Applied AI Engineer
Location
California
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
$140K - $200K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Applied AI Engineer
Parallel Partners
• Build AI-powered product features integrated into real insurance workflows. • Design and optimize LLM-based interactions across customer and internal systems. • Develop prompts, reasoning flows, and structured AI outputs for production use cases. • Evaluate model performance using real-world data, feedback loops, and experiments. • Improve reliability of AI outputs through guardrails, fallback logic, and validation layers. • Work closely with backend engineers to integrate AI capabilities into APIs and workflows. • Design and implement AI-driven automation features (chat, recommendations, decision support). • Analyze user behavior and model responses to continuously improve AI performance. • Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to ship end-to-end AI features. • Contribute to AI system design decisions focused on usability and real-world impact.
Job Requirements
- Strong software engineering background in production environments.
- Experience working with LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source models).
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, structured outputs, and tool use patterns.
- Experience building or integrating AI features into real products.
- Strong understanding of API-based system integration.
- Ability to evaluate AI outputs critically using data and user feedback.
- Experience with experimentation, A/B testing, or evaluation frameworks.
- Strong product sense and focus on user experience.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, globally distributed teams.
Benefits
- medical insurance
- Dental
- Vision
- Savings Plan Options
- PTO
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