Senior / Staff Applied AI Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement agent execution workflows with structured, validated model outputs
• Build semantic routing and complexity-classification systems across skills, data sources, and models
• Develop classifiers using BERT-style models, embeddings, rules, and ensembles
• Implement multi-turn context handling and state/context-retrieval mechanisms
• Build model-independent interfaces across OpenAI, Google, and open-weight models
• Create synthetic-data generation and validation pipelines
• Fine-tune and evaluate small models and classifiers
• Build grounding, provenance, and factuality/claim-validation mechanisms
• Create automated offline and online evaluation systems
• Analyze production failures and convert them into product improvements
• Optimize quality, latency, and inference cost
• Write production backend code and tests, contributing to architectural decisions through implementation

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Substantial experience building production backend systems under ambiguous product requirements
• Hands-on experience implementing LLM-powered applications beyond prompt prototypes (structured outputs, tool execution, agent orchestration)
• Experience with retrieval, classification, ranking, or semantic routing
• Background in classical machine learning and modern language models
• Experience with embeddings and vector-based systems
• Familiarity with supervised fine-tuning, LoRA, adapters, or distillation
• Experience with evaluation design and model error analysis
• Experience with synthetic-data generation
• Strong backend engineering skills in TypeScript, Rust, or another strongly engineered ecosystem
• Practical, disciplined experience working with coding agents (codebase exploration, task decomposition, test generation, large refactors, failure investigation)

About
Techery is a digital innovation software company focused on consumer behavior and automation. We empower non-tech companies to transform and become technologically future-proof.Our approach integrates culture, processes, tools, and platforms, enabling rapid development, frequent releases, and continuous innovation, increasingly through intelligent automation and AI-driven insights.🌟What sets us apart?People-First Culture: we believe our best perk is amazing people. Our rigorous (but friendly!) interview process ensures a strong alignment of goals and values, fostering a positive and productive environment. We value soft skills as much as technical expertise. To ensure a smooth transition, we have a specialized onboarding program that helps new team members quickly integrate into our working environment and contribute effectively to projects. The program's effectiveness has been proven by the successful integration of many newcomers over the past year.Innovation & Agility: our approach combines culture, processes, tools, and platforms to enable rapid development and continuous innovation. Effectiveness drives our processes, encouraging us to continuously seek improvements in productivity.Values-Driven: Techery cultivates a workplace defined by empathy, transparency, and effectiveness. We are bold in our pursuit of innovation, taking calculated risks to achieve exceptional results. With a passionate commitment to excellence and customer success, we embrace adaptability and inclusivity, valuing diverse perspectives and continuous learning to build impactful solutions.Flexible & Welcoming: we embrace a hybrid work model, encouraging in-office collaboration while providing flexibility. We want our team to have comfortable workspaces that foster better decision-making, build strong colleague relationships, and cultivate a sense of belonging.  Our company actively supports the inclusion of veterans and individuals with disabilities. Candidates from these groups who meet the job requirements are given priority consideration.Our offices are 🦮 pet-friendly, reflecting our inclusive and friendly culture.Are you a like-minded big thinker? Join Techery and make your mark in tech.