Senior AI Engineer
WFA Digital Insight
As the demand for AI-driven solutions continues to skyrocket, with over 75% of companies investing in AI technologies by 2025, the need for skilled Senior AI Engineers has never been more pressing. Sigma Software stands out in this space by focusing on cutting-edge AI-powered Knowledge Base and Gap Analysis platforms for SysML-based environments. Candidates looking to leverage their expertise in building scalable AI systems, with a strong grasp of languages like Golang and experience with distributed data processing, will find this role particularly compelling. Before applying, it's crucial to understand the complex technical landscape and the importance of collaboration in cross-functional engineering teams.
Job Description
About the Role
The Senior AI Engineer position at Sigma Software is centered around designing and developing scalable AI-powered backend systems for SysML-based engineering environments. This involves building and maintaining distributed data ingestion and ETL pipelines, optimizing LLM-powered workflows, and implementing AI agents. The role is crucial for delivering impactful solutions that transform how large-scale engineering organizations manage and analyze complex technical data.Day-to-day, the Senior AI Engineer will work closely with cross-functional engineering teams to integrate AI capabilities into platform services, focusing on scalability, high-performance, and reliability. The role demands a strong understanding of RAG architectures, semantic retrieval workflows, and experience with cloud-native infrastructure.
As part of the team, the Senior AI Engineer will participate in architecture discussions, technical decision-making processes, and contribute to cloud-native infrastructure and deployment workflows. This includes supporting deployments in secure, air-gapped, or classified environments when required.
What You Will Do
- Design and develop scalable AI-powered backend systems for SysML-based engineering environments.
- Build and maintain distributed data ingestion and ETL pipelines for large-scale engineering artifacts and technical documentation.
- Develop and optimize LLM-powered workflows for metadata extraction, semantic analysis, and entity resolution.
- Implement AI agents and multi-agent orchestration workflows.
- Design and improve RAG-based architectures and semantic retrieval pipelines.
- Develop graph-based knowledge representation and traceability analysis solutions.
- Work with graph databases, graph processing libraries, and semantic relationship modeling.
- Build and optimize distributed data processing workflows using Apache Spark.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to integrate AI capabilities into platform services.
- Design scalable and high-performance APIs and backend services.
- Improve system reliability, scalability, observability, and performance across distributed environments.
- Participate in architecture discussions and technical decision-making processes.
- Contribute to cloud-native infrastructure and deployment workflows.
- Support deployments in secure, air-gapped, or classified environments when required.
- Create and maintain technical documentation and engineering best practices.
What We Are Looking For
- At least 5 years of commercial experience in software engineering, Data Engineering, or AI systems development.
- Experience with Golang.
- Hands-on experience building distributed and scalable systems.
- Practical experience with LLM-based applications and AI integrations.
- Experience building AI agents and multi-agent systems.
- Strong understanding of RAG architectures and semantic retrieval workflows.
- Strong understanding of ETL pipelines and large-scale data ingestion workflows.
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and distributed environments.
- Practical experience with backend platform development and API integrations.
- Good understanding of semantic search, entity resolution, and metadata extraction.
- Experience working with highly scalable and high-performance systems.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
- Upper-Intermediate level of English.
Nice to Have
- Background in Data Engineering.
- Experience with distributed data processing, Apache Spark, or Apache Beam.
- Experience with Knowledge Graphs and graph-based semantic modeling.
- Familiarity with MBSE or SysML environments.
- Experience supporting air-gapped or classified environments.
- Experience with vector databases and embedding pipelines.
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Benefits and Perks
- Competitive salary package.
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI-driven projects.
- Collaboration with a talented team of professionals.
- Flexible remote work arrangements across Europe, Ukraine, and LATAM.
- Professional development and growth opportunities.
- Access to the latest technologies and tools.
- Recognition and reward for outstanding performance.
- Comprehensive health insurance package.
- Generous paid time off policy.
- Remote work stipend to support your home office setup.
How to Stand Out
- Ensure your portfolio highlights specific examples of designing and developing scalable AI-powered backend systems, especially those related to SysML-based engineering environments.
- Familiarize yourself with the latest trends in AI, machine learning, and data engineering to stand out in your application and during interviews.
- Prepare to discuss your experience with distributed data processing, Apache Spark, and cloud-native infrastructure, as these are key to the role.
- Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly, as these are crucial for success in this position.
- Be ready to discuss your approach to building and maintaining distributed data ingestion and ETL pipelines, and how you optimize LLM-powered workflows.
- Show enthusiasm for working in a collaborative environment and contributing to the development of innovative AI-driven solutions.
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