What are the responsibilities and job description for the Artificial Intelligence Engineer position at Harnham?
AI/ML Engineer (Mid-Level to Principal)
Location: San Mateo, CA (Hybrid – 3 days/week onsite)
Compensation: Up to $350,000 base salary potential equity, depending on experience
Work Authorization: U.S. Citizens and Green Card holders only
We are partnering with a well-funded, innovative technology company building next-generation AI solutions for enterprise data and analytics. They are seeking an experienced AI/ML Engineer to help design and scale intelligent systems that power advanced AI agents, code generation, knowledge retrieval, and data transformation capabilities.
What You'll Do
- Design and build production-grade AI agents and intelligent workflows.
- Develop and optimize RAG architectures, vector search solutions, and knowledge systems.
- Drive AI-powered code generation and data transformation capabilities.
- Evaluate, fine-tune, and improve LLM performance, quality, and reliability.
- Partner with engineering leadership to make key architectural and technology decisions.
- Scale AI systems for production environments with a focus on performance, observability, and reliability.
What We're Looking For
- 4 years of software engineering experience with strong AI/ML expertise.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying AI applications, agents, or LLM-based systems in production.
- Strong Python development skills.
- Experience with RAG, vector databases, knowledge graphs, prompt engineering, model evaluation, and AI system design.
- Background working with cloud-native technologies and distributed systems.
- Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, BigQuery, Neo4j, Kubernetes, AWS, Scala, or Go is a plus.
This is an opportunity to join a highly technical team where you'll have significant ownership, influence product direction, and solve complex AI challenges at scale.
Salary : $250,000 - $350,000