AI Engineer

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Modena, ITA
In-Office
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Software
The Role
Designs and ships production-grade AI systems, including RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, LLM integrations, MCP servers, vector database solutions, and evaluation pipelines. The role requires production Python development, retrieval optimization, prompt engineering, testing, and collaboration with engineers and clients. Candidates should have 2–4 years of software engineering experience, including 1–2 years focused on LLM or applied AI systems, plus at least one production RAG or agentic application.
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About expert.ai

We build production-grade AI systems for enterprise clients. Our work focuses on Large Language Models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, agentic architectures, and knowledge-driven AI. We are a lean team of engineers and researchers who move fast and care about the quality of what we ship.

The Role

We are looking for an AI Engineer with around 2 to 4 years of experience — someone past the learning phase, who has shipped at least one LLM-powered system to production and knows what breaks, what scales, and what was a bad idea in hindsight.

You do not need to have done everything. You need to have done some things well, understand why they worked, and be ready to go deeper.

What You Will Do

  • Design and implement RAG pipelines end-to-end: ingestion, chunking strategies, embedding models, vector retrieval, reranking, and response generation
  • Build agentic workflows using LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or custom orchestration — including tool use, memory management, and multi-step reasoning
  • Integrate and prompt-engineer LLMs (GP Claude Sonnet/Opus, Qwen) for domain-specific tasks; contribute to fine-tuning efforts when needed
  • Develop MCP servers and clients to standardize tool and context exposure across AI systems
  • Maintain vector databases (FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, pgvector) and optimize retrieval quality
  • Build evaluation pipelines to track hallucination rate, retrieval precision, latency, and output consistency over time
  • Write clean, tested, production-ready Python and contribute to code reviews
  • Collaborate with senior engineers and clients to translate requirements into solid technical decisions

What We Expect

  • 2 to 4 years of software engineering experience, with at least 1 to 2 years focused on LLM or applied AI systems
  • At least one production RAG or agentic application under your belt — you know what it took to get it there
  • Solid understanding of embeddings, transformer fundamentals, context management, and prompt design patterns
  • Familiarity with Docker
  • Able to work with autonomy — you ask good questions, but you do not wait to be told what to do next

 

Formal degrees are welcome but not required. What matters is what you have shipped.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with MCP protocols in real projects
  • Knowledge graphs or GraphRAG pipelines (Neo4j, Neptune, or similar)
  • Inference optimization: quantization (GGUF, AWQ, GPTQ), vLLM
  • Evaluation tooling: RAGAS, TruLens, or custom eval design
  • Domain NLP experience in legal, manifacturing, or healthcare

Skills Required

  • 2 to 4 years of software engineering experience
  • 1 to 2 years focused on LLM or applied AI systems
  • At least one production RAG or agentic application
  • Understanding of embeddings, transformer fundamentals, context management, and prompt design patterns
  • Familiarity with Docker
  • Ability to work autonomously and ask effective questions
  • Experience with MCP protocols in real projects
  • Knowledge graphs or GraphRAG pipelines, including Neo4j or Neptune
  • Inference optimization using quantization or vLLM
  • Evaluation tooling such as RAGAS, TruLens, or custom evaluation design
  • Domain NLP experience in legal, manufacturing, or healthcare
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The Company
Boston, MA
318 Employees

What We Do

Expert.ai is the premier artificial intelligence platform for language understanding. Its unique hybrid approach to NL combines symbolic human-like comprehension and machine learning to transform language-intensive processes into practical knowledge, providing the insight required to improve decision making throughout organizations. By offering a full range of on-premise, private and public cloud offerings, expert.ai augments business operations, accelerates and scales data science capabilities and simplifies AI adoption across a vast range of industries including Insurance, Banking & Finance, Publishing & Media, Defense & Intelligence, Life Science & Pharma, Oil Gas & Energy, and more.

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