Job Title: Senior AI Engineer

Company Name: Optimal Dynamics

Job Url: https://boards.greenhouse.io/embed/job_app?token=5653165004&utm_source=jobright&jr_id=68cb927fefdec76df36bef5f

Job Description: About The Role
We’re looking for a Senior AI Engineer to lead the 0→1 buildout and 1→n scaling of AI capabilities at Optimal Dynamics. You’ll set direction, establish engineering standards, and deliver production systems that ground AI outputs in trustworthy company and customer data. This is a hands-on role with broad ownership where you’ll make key architecture and tooling choices and evolve them as we learn.

Key Responsibilities:

Own RAG initiatives end-to-end from problem framing and data readiness through prototyping, iteration, and production launch.

Establish foundational components and practices for document processing, indexing, retrieval, orchestration, and evaluation; selecting tools and approaches that balance quality, cost, and speed.

Build reliable services and APIs that are observable, secure, and designed for scale in a cloud environment.

Define success metrics (quality, latency, cost, safety) and drive continuous improvement via experimentation and data-driven decisions.

Create durable team assets (i.e. playbooks, test harnesses, checklists, and documentation) to make RAG development repeatable across products.

Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data/ML, Engineering, and GTM to translate ambiguous needs into shippable capabilities with clear business impact.

Mentor teammates and contribute to a strong engineering culture around AI systems and responsible deployment.
Who You Are
Experienced: a Senior, hands-on engineer who can take a fuzzy problem from discovery to reliable production outcomes.

Pragmatic: You balance quality, cost, speed, and risk to ship value iteratively.

Innovative: Comfortable choosing and evolving the stack as needs change; you create guardrails and standards along the way.

Communicative: You have the ability to align stakeholders and translate complex technical ideas into clear decisions.

Operational Owner: You care about reliability, observability, and measurable impact on customers and the business.