AI Engineer

Ledgent Technology seeks an AI Engineer (Remote) in Los Angeles, CA to build and deploy AI-powered solutions that automate workflows and improve operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Identify and evaluate business workflows that are suitable for AI-driven automation.
• Design, build, and deploy end-to-end AI agents to automate operational tasks.
• Create user-facing applications and interfaces so AI outputs are accessible and trustworthy.
• Define success criteria and implement testing frameworks to evaluate AI performance.
• Continuously monitor and improve AI systems across accuracy, reliability, cost, and response times.
• Collaborate with data teams to ensure agents are grounded in trusted, high-quality data.
• Establish and maintain data access, security, and governance controls.
• Document system functionality, capabilities, and performance metrics.

Requirements

• 1 to 2 years of experience building and deploying AI/LLM-powered applications in production environments.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, version control, and code reviews.
• Experience developing customer-facing or internal business applications.
• Proficiency with SQL and working with large-scale data environments.
• Knowledge of AI agent architectures, retrieval systems, grounding techniques, and evaluation methodologies.
• Experience measuring, analyzing, and improving AI system performance and reliability.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with both technical and business teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Technologies

• SQL
• AI/LLM-powered applications
• Retrieval systems
• Grounding techniques
• Evaluation methodologies
• Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• Vector databases
• Semantic search

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI agent frameworks, model APIs, and tool-calling architectures.
• Familiarity with AI evaluation, monitoring, and observability platforms.
• Knowledge of semantic search, vector databases, and RAG.
• Experience optimizing inference costs and application performance.
• Understanding of AI governance, data privacy, and access controls.

Compensation

• $120,000 - $180,000 per year + benefits

Location: Los Angeles, CA (remote)