Octus
Senior AI Engineer
New York, New York, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$160k-$170kDetected 4 days ago
PythonDistributed SystemsCode ReviewGitVector DatabasesAWSDockerCI/CDDatadogDevOpsKafkaMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchData EngineeringNLPLLMsRAGAI OrchestrationExcelResearchCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- Octus Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics.
- Our core values - Action Oriented, Customer First Mindset, Effective Team Players, and Driven to Excel - define an organizational ethos that's as high-performing as it is human.
- If we identify a role that would be suitable for a broader range of skills and experience such that we would consider hiring at multiple levels then the range listed below may reflect that breadth.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement multi-agent and agentic orchestration frameworks using agent SDKs such as the Claude Agent SDK, Google ADK, or AWS AgentCore, incorporating tools, external data sources, memory, and state management
- Build and maintain MCP servers and integrations to extend AI system capabilities with structured tool use and external context
- Build and optimize RAG pipelines including embedding strategies, vector database, retrieval quality tuning, and cost-aware ingestion design
- Integrate with managed LLM services across cloud providers to support diverse deployment and cost optimization strategies.
- Apply systems thinking to design and optimize AI and LLM systems, balancing quality, scalability, latency, cost, and operational complexity, while implementing efficiency improvements using model selection, prompt design, batching, caching, and retrieval strategies.
- Design and implement automated evaluation frameworks to assess LLM system quality, accuracy, and performance across production workloads
- Architect and manage high-throughput, real-time data pipelines using Kafka
- Design, deploy, and scale production AI services on AWS (Batch, Lambda, ECS, S3, etc), applying modern containerization, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Implement comprehensive observability frameworks using Datadog - tracking token usage, pipeline latency, error rates, consumer lag, and model performance with actionable alerting
- Apply strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills to break down complex, ambiguous requirements into clear, implementable technical components and system designs.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Deep Python expertise with a track record of shipping production systems at scale
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing automated evaluation frameworks for LLM systems
- proficiency with PyTorch or TensorFlow for model development and fine-tuning.
- Practical experience with cloud-based deployments and infrastructure tools (e.g., AWS, Docker, GitHub) and an understanding of modern DevOps practices, containerization, orchestration, and caching strategies.
- Strong problem-solving and systems thinking, with the ability to balance trade-offs across model quality, scalability, inference latency, and cost.
Compensation
- At Octus, we consider a range of factors in connection with compensation decisions, including experience, skills, location, and our business needs and limitations.
Benefits
- Fine-tune, optimize, and deploy open-source deep learning models for production use cases, leveraging GPU infrastructure for training and inference
- Apply reinforcement learning techniques (e.g., RLHF, RLAIF) to improve model alignment and task-specific performance
Equal opportunity
- Octus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
- We strive to create an inclusive and diverse work environment where all individuals are valued, respected, and treated fairly.
- We believe that diversity enriches our workplace and enhances our ability to innovate and succeed.
This listing is sourced directly from Octus's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.