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AI Engineer

GigFinder.ai
Richmond, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 5/29/2026 CLOSED ON 6/4/2026

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About the Role

We are seeking a talented and ambitious AI Engineer to help design, build, and improve AI-powered systems for a rapidly growing organization. This is a full-time remote position for someone who is energized by fast-moving work, practical problem-solving, and building technology that creates measurable value.

The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering skills, hands-on experience with AI tools and APIs, and the ability to turn business needs into reliable, production-ready AI features. We are looking for someone who is curious, resourceful, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where priorities move quickly and expectations are high.

This role is a strong fit for an engineer who wants to be part of a growing team that is ambitious, innovative, and focused on building meaningful AI-driven products.

Full Job Description

The AI Engineer will be responsible for developing, testing, and maintaining artificial intelligence features across company products, workflows, and internal systems. This may include working with large language models, prompt workflows, structured data extraction, recommendation logic, candidate/job matching, automation tools, AI scoring systems, data pipelines, and API integrations.

This position requires both technical depth and practical judgment. The AI Engineer should be able to evaluate model outputs, improve reliability, reduce errors, and create systems that are useful in real-world business settings. The role will involve close collaboration with product, design, engineering, and leadership teams.

The successful candidate will not simply experiment with AI tools, but will help turn AI concepts into dependable features that can be used by customers, internal teams, and business partners.

Anticipated Duties
  • Design, develop, and maintain AI-powered product features and internal automation tools.
  • Build systems that use large language models, AI APIs, machine learning tools, and structured output workflows.
  • Develop prompt strategies, validation rules, scoring logic, and response formatting for AI-driven features.
  • Integrate AI services with web applications, databases, APIs, and backend systems.
  • Build and improve tools for job matching, applicant evaluation, resume analysis, classification, ranking, summarization, and recommendations.
  • Work with structured and unstructured data, including resumes, job descriptions, user profiles, application records, and business documents.
  • Create testing and evaluation methods to measure AI output quality, consistency, and accuracy.
  • Monitor AI performance and help identify areas where model responses need improvement.
  • Develop fallback logic, error handling, and guardrails to make AI systems more reliable.
  • Collaborate with developers to deploy AI features into production environments.
  • Work with product and business teams to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
  • Research and evaluate AI tools, APIs, frameworks, and model capabilities.
  • Document technical decisions, workflows, prompts, system behavior, and implementation details.
  • Help improve internal productivity through AI-assisted workflows and automation.
  • Stay current with emerging AI engineering practices, model capabilities, and applied AI trends.
Required Qualifications
  • 4 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Strong programming experience with Python.
  • Hands-on experience working with AI APIs, large language models, machine learning tools, or AI-enabled applications.
  • Experience building backend services, automation workflows, data-processing scripts, or API-driven systems.
  • Strong understanding of REST APIs, JSON, databases, authentication, and cloud-based services.
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
  • Experience testing, debugging, and improving AI outputs.
  • Ability to work independently in a remote environment.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambitious, and evolving company environment.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, or other LLM providers.
  • Experience with prompt engineering, structured outputs, function calling, tool use, or agent workflows.
  • Experience with embeddings, vector search, retrieval-augmented generation, or semantic search.
  • Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, or similar AI tools.
  • Experience with SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar databases.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Experience with recruiting technology, job platforms, HR technology, applicant tracking systems, or candidate matching systems.
  • Familiarity with model evaluation, hallucination reduction, data validation, and AI safety practices.
  • Experience working in a startup, SaaS company, or rapidly scaling technology environment.
Skills and Competencies

The ideal candidate should demonstrate:

  • Strong Python development skills.
  • Practical understanding of modern AI systems.
  • Ability to build usable AI features, not just prototypes.
  • Strong debugging and testing discipline.
  • Clear communication with both technical and non-technical team members.
  • Ability to work quickly without sacrificing quality.
  • Curiosity and willingness to learn new AI tools and methods.
  • Strong ownership of assigned projects.
  • Ability to prioritize work in a fast-moving environment.
  • Attention to detail when handling data, prompts, scoring logic, and AI outputs.
Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package designed to support growth, flexibility, and long-term success, including:

  • Competitive annual salary.
  • Fully remote work model.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Paid time off and paid holidays.
  • Professional development opportunities.
  • Access to modern AI tools and engineering resources.
  • Opportunity to work on high-impact AI features.
  • Career growth potential as the company expands.
  • Collaborative team environment.
  • Direct opportunity to influence product direction and technical architecture.
Why Join Us

This is an opportunity to join a rapidly growing group that is ambitious, fast-paced, and focused on building practical AI-powered technology. We are looking for applicants who bring that same energy.

The right person for this role will be excited by the chance to move quickly, solve complex problems, and help shape systems that can make work smarter and more efficient. This is not a slow-moving environment. We are building, improving, testing, and scaling, and we want people who are motivated by progress.

If you are an AI Engineer who wants to work on meaningful products, contribute directly to growth, and be part of a team that values ambition and execution, we would like to hear from you.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, experience, business needs, and merit.

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