Applied AI Engineering Lead

The role

The Applied AI Engineering Lead will own how artificial intelligence is applied, evaluated, and operationalized across the product. You will lead the development of AI-powered features to turn complex data into trusted capabilities.

What you will do

• Lead the design and deployment of customer facing AI features across Peregrine’s platform
• Translate real operational problems into deployable AI-powered solutions
• Partner with Product, Deployment Strategists, and other Engineering teams to integrate AI into core workflows
• Own and guide fine tuning strategies and reinforcement learning to improve decision quality
• Make principled tradeoffs between classical ML, deep learning, and LLM-based approaches
• Shape Peregrine’s AI infrastructure including training and inference pipelines
• Ensure models are observable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective in production
• Define and operate robust evaluation frameworks
• Own monitoring, drift detection, and failure analysis for deployed models
• Build and lead a high-performing Applied AI/ML team

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated experience shipping AI-powered features into production, ideally in enterprise or mission critical environments
• Hands-on experience with model fine tuning (LLMs or deep learning models)
• Practical exposure to reinforcement learning
• Experience in designing and operating AI/ML infrastructure
• Direct ownership of model evaluation, experimentation, and quality measurement
• Strong software engineering fundamentals as a lead

Nice to have

• Experience working with large scale and/or real-time data platforms
• Background in domains where trust, explainability, and reliability matter (e.g., public sector, security, healthcare, finance)
• Led software engineering teams before

About the company

Peregrine helps public safety organizations, state and local and governments, federal agencies, and private-sector institutions address society’s challenges with an AI-enabled platform. The company supports hundreds of customers across 30+ states and two countries.