python, SQL, ETL pipelines, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LlamaIndex, and LangGraph
• Problem solving and analytic skills
• Ability to stay up to date on new systems and AI technologies
• Ability to work independently, adjust quickly to changing environments, and work with limited direction and minimal oversight
• Experience working in a 24/7 uptime environment
• Ability to train other staff
• Ability to maintain documentation on all systems related to AI
• Ability to work across small teams in and outside the IT department with shared responsibility
• Team player, motivated, and detail oriented

Core hours and environment

• Core hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:30pm
• After hours: Possible depending on project need
• Work environment: Professional office environment using standard office equipment
• Travel: Not required

Benefits

• Sign on bonus
• Work/Life Balance
• Paid time off: 25 days per year for full time staff
• 14 paid holidays
• Tempus Wellness: Medical, Dental, Dependent Care Reimbursement, FSA, and HSA
• Basic Life, Short Term, and Long-Term Disability
• On-site gym (Stoughton Location) and wellness initiatives
• Annual Reviews with merit-based increases
• Employee Recognition Program
• Financial Wellness: 403(b) Retirement Plan with matching
• Continuing Education, Training and Advancement opportunities

Security and authorization

All offers are contingent upon satisfactory background check results, conducted in compliance with state and federal regulations. Background checks may also be performed for current employees to ensure ongoing compliance with program, state, and federal requirements.