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Applied AI Engineer
Location
Texas
Posted
7 days ago
Salary
$160K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Applied AI Engineer
Homeward
• Have an immediate impact on how Homeward builds with AI. • Design, build, and maintain AI-powered features in our products, including LLM API integrations, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and AI-driven automation across our customer, agent, and operations tools. • Understand and communicate requirements and • Build and improve shared tooling and reusable components that make it easier for teams across tech to access, integrate, and operate LLMs in production. • Contribute to the tooling we use to keep AI features reliable - observability, monitoring, evaluation, and prompt and context management - so we can measure and debug them with confidence. • Take on hard, ambiguous problems that can be solved leveraging LLMs and ML to solve real business problems, then help others learn how to solve similar problems. • Prototype solutions quickly, then work with peers and senior engineers to harden them into something we can ship and maintain. • Help shape the patterns and practices for building with AI at Homeward, and make the right way the easy way for the rest of the team. • Evaluate new models, tools, and approaches, recommend what's worth adopting, and help others adopt it. • Use AI coding assistants (Claude, Copilot) as a natural part of your daily workflow, and help the team get more out of them. • Write automated unit and integration tests to support our CI pipelines, and participate in code reviews. • Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Data to make sure what we build is useful, well-documented, and easy to adopt.
Job Requirements
- 4-6 years of professional back-end development experience, ideally in a fast-moving environment.
- Hands-on experience building or operating AI/ML systems in production, and a real interest in the practical side of it - reliability, performance, cost, and safety.
- Production experience with LLM APIs, including prompt design and context management.
- Strong experience with Python and a back-end framework such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
- Solid grounding in web development best practices - REST APIs, asynchronous task management, and sound data management.
- Good judgment on the trade-offs between reliability, latency, cost, quality, and maintainability, and the willingness to make the call.
- Incredibly strong ownership of delivering the right solutions at a high quality.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to make complex things clear to others.
- A build, test, learn mindset with a bias toward action and a focus on business outcomes.
- Scrappy and flexible - from updating an email template to building a complex web app, you do what the team needs and you're eager to learn along the way.
- General curiosity and comfort navigating a fast-changing AI landscape.
- Working knowledge of version control and CI/CD tools.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage – with company contributions towards premiums.
- Meaningful time off – including 20 days of paid vacation, 5 sick days, 12 company holidays, and 2 floating holidays.
- Generous paid parental leave of up to 13 weeks.
- 401(k) with employer contribution match.
- Remote-first work environment (our headquarters are in Austin, TX).
- Collaborative, low-ego team that values intellectual curiosity and continuous improvement.
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