Hiring: Senior Applied AI Engineer Company: Inversion Location: Los Angeles, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-14 13:21:54 Target Skills & Keywords : Fine-tuning, JavaScript, LLM, RAG, Security Clearance, Spark, Systems Design, TypeScript About the job Experience: •5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production-quality software systems. Required Skills: •Design, build, and deploy internal AI systems and agent-based workflows that unlock useful AI capabilities for teams across the company. •Own the end-to-end lifecycle of applied AI tools, including problem definition, prototyping, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, iteration, and long-term maintenance. •Develop agent platforms and supporting infrastructure that can safely and reliably perform tasks such as information retrieval, document analysis, workflow automation, and software development assistance. •Research and validate technical approaches for internal knowledge access and agent behavior, including retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, prompt architecture, and model evaluation methods. •Establish best practices for applied AI development at Inversion, including experimentation, evaluation, rollout strategy, observability, and responsible use of AI systems. •Help define the long-term product and technical vision for how AI tools should be used across the company as Inversion’s first AI-focused engineer. Qualifications: •Direct experience building and deploying applied AI or LLM-powered systems in production or near-production environments. •Strong software engineering fundamentals, including system design, testing, debugging, code quality, and maintainability •An innovative and optimistic approach to an environment with high ambiguity, shifting priorities, and loosely defined problem spaces. •Position may require occasional extended hours and/or weekend work. •Operational familiarity with TypeScript/Javascript and full-stack development for internal tools and user-facing AI applications. •Prior experience in a small team or startup environment where you were expected to define scope, set direction, and execute with a high degree of ownership. •Our office headquarters is located in Playa Vista, CA. This position requires in office presence. Compensation: •$139,000 - $201,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!