Applied AI Engineer
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The roles on this page centre on building, deploying, and maintaining AI systems in production. Across the sample summaries, a recurring pattern is the combination of large language model inference, foundation model training, and model evaluation at scale. Capital One's Senior Staff AI Engineer typifies this: designing and deploying AI components including vector databases and LLM inference while optimising large-scale systems. The Staff AI Engineer on the Enterprise Analysis Platform adds a product dimension, building guardrails and similarity search for an internal tool serving a large user base. Titles such as Distinguished AI Engineer and Senior Director of AI Engineering suggest a wide span of seniority, while names like "Lead AI Engineer – Agentic AI, Agent Guardrails, Agent Evaluation, Agent Memory" point to a strong concentration of work around agentic systems. Manager-level postings appear across several employers, indicating that some roles carry team leadership responsibilities alongside technical delivery.
These counts reflect how often a term appears in descriptions across all postings on this page, not a formal requirement list. LLMs and evaluation surface in the clear majority of postings, and Python appears in more than half. Agents, APIs, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, and Azure are each mentioned in a substantial portion. A master's degree and research publications appear in roughly a quarter of postings, suggesting some but not all roles expect an academic background. The sample covers the full set of live jobs, so the pattern is reasonably consistent.
The employers' own advertised ranges, for individual roles at different levels — not an average and not a market rate.
The majority of postings on this page are listed as onsite, with a meaningful minority designated hybrid. Only a small number are explicitly remote. Where a posting carries a "Remote Eligible" label in the title, that is reflected in the individual listing. No postings have an unknown work mode, so the breakdown is complete for this set. Candidates should check individual postings for the specific office location, as the sample summaries indicate at least one role is based in Cambridge, MA despite appearing in this San Francisco listing.
Jobs checked 6 hours ago. · Guide reviewed 9 September 2026.
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