Senior AI Engineer

We are hiring for great (Senior) AI Engineer who are open to learning the tools we use and building the AI Platform at First American.

Role Summary : As an AI Engineer in our Centre of Excellence, you will be instrumental in building, deploying, and maintaining production-ready AI applications using readily available foundation models . You will bridge the gap between model development and practical application, ensuring robust, scalable, and efficient AI systems that deliver tangible value.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design and implement end-to-end AI systems , integrating foundation models into various applications and workflows.
• Apply and optimize model adaptation techniques , including prompt engineering , Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and finetuning, to tailor foundation models for specific use cases.
• Develop and integrate AI architecture components such as context enhancement, input / output guardrails, model routers / gateways, caching mechanisms, and agent patterns to ensure system reliability and security.
• Implement AI pipeline orchestration to define and chain together different components of an AI system, ensuring seamless data flow and complex workflow execution.
• Optimize AI model inference for latency and cost, utilizing techniques like quantization, distillation, and parallelism, and demonstrate proficiency in working with GPUs and large compute clusters .
• Collaborate closely with Data Scientists to integrate trained models and with Data Engineers to ensure efficient data pipelines for AI applications.
• Contribute to defining and implementing systematic evaluation pipelines for AI applications, focusing on metrics such as factual consistency, generation capability, and instruction-following for open-ended outputs.
• Engage in continuous monitoring and observability of AI systems in production to detect failures, drifts, and identify opportunities for improvement and cost savings.
• Assist in productizing AI-powered outputs and features, ensuring alignment with customer needs and product strategy.

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