Senior AI Engineer

The role

This person will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of production-ready AI systems within the ION Factory OS. They will ship customer-facing features and architect scalable software systems including AI/ML pipelines.

What you will do

• Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of production-ready AI systems within the ION Factory OS.
• Ship customer-facing features including AI-driven functionality and core product features.
• Architect and maintain scalable software systems, including AI/ML pipelines and broader product infrastructure.
• Design and implement AI features using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines.
• Leverage Model Context Protocol (MCP) and similar frameworks to connect AI models with data sources and tools.
• Collaborate with product managers and customers to translate challenges into software solutions.
• Partner with data engineering to process and transform manufacturing data.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability of all systems in production.
• Stay ahead of advancements in software engineering and AI.
• Mentor junior engineers and help raise the technical bar across the team.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years shipping AI/ML-powered products into production
• Proven track record of building and shipping customer-facing applications
• Experience architecting scalable systems on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Expertise in data modeling, preprocessing, and model evaluation at scale
• Familiarity with generative AI models (LLMs, diffusion models, GANs)
• Strong knowledge of APIs and modern software design patterns for integrating AI into SaaS products
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Passion for AI innovation paired with the ability to deliver non-AI product functionality

Nice to have

• Experience building AI systems for real-time, low-latency, or edge deployments
• Familiarity with modern data governance, privacy, and compliance standards (SOC2, GDPR, ITAR)
• Hands-on experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• Understanding of and/or experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar emerging standards
• Customer-facing experience gathering requirements, presenting solutions, and demonstrating value
• Contributions to open-source projects or published research in applied AI/ML
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to engineering best practices

Benefits

• Health Insurance; medical, vision, dental, & life insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Option Plan
• Team outings, group lunches, open office, happy hours
• Paid holidays, sick days
• Flexible Friday and PTO
• 401K

Before you apply

• New hire's Form I-9 information will be shared with the federal government to confirm authorization to work in the U.S.
• First Resonance participates in E-Verify

About the company

First Resonance accelerates the speed and reliability of hardware development for companies manufacturing next generation hardware products. They are a group of software, hardware, and manufacturing engineers providing tools to manufacturing engineers and operators.