Key skills
AI/ML servicesPythonAWS cloudLLM frameworksData infrastructureDevOps practicesNatural Language ProcessingStreaming data integrationFintech exposureAIMLNLPLLMLarge Language ModelsAWSSaaS
About this role
8am is looking for a Senior Engineer to join their team of seasoned AI engineers who are delivering on the roadmap of AI features. The role involves designing and building AI-powered features that enhance their suite of products, collaborating with various teams to drive meaningful business and customer outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to translate business problems into AI-driven solutions
- Design, implement, and integrate AI features into existing 8am products
- Partner with the Data team to ensure the right data is collected, enriched, prepared, and staged for AI consumption and use
- Build and evaluate AI-powered services, from customer-facing prototypes to general availability to all our customers
- Write high-quality Python code to manipulate data, interact with large language models, and assess performance
- Develop tools and infrastructure to support reliable, scalable, and secure AI deployment
- Work with our cloud operations team to deploy AI features, monitor their impact, and continuously improve them
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in full stack SaaS application development or backend
- Proven track record of building and deploying production-ready AI/ML services
- Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks, platforms and related tooling
- Strong Python development skills and familiarity with data manipulation and evaluation workflows
- Experience building scalable data infrastructure and integrating models into broader SaaS systems
- Experience working in AWS cloud environments and with modern DevOps practices
- Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience fine-tuning and optimizing Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Experience integrating AI into streaming or real-time data flows
- Background in Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Exposure to fintech or the legal industry