Senior AI Engineer
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Job Description
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Design end-to-end AI integration architectures connecting LLM APIs, vector databases, and inference systems to existing backend infrastructure.
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Build reusable ML infrastructure components like feature pipelines, model serving layers, and evaluation frameworks that multiple portfolio companies standardize on.
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Establish AI system integration best practices and governance patterns that become repeatable playbooks across the holding company.
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Own system design reviews for AI initiatives across portfolio companies, identifying bottlenecks and recommending architectural improvements.
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Optimize production AI systems for cost and latency by profiling pipelines, implementing compression, and right-sizing compute infrastructure.
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Mentor engineers at portfolio companies on production AI best practices, reproducibility, monitoring, and safe deployment patterns.