Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Tempus Unlimited, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that provides community-based services to empower children and adults with disabilities. The Artificial Intelligence Engineer will perform maintenance and quantization of AI models to deploy at scale, ensuring the in-house AI system is secure and functioning optimally.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build LLM-Powered applications, Api's and agentic pipelines
• Work with network and system administrators to integrate AI models into production systems via REST API's & SDKS
• Develop RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems and semantic search features
• Fine-tune foundation models for specific use cases
• Model Development, Train, Evaluate and iterate on ML models using real-world datasets
• Contribute to and maintain system standards
• Run track metrics and benchmark model performance
• Optimize and quantize models for latency and accuracy in production
• Build and maintain data pipelines that feed AI models
• Setup Monitoring alerting and logging for model health and drift
• Work with managers and system admins to define AI feature requirements and translate business problems into AI/ML solution designs
• Research and evaluate new models’, frameworks and tools
• Document architecture experiments and decisions clearly
• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks
• Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale
• Repair and recover from hardware or software failures
• Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies
• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning
• Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with computer systems
• Performing routine audit of systems and software

Requirements:

• Minimum education requirement of a High School Degree or equivalent with relevant experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field required
• Familiar with Python, SQL, ETL Pipeline, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Lama index and LangGraph
• Problem solving and analytic skills
• Ability to stay up to date on new systems and AI technologies
• Ability to work independently and be able to adjust to changing environments quickly
• Experience working in a 24/7 uptime environment
• Ability to train other staff
• Ability to maintain documentation on all systems related to AI
• Ability to work various small teams in and outside the IT department with shared responsibility
• Team Player
• Motivated and detail oriented
• Ability to work with limited direction and minimal oversight