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Sr. Applied AI Engineer

United States

AssetWatch serves global manufacturers by powering manufacturing uptime through the delivery of an unparalleled condition monitoring experience, with a passion to care about the assets our customers care for every day. We are a devoted and capable team that includes world-renowned engineers and distinguished business leaders united by a common goal – To build the future of predictive maintenance. As we enter the next phase of rapid growth, we are seeking people to help lead the journey. 

We are hiring a Senior Applied AI Engineer to design and build reusable AI systems that accelerate innovation across the organization. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on rapidly prototyping LLM and agent-based workflows, architecting clean and reusable patterns, and partnering closely with our specialty data science team and Head of AI. 

You will translate strategy and ideas into structured, modular systems that can be handed off to production engineering teams or integrated via well-defined APIs.  

We expect end-to-end ownership, pragmatic tradeoffs, and a bias for action. 

 

Key Responsibilities 

AI Prototyping & Workflow Development 

  • Design and build end-to-end LLM-powered workflows, including RAG pipelines, tool-calling systems, and agent architectures 
  • Rapidly prototype internal AI assistants and automation tools across business functions 
  • Integrate data science models into agent-based workflows 
  • Translate ambiguous ideas into practical, working systems 

Reusable Architecture & Enablement 

  • Develop shared connectors to major LLM providers and internal data sources 
  • Create reusable agent templates and AI development patterns 
  • Design modular systems with clean API boundaries for production handoff 
  • Implement lightweight evaluation, logging, and tracing patterns appropriate for internal deployment 

Cross-Functional Collaboration 

  • Partner deeply with specialty data science teams to operationalize models 
  • Work closely with the Head of AI to shape technical direction and AI strategy 
  • Communicate architectural decisions and tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders 

 

Qualifications 

Education 

  • BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field required; MS/PhD preferred but not required if experience demonstrates equivalent capability. 

Technical & professional experience  

  • 6+ years of professional software or machine learning engineering experience building backend or distributed systems 
  • Strong proficiency in Python, including experience building modular, testable, and well-structured codebases.  
  • Proficiency in SQL expected, including intermediate querying and basic ETL jobs 
  • Hands-on experience developing LLM-powered applications, including RAG pipelines, prompt orchestration, structured outputs, and tool-calling workflows 
  • Experience working with vector databases and designing retrieval strategies 
  • Experience designing and exposing RESTful or event-driven APIs for internal or external consumption 
  • Familiarity with agent frameworks or orchestration libraries (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or similar) 
  • Experience integrating ML or statistical model outputs into production-oriented systems 
  • Understanding of evaluation concepts for LLM systems (prompt versioning, offline evals, feedback loops, or guardrails) 
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and driving initiatives end-to-end with minimal oversight 

Preferred  

  • Worked in rapid prototyping and deployment ecosystems 
  • Experience building internal AI tooling, SDKs, or developer enablement frameworks 
  • Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS preferred), containerization (Docker), and basic deployment patterns 
  • Experience working with streaming or ETL pipelines for ingesting structured and unstructured data 
  • Exposure to observability practices (logging, tracing, metrics) in application systems 
  • Experience handing off prototypes to production engineering teams in a clean, scalable manner 

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What We Offer: 

AssetWatch is a remote-first company that puts people at the center of everything we do. We want our team members to thrive - that’s why we offer a range of benefits and perks designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance. 

  • Competitive compensation package including stock options 
  • Flexible work schedule 
  • Comprehensive benefits including retirement plan match 
  • Opportunity to make a real impact every day 
  • Work with a dynamic and growing team 
  • Unlimited PTO 

We have a distributed team that works remotely across locations in the United States and Ontario, Canada. Collaboration within core working hours is required. 

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