Senior Applied AI Engineer [NYC or SF]

Amigo•San Francisco, CA

3d•$200,000 - $260,000•Onsite

About The Position

As an Senior Applied AI Engineer at Amigo, you'll lead the technical delivery of customer deployments end to end. You'll set the architecture, break big ambiguous problems into work a team can own, commit the timelines, and hold the bar for what ships. It's a hands-on role at the intersection of engineering, product, and the customer.

Requirements

You've broken hard, ambiguous problems into work other engineers could own and deliver
You have real experience with LLMs and agent systems, or the depth to get there fast
You have the judgment to make tradeoffs and the standing to say no when something doesn’t hold up
You lead well, whether through architecture, through people, or both
You're low ego, direct, and hold yourself and your team to a high bar
You can work on site in New York City or San Francisco

Nice To Haves

Experience in a regulated or high-reliability domain (healthcare, finance, legal)
Experience shipping production AI or ML systems
Background in customer-facing or forward-deployed engineering

Responsibilities

Leading an AI deployment for a major healthcare customer, from first conversation to production
Turning an ambiguous customer need into a clear technical plan with owners and timelines
Making the calls on tradeoffs: what to build now, what to reuse, and what to push back on
Working directly with customers to keep scope, timelines, and quality honest