- Company Name
- IFS
- Job Title
- AI Engineer - Nexus Black
- Job Description
-
**Job title:** AI Engineer – Nexus Black
**Role Summary:**
Design, prototype, and ship AI agents and guided workflows that resolve customer challenges, scaling them from proof‑of‑concept to production service. Lead end‑to‑end development, integrate with cloud‑native back‑end services, and maintain evaluation loops to optimize quality and safety.
**Expectations:**
* Deliver rapid prototypes and iterate quickly with real user data.
* Own the path from idea through to reliable production deployment.
* Operate with high autonomy, collaborating closely across product, design, data engineering, and customer teams.
* Communicate insights, define success metrics, and translate business problems into technical solutions.
**Key Responsibilities:**
* Rapidly prototype AI agents and guided workflows, ship incremental versions, instrument, and iterate based on usage.
* Design and implement cloud‑native services orchestrating prompts, tools, retrieval, and automations; drive POC to production.
* Build retrieval pipelines for LLMs, including search/vector integration, context assembly, and tool selection in partnership with data engineering.
* Establish evaluation loops (offline/online tests, golden sets, regression checks, human‑in‑the‑loop review) to improve quality and safety.
* Contribute to developer experience: reusable agents/tools, SDKs, templates, and internal documentation.
* Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to frame problems, set success metrics, and translate insights into productizable solutions.
* Lead design discussions, conduct code reviews, mentor teammates, and maintain momentum.
**Required Skills:**
* 4–8+ years software/AI engineering with a track record of shipping 0‑>1 products.
* Strong Python (proficient); comfortable with TypeScript.
* Experience taking LLM/agent systems to production (tooling, function calling, planning/execution, retrieval‑augmented generation).
* Hands‑on with evaluation (offline/online), prompt engineering, tracing, and observability for AI systems.
* Familiarity with vector databases/search, embeddings, and context/retrieval patterns.
* Solid backend fundamentals: services, queues, data models, CI/CD, cloud.
* Excellent communication, product sense, prioritization, and ability to ship small, safe increments.
* Nice‑to‑have: open‑source contributions, hackathon wins, side projects, experience in both start‑up and large‑scale environments.
**Required Education & Certifications:**
* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
* No specific certifications required.
Colorado springs, United states
Hybrid
23-02-2026