Senior AI Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of production-ready AI systems within the ION Factory OS
• Ship customer-facing features including AI-driven functionality like generative procedure creation and anomaly detection
• Architect and maintain scalable software systems, AI/ML pipelines, and product infrastructure
• Design and implement AI features using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines
• Leverage Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect AI models with data sources and external tools
• Collaborate with product managers and customers to translate challenges into software solutions
• Partner with data engineering to process manufacturing data
• Mentor junior engineers and raise the technical bar

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years shipping AI/ML-powered products into production
• Proven track record of building customer-facing applications
• Experience architecting scalable systems on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Expertise in data modeling, preprocessing, and model evaluation at scale
• Familiarity with generative AI models (LLMs, diffusion models, GANs)
• Strong knowledge of APIs and modern software design patterns

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building AI systems for real-time, low-latency, or edge deployments
• Familiarity with data governance and compliance standards (SOC2, GDPR, ITAR)
• Hands-on experience with RAG and Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• Customer-facing experience gathering requirements and demonstrating value
• Contributions to open-source projects or published research in applied AI/ML

Benefits

• Health Insurance (medical, vision, dental, & life)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Option Plan
• Team outings, group lunches, and happy hours
• Paid holidays, sick days, and PTO
• Flexible Friday
• 401K

About the Company

First Resonance accelerates the speed and reliability of hardware development for companies manufacturing the next generation of hardware products, including space exploration, electric airplanes, and robotics.