AI Engineer, Senior

Pathward, N.A.

5d•$86,000 - $145,000•Remote

About The Position

The Senior AI Engineer researches, develops, and implements artificial intelligence solutions that enable machines to perceive, reason, learn, and make decisions. The role identifies opportunities to use AI, optimizes existing models or develops custom solutions, prepares data for training, trains and validates models, and integrates AI technologies into existing workflows. The position works with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical AI solutions, support production deployments, and communicate complex AI concepts to non-technical audiences. The listed responsibilities are not all inclusive and may change at any time.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and work experience.
Typically, 5+ years of experience with a bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Research, design, and develop artificial intelligence and machine learning models to solve business challenges.
Identify opportunities to use AI technologies, assess existing workflows, and recommend solutions that improve efficiency, accuracy, and business outcomes.
Collect, prepare, and preprocess data for model training, including cleaning data, engineering features, exploratory analysis, and establishing data pipelines.
Train, validate, and optimize models using appropriate algorithms, frameworks, and evaluation metrics; support model robustness, performance, accuracy, bias mitigation, and ethical AI practices.
Integrate AI solutions into existing systems, applications, and workflows using APIs, microservices, or interfaces that support deployment and scalability.
Monitor and maintain deployed models through performance tracking, troubleshooting, and iterative improvements.
Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions and explain AI concepts to non-technical audiences.
Perform other duties as assigned.