AI / ML Engineer
Company: Haystack
Location: Location not specified (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-09-29
About this role
A strategic advisory and technology firm that partners with companies on high-impact transformation and technology initiatives, working closely with executive and technology leaders to solve complex problems and turn strategy into working solutions, is seeking a talented individual.
The Role
- Design and build production-grade AI and machine learning systems
- Develop applications and services using LLMs and foundation models
- Build RAG, semantic search, embeddings, retrieval, and knowledge systems
- Design agentic and tool-using AI workflows
- Integrate AI capabilities into existing enterprise applications and systems
- Optimize AI systems for reliability, latency, scalability, and cost
What You'll Need
- Strong professional software engineering experience with ownership of production engineering work
- Demonstrated experience building and shipping AI, LLM, or machine learning systems in production
- Strong Python development skills and understanding of software architecture, APIs, and distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with leading LLMs, foundation model platforms, and concepts like RAG, embeddings, and vector search
- Experience deploying and operating production workloads in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Ability to reason through ambiguous technical problems and make sound engineering decisions with strong communication skills
What's On Offer
- Competitive hourly compensation based on experience for an independent contractor (1099) position
- Remote work within the United States
- Opportunity to work on complex, production-grade enterprise AI initiatives
- Collaborate with experienced engineers, architects, and delivery leaders with exposure to diverse enterprise environments
Apply via Haystack today!