Metropolis
Senior AI Engineer
$170K–$200K
New York, New York, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 21, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years of hands-on production AI application experience.
About the job
Builds and operates AI applications and agentic workflows that automate business processes, partnering with business teams to deliver measurable operational outcomes.
What you'll do
- Identify automation opportunities with business leaders and translate needs into engineering specifications.
- Build, deploy, and maintain LLM-based applications, agentic workflows, data pipelines, and integrations.
- Own production reliability and business impact, including monitoring, alerting, and iteration based on user feedback.
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; 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 and cloud infrastructure such as AWS.
Nice to have
- Experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or another 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, SQL, Snowflake, Airflow, Prefect, AWS
AI focus
Develops production LLM-based applications, prompt pipelines, tool-calling integrations, RAG setups, and agentic workflows for business process automation.
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