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Applied AI Engineer, Work From Home

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Strong software engineering background in production environments.
  • Experience working with LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source models).
  • Familiarity with prompt engineering, structured outputs, and tool use patterns.
  • Experience building or integrating AI features into real products.

Responsibilities

  • Build AI-powered product features integrated into real insurance workflows.
  • Design and optimize LLM-based interactions across customer and internal systems.
  • Evaluate model performance using real-world data, feedback loops, and experiments.
  • Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to ship end-to-end AI features.

Key facts

  • Remote from: California (USA)
  • Full time
  • Senior (5-10 years)
  • AI Engineer
  • English

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Collaboration
  • Working Quickly

About the company

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Parallel Partners

Staffing & Recruiting

Parallel Partners / Next Step Systems specializes in the recruitment of information technology personnel for direct hire positions in the financial services and trading industries. Our clients include International Hedge Funds, Proprietary Trading Firms, Investment Banks, On-line Brokerages, Market Data Providers, Start-up Trading Firms, Trading Software Product Vendors and many others. Established in 1995, Parallel Partners is headquartered in Chicago and handles searches nationwide. We work with the Fortune 500 as well as emerging technology firms. 90% of our business is repeat business. Next Step Systems Acquires Parallel Partners Naperville, IL - April 9, 2014 - Next Step Systems announced today that it has acquired information technology staffing specialists, Parallel Partners in order to better serve its company clients and job seeker candidates. Founded in 1995, Parallel Partners is a leading staffing firm successfully placing information technology professionals in full time permanent positions. Prior to the acquisition, Next Step Systems and Parallel Partners have had a long-term strategic partnership and have shared philosophies on recruiting practices. The acquisition will expand on Next Step Systems’ leadership in information technology recruiting, its key employee, candidate and client base, and its well-established technology resources. About Next Step Systems Next Step Systems is an information technology recruiting firm founded in 1995. Next Step Systems specializes in placing all levels of information technology talent in full time permanent positions across all industries throughout the U.S. To reach Parallel Partners, please email jobs@parallelpartners.com or call 630-428-0600 x14.

Company details

IndustryStaffing & Recruiting
Company size2 - 10

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Job description

Job Description

Applied AI Engineer, Work From Home

We are looking for an Applied AI Engineer to design, build, and optimize AI-powered features that sit directly inside our product workflows.  The Applied AI Engineer role focuses on turning model capabilities into real product behavior, where AI interacts with users, supports decision-making, and powers automation across insurance journeys.  This is a fully remote role where you will be part of a global engineering team working across multiple countries to build reliable, scalable AI-powered systems.  We have multiple openings for this position.  This position is 100% Remote.

Applied AI Engineer Responsibilities:

- Build AI-powered product features integrated into real insurance workflows.

- Design and optimize LLM-based interactions across customer and internal systems.

- Develop prompts, reasoning flows, and structured AI outputs for production use cases.

- Evaluate model performance using real-world data, feedback loops, and experiments.

- Improve reliability of AI outputs through guardrails, fallback logic, and validation layers.

- Work closely with backend engineers to integrate AI capabilities into APIs and workflows.

- Design and implement AI-driven automation features (chat, recommendations, decision support).

- Analyze user behavior and model responses to continuously improve AI performance.

- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to ship end-to-end AI features.

- Contribute to AI system design decisions focused on usability and real-world impact.

Applied AI Engineer Outcomes

- AI features are reliable, consistent, and production-ready across workflows.

- User-facing AI interactions are intuitive and improve task completion rates.

- Model outputs are measurable, testable, and continuously improving.

- AI-driven automation reduces manual work in insurance processes.

- Product teams can safely deploy AI features with controlled behavior.

Qualifications

Applied AI Engineer Qualifications:

- Strong software engineering background in production environments.

- Experience working with LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source models).

- Familiarity with prompt engineering, structured outputs, and tool use patterns.

- Experience building or integrating AI features into real products.

- Strong understanding of API-based system integration.

- Ability to evaluate AI outputs critically using data and user feedback.

- Experience with experimentation, A/B testing, or evaluation frameworks.

- Strong product sense and focus on user experience.

- Comfortable working in fast-paced, globally distributed teams.

- Tech Stack:  A/B Testing, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Anthropic, Evaluation Frameworks, LLM APIs, Node.js, NoSQL, OpenAI, Open-Source Models, Pinecone, Prompt Engineering Frameworks, Python, REST APIs, SQL, Vector Databases, and Weaviate.

Benefits include medical insurance, Dental, Vision, Savings Plan Options, PTO, etc.

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