Senior AI Engineer I
BillionToOne · Menlo Park, CA · 3 wk ago
HybridEngineering$193k–$214k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Build and deploy LLM-powered applications (retrieval systems, AI agents, workflow automation, vector storage) that integrate with internal systems and data sources
- Partner with business stakeholders to identify automation opportunities, scope requirements, and define success metrics
- Build lightweight data pipelines and analytics to support AI applications and measure their impact
- Own projects end-to-end: from prototyping and iteration through production deployment and monitoring
- Establish best practices for prompt engineering, evaluation, and responsible AI use as the team scales
- Develop and lead internal training sessions on LLM fundamentals, prompt engineering, and AI-assisted development tools
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, data science, or ML engineering
- Hands-on experience building applications with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)
- Strong Python proficiency and comfort with SQL and relational databases
- Experience deploying and maintaining production systems
- Familiarity with AWS
- Excellent communication skills and ability to translate business problems into technical solutions
- Self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity in a 0-to-1 environment
Nice-to-Haves
- Previous entrepreneurial experience
- Experience with retrieval architectures, vector databases, and embedding models
- Familiarity with agent frameworks or workflow orchestration tools
- Experience with traditional ML frameworks (scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- Prior work in healthcare, biotech, or other regulated industries
Benefits And Perks
- Working alongside brilliant, kind, passionate and dedicated colleagues, in an empowering environment, toward a global vision, striving for a future in which transformative molecular diagnostics can help millions of patients
- Open, transparent culture that includes weekly Town Hall meetings
- The ability to indirectly or directly change the lives of hundreds of thousands patients
- Multiple medical benefit options; employee premiums paid 100% of select plans, dependents covered up to 80%
- Extremely generous Family Bonding Leave for eligible employees (16 weeks, paid at 100%)
- Supplemental fertility benefits coverage
- Retail savings program including a 4% Company match
- Increase paid time off with increased tenure
- Latest and greatest hardware (laptop, lab equipment, facilities)
- Daily on-site lunches provided from top eateries
- A variety of perks on campus (state of the art gym, restaurant)
- Free on-site EV charging (compatible with all EVs, including Tesla)