Nexxa

Applied AI Engineer

SF Bay area. Posted 5 months ago

The role

Applied AI Engineers work as forward deployed with customers to lead the end-to-end delivery of technical solutions. You will design and deploy systems leveraging Generative AI, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning.

What you will do

  • Engage with enterprise and strategic customers to understand workflows, data, and technical requirements.
  • Architect, build, and deploy custom solutions leveraging GenAI, LLMs, Machine Learning and Vision models.
  • Lead full project lifecycles including scoping, design, development, implementation, testing, deployment, and iteration.
  • Integrate and optimize AI/ML pipelines.
  • Build reliable, scalable software integrations using APIs, cloud services, and containerized systems.
  • Troubleshoot complex technical issues across the stack.
  • Act as the customer's trusted technical advisor.
  • Partner with internal product and engineering teams to communicate customer feedback.
  • Produce high-quality documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and technical assets.
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to internal best practices.

Required qualifications

  • 5–10+ years in engineering roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer, ML Engineer, Software Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Technical Consultant, or similar.
  • Strong proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or similar production-oriented languages.
  • Hands-on experience with Machine Learning, including training, fine-tuning, evaluating, or deploying models.
  • Direct experience with Generative AI (LLMs, multimodal models) and applying them to real-world problems.
  • Exposure to Computer Vision techniques (detection, segmentation, OCR, embeddings, multimodal pipelines).
  • Strong knowledge of ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, etc.).
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Comfort leading customer-facing engagements and guiding stakeholders through ambiguity.
  • Willingness and ability to travel frequently.

Nice to have

  • Prior experience in consulting, technical solutions, professional services, or customer-embedded technical roles.
  • Experience with vector databases, embedding pipelines, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
  • Experience building APIs, microservices, or distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with MLOps tools (Docker, Kubernetes, model registries, CI/CD for ML).
  • Background in deploying or fine-tuning CV models (YOLO, SAM, CLIP, DETR, etc.).
  • Experience in startup or high-growth environments.

Benefits

  • Innovative Environment
  • Collaborative Culture
  • Professional Growth
  • Competitive Compensation: salary and equity package

About the company

Nexxa.ai is building artificial super intelligence for heavy industries. The mission is to translate deep technical breakthroughs into operational reality for manufacturing, large-scale infrastructure, logistics and legacy environments.

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