Metropolis
Senior AI Engineer
$170K–$200K
Los Angeles, California, United States +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 21, 2026
- Location
- Los Angeles, California, United States
New York, New York, United States - Experience
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying LLM-based or AI-powered applications in production.
About the job
Builds and operates production AI systems and agentic workflows that automate business processes across Metropolis business units.
What you'll do
- Partner with business teams to identify automation opportunities and translate needs into engineering specifications.
- Build and deploy LLM-based applications, agentic workflows, prompt pipelines, tool integrations, and RAG systems.
- Maintain data pipelines and production reliability, monitor AI outputs, and iterate based on stakeholder feedback and business impact.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years designing, building, and deploying LLM-based or AI-powered applications in production.
- Strong Python skills and practical experience with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, and agentic patterns.
- Familiarity with SQL, data transformation, and cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake.
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, or similar) and cloud infrastructure (AWS).
Nice to have
- Previous experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or a highly client/business-facing technical role.
- Experience with vector databases, embeddings, or semantic search.
Pay
$170,000.00 USD to $200,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, OpenAI, Anthropic, Snowflake, Airflow, Prefect, AWS, TypeScript
AI focus
Develop and deploy LLM-based applications and agentic workflows, including prompt pipelines, tool-calling integrations, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), to automate business processes.
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