Senior AI Solutions Engineer, Data Science, Penguin Random House (Open to Remote)

Job Description

Specific Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate LLM-powered applications and services over catalog, sales, and operational data.
• Build agentic workflows, retrieval/RAG systems, and classification pipelines.
• Stand up and maintain MCP servers and safe, reliable tool integrations for AI assistants.
• Own architecture, implementation, deployment, evaluation, and monitoring in AWS and Databricks.
• Evaluate AI tooling and patterns, run pilots, and lead adoption of successful approaches.
• Raise team AI engineering capability through working sessions, demos, pair programming, and internal tools.

Qualifications

• Bring 3+ years building and shipping production-quality software, including hands-on ML or AI systems work.
• Demonstrate LLM-stack fluency in RAG, embeddings, prompt engineering, agentic patterns, and generative-system evaluation.
• Have strong Python engineering skills with version control, testing, and CI.
• Be self-motivated, communicate strongly, and teach and develop teammates.

Preferred Qualifications

• MCP server or comparable AI-assistant tool-integration experience is preferred.
• Experience with AWS, Databricks, Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI, and vector databases is preferred.
• An advanced degree in computer science, machine learning, or a related quantitative field is preferred.
• Commercial AI/ML experience in forecasting, pricing, optimization, recommendation, or search is preferred.
• Media, publishing, or content-rich domain experience is preferred.

Compensation

• Salary range is USD 180,000 to 220,000 yearly.
• The role is eligible for an annual profit award or bonus, subject to company results.

Benefits

• Full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, retirement, disability, life insurance, commuter, student loan, educational assistance, and paid time off benefits.

Application

• A resume and cover letter are required for consideration.
• Applications are accepted through October 8, 2026, or until the role is filled.