Senior AI Engineer

SailPoint • Austin, TX

7d

About The Position

As an AI Engineer, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy cutting-edge AI solutions with a focus on Generative AI and autonomous systems. This role requires a strong foundation in ML engineering, along with experience building applications with FMs and related concepts such as RAG, fine-tuning, agents, and distillation.

The AI team at SailPoint applies AI and domain expertise to create AI solutions that solve real problems in identity governance. We believe the path to success is through meaningful customer outcomes, and we leverage traditional AI/ML as well as recent innovations in Generative AI and Graph ML to bring our solutions to SailPoint’s core product lines.

90 Days ● Deeply understand the SailPoint AI vision and Generative AI initiatives. ● Onboard onto our AI Platform tech stack. ● Develop or evaluate a working prototype of an AI agent using existing models/tools.

6 months: ● Deliver or contribute to a fully functional GenAI-powered feature. ● Optimize existing AI pipelines to ensure robust training, evaluation, and deployment. ● Collaborate with the AI and product teams to identify key use cases for GenAI.

1 year: ● Lead the development of a new FM-based capability from ideation to deployment. ● Drive AI innovation by rapidly incorporating advancements in FM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, agent-based systems, etc. into our product and platform. ● Establish repeatable frameworks for evaluating GenAI and agent-based features in production, emphasizing business impact and risk mitigation. ● Collaborate with partners to deliver thoughtful integrations between traditional ML and agent-based systems that provide a seamless and autonomous user experience.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience building and deploying ML models in production at scale.
• Recent experience with Generative AI models and techniques, such as LLMs, fine-tuning, RAG, prompt engineering, guardrails, distillation, and agent frameworks.
• Can-do attitude with a focus on delivering measurable business impact.
• Strong technical communicator who can convey complex topics to different audiences.
• B.S. in Computer Science, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Deliver or contribute to a fully functional GenAI-powered feature.
• Optimize existing AI pipelines to ensure robust training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Collaborate with the AI and product teams to identify key use cases for GenAI.
• Lead the development of a new FM-based capability from ideation to deployment.
• Drive AI innovation by rapidly incorporating advancements in FM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, agent-based systems, etc. into our product and platform.
• Establish repeatable frameworks for evaluating GenAI and agent-based features in production, emphasizing business impact and risk mitigation.
• Collaborate with partners to deliver thoughtful integrations between traditional ML and agent-based systems that provide a seamless and autonomous user experience.

Benefits

• Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability
• Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
• Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children
• Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account
• Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching
• Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy
• Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually
• Sick leave
• Parental support: Paid parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors
• Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level