Senior AI Engineer
BH-43205
Posted: 08/06/2026
- $150,000-$200,000 per annum
- New York, United States
- Permanent
Senior AI Engineer
Location: New York, NY (Hybrid – 3 days in office)
Company Stage: High-growth Startup
The client is a fast-growing startup focused on building innovative, AI-powered products that solve real-world business problems. Operating in a dynamic and collaborative environment, the team is highly technical, product-driven, and committed to leveraging cutting-edge advancements in generative AI.
About the Role The client is seeking an experienced AI Engineer with a strong focus on Generative AI to design, develop, and deploy advanced AI systems. This role will play a key part in building scalable GenAI solutions and integrating large language models into production environments.
The position offers significant ownership, with the opportunity to influence architecture, product direction, and AI strategy from an early stage.
Key Responsibilities
Location: New York, NY (Hybrid – 3 days in office)
Company Stage: High-growth Startup
The client is a fast-growing startup focused on building innovative, AI-powered products that solve real-world business problems. Operating in a dynamic and collaborative environment, the team is highly technical, product-driven, and committed to leveraging cutting-edge advancements in generative AI.
About the Role The client is seeking an experienced AI Engineer with a strong focus on Generative AI to design, develop, and deploy advanced AI systems. This role will play a key part in building scalable GenAI solutions and integrating large language models into production environments.
The position offers significant ownership, with the opportunity to influence architecture, product direction, and AI strategy from an early stage.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy generative AI solutions, including LLM-powered applications
- Develop and optimize end-to-end ML pipelines (data processing, training, evaluation, deployment)
- Integrate and fine-tune large language models (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source models)
- Implement advanced GenAI techniques such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, and agents
- Build scalable backend services and APIs to serve AI models in production
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate business requirements into AI features
- Continuously improve model performance, scalability, latency, and cost efficiency
- Stay current with emerging trends and advancements in AI, particularly in the generative AI space
- 5+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering or a related field
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Proven experience building and deploying generative AI or LLM-based applications
- Hands-on experience with frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar
- Solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals and evaluation techniques
- Experience building APIs and production systems (e.g., FastAPI, Flask)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Strong understanding of prompt engineering, embeddings, and vector search
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment with high ownership
Mikhil Dodhia
Senior Consultant