Experienced AI Automation Engineer

Transform Labs • Columbus, OH

16d • Remote

About The Position

Transform Labs is seeking a U.S.-based AI enthusiast to join their team and help develop cutting-edge automation solutions. You'll work with Large Language Models (LLMs), multimodal AI tools, and workflow orchestration platforms to create intelligent systems that handle text, voice, images, and video. The ideal candidate has experience shipping AI into production, understands the realities of RAG pipelines, prompt regressions, and the tradeoffs between fine-tuning and prompting. They should be passionate about AI, enjoy mentoring others, and have thoughtful opinions about evaluation and observability for non-deterministic systems. This role involves maintaining, improving, and evolving existing AI systems, as well as shaping the future of AI product development at Transform Labs.

Requirements

• Strong programming proficiency in Python or JavaScript, with a track record of production systems you've designed, deployed, and maintained.
• Deep API integration experience, including REST and GraphQL, authentication patterns (OAuth, API keys, JWT), rate limiting, retries, and error handling at scale.
• Proven workflow and system design skills, with the ability to architect complex multi-step automations, agentic workflows, and event-driven pipelines.
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs, including prompt engineering, RAG, tool use and function calling, evaluation frameworks, and cost and latency optimization.
• Data engineering fluency across JSON, CSV, SQL and NoSQL databases, vector stores, and ETL patterns for AI workloads.
• Familiarity with at least one major AI platform (Anthropic, OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, or similar) and the tradeoffs between them.
• Experience with orchestration and automation tools (n8n, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Temporal, or comparable frameworks).
• Strong debugging and observability instincts, including logging, tracing, and evaluating non-deterministic AI outputs.
• Self-direction, sound technical judgment, and the ability to mentor less experienced engineers.
• Must be U.S.-based.
• Cannot require sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Built personal projects combining multiple AI tools.
• Created content using AI (videos, podcasts, images, etc.).
• Automated personal tasks or workflows.
• Shared your experiments on social media or GitHub.
• Participated in AI communities or hackathons.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automated workflows using tools like n8n, Zapier, or Make.
• Integrate LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) into business processes.
• Create multimodal AI workflows combining text, voice, images, and video.
• Develop RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems to connect AI to company data.
• Work with voice-to-text, text-to-speech, and media generation tools.
• Create and optimize prompts for various AI applications.
• Design data pipelines and manage vector databases.
• Collaborate with teams to identify automation opportunities.

Benefits

• Remote work.
• Long-term 1099 contract at $50/hour.
• A collaborative project-driven team environment.
• Payment for necessary subscriptions (while using own equipment).
• Coding standards and reviews to help you improve.
• A tight-knit, collaborative, intellectually curious delivery team that will feel like Home.
• Celebration of diversity and commitment to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed