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

Company Description

Job Description

Specific Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate LLM-powered applications over catalog, sales, and operational data.
• Build agentic workflows, retrieval and 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 of services.
• Evaluate emerging AI tooling, run structured pilots, and lead adoption of effective approaches.
• Run working sessions, internal demos, pair programming, and internal tool development to advance AI usage.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building and shipping production-quality software with hands-on machine learning or AI systems experience.
• Fluency with retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, prompt engineering, agentic patterns, and rigorous generative AI evaluation.
• Strong Python engineering skills with version control, testing, and continuous integration.
• Self-motivated with strong communication skills and the ability to teach and level up teammates.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with MCP servers or comparable AI assistant tool-integration layers.
• Experience with AWS, Databricks, Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI, and vector databases.
• An advanced degree in a related quantitative field, commercial AI/ML experience, or a background in media, publishing, or content-rich domains.

Compensation

• The salary range for this position is $180,000 to $220,000 yearly.
• The position is eligible for an annual profit award or bonus subject to company results.

Workplace

• The title states that the position is open to remote work.