Top AI Engineer Jobs in Seattle, WA

Lead the architecture and hands-on development of distributed AI inference runtime systems. Responsibilities include scheduling, batching, KV-cache and memory management, distributed execution, kernel optimization, profiling, benchmarking, and performance analysis. Enable new model architectures, improve latency and throughput, develop validation and safe-rollout systems, and collaborate with infrastructure, compiler, hardware, cloud, and research teams. Mentor engineers and establish performance-engineering practices for Arm’s production AI platform.

Build foundational platform software, runtime infrastructure, APIs, SDKs, and developer tooling for on-device physical AI workloads. Develop reliable deployment, lifecycle management, observability, and diagnostics systems under edge constraints. Optimize performance across CPUs and AI accelerators while creating stable abstractions over AI frameworks, models, and hardware. Collaborate with architects, product managers, and AI engineers on production-ready platform capabilities, reference implementations, documentation, and workflows.

Leads architecture and hands-on development of distributed AI inference runtime capabilities, including scheduling, batching, KV-cache management, memory allocation, kernel optimization, model execution, and performance benchmarking. Partners with infrastructure, compiler, hardware, cloud, and research teams to improve latency, throughput, reliability, and resource efficiency. Provides technical leadership, conducts reviews, mentors engineers, and establishes performance-engineering practices for production AI workloads.

Designs, develops, and troubleshoots secure, scalable ML software systems and services. Builds production code, architecture artifacts, APIs, and distributed microservices; analyzes data to improve applications and system architecture. Uses AI-assisted development tools responsibly, validates generated outputs, and guides peers on secure engineering practices. Requires Python and ML framework expertise, cloud-native technologies, public cloud experience, distributed systems knowledge, and Cassandra or equivalent NoSQL experience. Preferred experience includes GPU workloads, model serving, distributed inference, model compression, and edge deployment.

Designs, develops, and troubleshoots secure, scalable ML systems and services. Builds production software in Python using ML frameworks, cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, microservices, and NoSQL databases. Creates architecture artifacts, analyzes large datasets, improves system reliability and performance, and uses AI-assisted development tools responsibly. Preferred experience includes GPU workloads in Kubernetes, model-serving frameworks, distributed inference, model compression, and edge deployment.

Lead the design, development, and operation of an enterprise GenAI serving platform. Build high-throughput LLM inference, gateway, routing, GPU optimization, quantization, distributed serving, and observability capabilities. Establish reliability practices, SLOs, performance benchmarks, cost controls, and secure production standards. Drive adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering workflows with governance, auditability, and human validation while influencing senior stakeholders and enabling reusable platform components across teams.

Architect and build reliable, scalable AI platform services supporting model training and inference across hybrid-cloud environments. Develop reusable APIs, SDKs, tooling, and reference architectures; establish observability, resilience, security, automation, and cost-optimization standards. Partner with engineering and product teams to deliver platform capabilities, meet reliability targets, resolve production incidents, and drive remediation. Mentor engineers and promote responsible, secure use of AI-assisted development tools.

Architects and develops AI-powered systems, tools, agents, backend services, APIs, and experimentation frameworks using foundational AI models. Integrates AI capabilities with microservices, AWS, Snowflake, and complex data systems while ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability. Translates business problems into technical solutions, prototypes AI applications, collaborates with product and engineering teams, evaluates emerging AI technologies, and documents system designs and integration patterns.

Design and deploy production AI assistants, copilots, agents, RAG systems, and workflow automation using enterprise data. Build AI backend services, APIs, microservices, and AWS serverless workflows; integrate enterprise platforms; implement observability, responsible AI, human-in-the-loop controls, and traceability. Partner with Data, IT, and business teams to improve operational processes and decision-making while managing production incidents, model rollbacks, performance, accuracy, and cost.

Own the MLOps foundation for a shared enterprise AI platform. Build production code, infrastructure automation, delivery pipelines, model and prompt lifecycle tooling, serving systems, observability, evaluation, and cost controls. Establish technical guardrails, governance, security, and operational standards while embedding with teams to move AI workloads into reliable production. Provide principal-level technical leadership, mentor engineers, influence architecture, and communicate trade-offs with technical and executive stakeholders.

Build and ship production AI systems across retrieval, knowledge graphs, inference, agentic workflows, and data platforms. Develop customer-context retrieval, scored signals, evaluation and observability capabilities, and workflows that turn insights into action. Work hands-on with large and small models, durable orchestration, cloud deployment, inference-cost optimization, and high-volume observability data. Establish reusable engineering patterns, collaborate with product and platform teams, and mentor through strong technical contributions.

Design, build, and operate agentic AI systems end-to-end for Professional Services. Translate stakeholder needs into secure, scalable multi-agent architectures, define performance benchmarks, manage deployments and incident response, advise leadership, mentor teammates, and maintain runbooks and production tooling including on-call responsibilities.

Build and productionize agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, AI services, backend systems, and ML pipelines for sales automation. Integrate Salesforce, quoting engines, data lakes, and internal platforms using scalable, event-driven architectures. Lead 0-to-1 development of tools for account research, lead prioritization, and quoting while ensuring reliability, observability, performance, and resilience across the GTM technology stack.

Design, build, and operate scalable services and distributed systems supporting agentic AI capabilities. Lead system, API, and data architecture; integrate AI/ML solutions across development and production environments; establish standards for reliability, security, testing, observability, and compliance; partner cross-functionally on technical direction; and mentor engineers while building reusable AI tools, orchestration layers, and safeguards.

Design, build, and operate production AI automations and agentic workflows for Toast’s customer care systems. Integrate LLMs with Salesforce Service Cloud, Amazon Connect, and workflow platforms; develop autonomous actions with human oversight; test, monitor, and improve system reliability, accuracy, latency, and cost. Collaborate with software engineers, Salesforce developers, and care operations stakeholders to translate workflows into scalable intelligent solutions.

Build and scale AI platform infrastructure for internal agents across AWS/GCP. Integrate identity (Okta, OAuth2/OIDC), implement agentic security, containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD and Terraform-based pipelines, run vendor evaluations, and design observability/telemetry for LLM-driven workflows while collaborating with security, identity, and engineering teams.

The Lead AI Engineer will design and implement LLM-powered applications, optimize RAG pipelines, and evaluate models while integrating AI systems into production environments.

Lead and coach teams to design, develop, and deliver production-grade AI and data solutions for clients. Manage client accounts, ensure quality and timelines, analyze complex datasets, implement best practices, and drive continuous improvement while fostering client relationships and technical excellence.

Integrate and fine-tune existing AI models within production software, evaluate model performance, build evaluation frameworks, configure observability, develop Python AI features, and troubleshoot real-world performance. Collaborate with data science, engineering, the CTO, and cross-functional teams to improve products and identify AI innovation opportunities. This role focuses on applying existing models rather than designing new machine learning models.

The Staff Forward Deployed Engineer drives AI adoption for strategic customers by solving complex cloud infrastructure challenges, developing scalable assets, and influencing product roadmaps through collaboration and technical expertise.

Build production AI agents and agent-powered features from research and prototyping through deployment. Develop evaluation infrastructure with golden datasets, regression suites, and offline/online scoring. Own retrieval and context pipelines, production instrumentation, failure taxonomies, and cost and latency budgets. Partner with data science and product management on experiments and agent behavior, while establishing LLM engineering patterns, guardrails, and reusable tooling.

Lead design and delivery of advanced data and ML solutions, performing exploratory analysis, statistical modeling, and visualization to inform strategy. Manage and coach teams, collaborate with clients to validate outcomes, and improve analytics processes and data quality to drive business decisions.

Design, build, and operate production-grade AI tools, automations, and integrations for HR workflows. Lead LLM-based solutions (prompting, RAG), integrate people systems (Workday, Slack, Google Suite), improve data quality, support end users, and drive measurable productivity and product roadmap decisions.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain resilient, scalable backend services and platform components for Toast's Voice AI platform. Lead cross-cutting architecture and projects, integrate AI platforms (LLMs), implement observability and evaluation for AI systems, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers.

Owns the strategy, architecture, and implementation of production AI and machine learning systems for personalization, search ranking, relevance, and patient-provider matching. Builds recommendation engines, retrieval models, LLM applications, and scalable ML infrastructure while establishing AI safety, evaluation, and MLOps standards. The role requires hands-on model development, technical leadership, mentoring, and responsible deployment of AI in a regulated mental healthcare environment.