Applied AI Engineer at Mission US
United States
<meta><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">About the role</strong></b></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="color:black;background-color:white;white-space:pre-wrap;">Applied </strong></b><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">AI Engineer</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> will play a key role in designing, implementing, and scaling Mission's enterprise AI platform and intelligent automation capabilities as part of our AI transformation strategy. This hands-on engineering role will focus on building production-ready AI applications, developing agentic workflows, integrating large language models (LLMs) and machine learning services, and enabling AI-powered experiences across underwriting, operations, finance, HR and other business functions. The ideal candidate will collaborate across technology and business teams to develop secure, scalable, and reusable AI solutions while establishing best practices for AI engineering, governance, and operational excellence. This role is highly technical and execution-focused, making it ideal for an AI engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about applying generative AI, automation, and modern AI engineering practices to solve complex business challenges at scale.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="background-color:white;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Essential Duties/Functions:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI solutions using large language models (LLMs), AI agents, latest memory and context management patterns, and machine learning techniques.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Build intelligent workflows and AI-powered applications that automate business processes across underwriting, operations, finance, and other enterprise functions.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:7pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Develop and maintain scalable AI services using modern cloud-native architectures.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:7pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Integrate AI capabilities with enterprise platforms including policy administration, submission management, data platforms, document management, and external data providers.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Design and implement prompt engineering, orchestration frameworks, vector databases, and knowledge retrieval solutions to improve AI performance and reliability.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Evaluate, fine-tune, and optimize foundation models and AI workflows for accuracy, latency, scalability, and cost efficiency.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Develop evaluation frameworks, automated testing, and monitoring capabilities to measure AI quality, hallucination rates, response accuracy, and overall system performance.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Implement AI guardrails, security controls, governance standards, and responsible AI practices to ensure compliant and trustworthy AI solutions.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Collaborate with product owners, business stakeholders, business analysts, and engineers to translate business requirements into scalable AI solutions.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Build solutions including AI models from providers such as Anthropic and OpenAI to solve intelligence problems, automate and streamline processes for the business.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Leverage development augmentation tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, and others to learn, plan, design, and build effectively.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:7pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Build reusable AI components, SDKs, and engineering frameworks that enable rapid delivery of enterprise capabilities.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:7pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Use databases such as MongoDB and Databricks to store and process data.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Optimize AI infrastructure, inference pipelines, and orchestration workflows for high availability, resilience, and operational efficiency.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Stay current with emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and best practices, recommending new capabilities that can enhance Mission's AI strategy.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Support production AI systems by monitoring performance, troubleshooting issues, and continuously improving solution quality and business outcomes.</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Required Qualifications:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:7pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">3+ years of experience in software engineering, AI engineering, machine learning, or a related technical field, with at least 2 years designing and delivering production AI solutions.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:7pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Hands-on experience building enterprise applications using Large Language Models (LLMs), AI memory and context management, AI agents, prompt engineering, and orchestration frameworks.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with deploying applied AI features and related cloud-native technologies.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Strong programming skills in Python or JavaScript, with experience developing RESTful APIs, microservices, and scalable distributed applications.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience integrating AI solutions with enterprise systems using REST APIs, event-driven architectures, vector databases, and knowledge repositories.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Familiarity with modern AI or orchestration frameworks.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience implementing AI evaluation, monitoring, observability, and testing frameworks to measure model quality, reliability, latency, and cost.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Understanding of Responsible AI principles, security, governance, prompt safety, model access controls, and enterprise AI compliance.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with Git, GitLab/GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps/MLOps practices for deploying AI applications.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience working with Databricks, SQL Server, or other enterprise data platforms.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with modern cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Demonstrated ability to translate complex business problems into scalable, secure, and production-ready AI solutions while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Preferred Qualifications:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience developing AI solutions for the property & casualty insurance industry, including underwriting, submissions, or policy administration.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP), enterprise AI agents, multi-agent systems, vector databases, and modern AI engineering platforms</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with different departments</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Ability to travel up to 10% of the year.</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Working Conditions:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Requires a quiet work environment with regular sitting at a computer for extended periods of time.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Regular use of hands and fingers.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Frequent talking or hearing.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Vision requirements: Close, distance, color, peripheral, focus and depth perception.</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0px 0px 0in;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="color:black;background-color:white;font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Additional Information</strong></b><br><br><b><strong style="color:black;background-color:white;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">This is a remote position. Planned, in-office activities may be required on occasion (typically 2-4x per year).</strong></b></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0px 0px 0in;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="color:black;background-color:white;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">You must live in the United States and be authorized to work in the United States without requirement of employment</strong></b><b><strong style="font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </strong></b><b><strong style="color:black;background-color:white;white-space:pre-wrap;">sponsorship/visa.</strong></b></p>
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