Senior AI Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Rapidly design, develop, and ship proof-of-concept AI applications; gather feedback and refine models and interfaces.
• Build and integrate MCP clients and servers, foundation model fine-tuning, and multi-agent orchestration frameworks.
• Take features from concept to production, including data-flow architecture, code, containerization, and secure cloud deployment.
• Work with product, design, engineering, and data science partners to build scalable solutions to business problems.
• Develop production-grade data pipelines connecting data to and from AI systems.
• Maintain development tools, CI/CD scripts, evaluation harnesses, dashboards, and secure sandboxes.
• Ensure systems are monitored, explainable, and meet ethical, regulatory, and performance standards.
• Evaluate emerging AI/ML and open-source tools and share best practices.

Qualifications

• Strong software development skills in Python.
• Experience with libraries such as LangChain/LangGraph, Agent SDKs, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy/Alembic, or PySpark/Polars/Pandas.
• Experience with tracing systems, RAG, memory systems, MCP servers, agent skills, and model tradeoffs.
• Strong understanding of AI tools for rapid development, such as Cursor or Claude Code.
• Familiarity with Docker, cloud deployment (AWS preferred), and GitHub Actions.
• Demonstrated ability to ship high-quality, production-ready AI/ML systems on tight iteration cycles.
• Excellent communication and ability to work in cross-functional, mission-driven teams.
• Interest in complex, high-impact problems, especially in high-stakes or regulated domains.
• A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.

About Kharon

Compensation

• Base salary range is $160,000–$200,000 per year; the package may also include bonuses, commissions, benefits, or equity.

Benefits

• Benefits include sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance, an FSA, long-term disability, a matching 401(k) with immediate vesting, flexible paid time off, and 11 paid holidays.