Senior AI Engineer

Senior AI Engineer

Austin, TX

About Osano:

Osano is an innovative B-Corporation built around a simple belief: privacy is a fundamental right. Since day one, we've been focused on giving modern enterprises the ability to innovate quickly, stay competitive, and earn customer trust by respecting data privacy and complying with consent guidelines. Our products help organizations operate confidently in a rapidly evolving regulatory and technological landscape.

About the Role:

We're looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join our Engineering team. This person will play a pivotal role in architecting and delivering privacy-first AI systems that power the next generation of Osano's product capabilities.

This role goes beyond wrapping APIs or building chat interfaces. You will design and deploy autonomous AI agents, strict-source-following RAG systems, and evaluation frameworks that ensure reliability, compliance, and production-grade performance.

This position is ideal for someone who is highly technical, thrives in ambiguity, takes ownership of 0→1 initiatives, and believes responsible AI development is non-negotiable.

Responsibilities:

AI System Architecture

• Architect and deploy autonomous AI agents and multi-agent workflows
• Design strict-source-following Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems that minimize hallucination and enforce citation integrity
• Implement guardrails, structured outputs, and validation layers

Production Engineering

• Build scalable backend services using FastAPI
• Orchestrate agentic workflows using LangGraph
• Deploy and manage AI workloads within AWS or Azure

Optimize model performance, reliability, and cost

Evaluation & Continuous Improvement

• Develop rigorous evaluation pipelines measuring:
• Accuracy
• Citation adherence
• Latency
• Reliability
• Establish metric-driven iteration cycles
• Continuously refine deployed systems based on measurable outcomes

Privacy-First Development

• Embed privacy-by-design principles across the AI stack
• Ensure compliance, data sovereignty, and secure handling practices
• Collaborate cross-functionally to align AI capabilities with regulatory standards

About You:

• You're curious, self-directed, and motivated to learn quickly.
• You're comfortable navigating ambiguity and creating clarity for others.
• You're excited about privacy, responsible AI, and building trustworthy technology.
• You are willing to relentlessly pursue the best, most responsible ways to leverage AI—without overselling its capabilities or ignoring its limitations.

Must-Haves:

• 5+ years of professional experience
• Experience deploying and managing AI workloads in AWS or Azure
• Deep technical understanding of LLM usage and orchestration beyond prompt engineering
• Strong expertise in Python AI ecosystem, specifically:
• FastAPI
• LangGraph
• Proven experience building:
• Complex RAG systems
• Autonomous AI agents
• Experience building evaluation frameworks and iterating based on performance metrics

Nice-to-Haves:

• Experience with Knowledge Graphs to enhance RAG precision
• Familiarity with Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
• Experience with data anonymization techniques
• Background in compliance-heavy or regulated environments

Why Us:

• We're a welcoming team that's dependable, curious, moves fast, and full of talented people
• We're a B-corporation with a mission that matters, in a high-growth space with significant potential
• You'll have access to our training program, well-defined career paths, and a leadership team that values professional development

Benefits:

• Competitive-pay compensation and ownership interest/equity
• Unlimited paid time off, plus a requirement to take at least two weeks off per year
• We're a Best Place for Working Parents and offer paid parental leave for all new parents
• Osano sponsors individual premiums on base plans at 100% and dependent premiums at 50% for Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance via Aetna
• A fully and permanently remote company, so you can work from anywhere in the U.S.
• Receive a MacBook and $600 to craft your home workspace
• Annual company trip designed to foster connection, creativity, and fun
• Mental health benefits with free memberships to mindfulness and talk therapy services

A Bit More About Osano:

Osano is a leading data privacy platform that helps organizations quickly and confidently comply with laws like GDPR, CCPA, and other global privacy regulations. From consent management to vendor risk monitoring, Osano makes complex privacy tasks refreshingly simple, so companies can focus on what they do best, while we handle the rest.

We're backed by top-tier investors, including Baird Capital, Jump Capital, and LiveOak, and we're scaling fast with a multi-year runway and ambitious growth plans. We've also been recognized as a Great Place to Work for four years running, with 97% of employees saying Osano is a great place to work.

As we grow, we're looking for individuals who lean into modern technologies and smarter systems to drive efficiency, clarity, and speed; both in our product and in how we operate. If you're excited by the idea of helping build a high-growth, privacy-first company that embraces thoughtful automation, emerging tech, and intentional collaboration, we'd love to hear from you.

Osano is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.