AI Engineer

Tempus Unlimited, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that provides community-based services to empower children and adults with disabilities to live as independently as possible in the least restrictive environment. The agency, through its programs and services, encourages the inclusion of people with disabilities into the mainstream of society, including social, recreational, family and work activities.

Under limited supervision the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer performs maintenance and quantization's of AI models to deploy at scale to solve real world problems. Software engineering and product development tuning for production ready applications. The AI engineer's role is to ensure that Tempus Unlimited in-house AI system is secure, functioning at peak levels and using the most up to date hardware and software available.

• Salary $100,000.00 - $140,000.00
• Fully remote in these states only:
  • • Massachusetts (MA)
    • Florida (FL)
    • Ohio (OH)
    • Pennsylvania (PA)
• Core hours:
  • • Monday - Friday
    • 8:30am to 4:30pm
    • Possible after hours depending on need of project

Essential Functions

• Design and build LLM-Powered applications, Api's and agentic pipelines
• Work with network and system administrators to integrate AI models into production systems via REST API's & SDKS
• Develop RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems and semantic search features
• Fine-tune foundation models for specific use cases
• Model Development, Train, Evaluate and iterate on ML models using real-world datasets. Contribute to and maintain system standards
• Run track metrics and benchmark model performance
• Optimize and quantize models for latency and accuracy in production
• Build and maintain data pipelines that feed AI models
• Setup Monitoring alerting and logging for model health and drift
• Work with managers and system admins to define AI feature requirements and translate business problems into AI/ML solution designs
• Research and evaluate new models', frameworks and tools
• Document architecture experiments and decisions clearly
• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale
• Repair and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies
• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning
• Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with computer systems
• Performing routine audit of systems and software

Competencies

• Familiar with Python, SQL, ETL Pipeline, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Lama index and LangGraph
• Problem solving and analytic skills
• Ability to stay up to date on new systems and AI technologies
• Ability to work independently and be able to adjust to changing environments quickly
• Experience working in a 24/7 uptime environment
• Ability to train other staff
• Ability to maintain documentation on all systems related to AI
• Ability to work various small teams in and outside the IT department with shared responsibility
• Team Player
• Motivated and detail oriented
• Ability to work with limited direction and minimal oversight

Required Education

Minimum education requirement of a High School Degree or equivalent with relevant experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field required.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Must be able to lift 25 pounds

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and/or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

Travel

Travel is not required for this position.


Other Duties

Note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Benefits

Tempus Unlimited offers great benefits that foster a happy fulfilling human work experience. We also have an array of growth opportunities for our employees to develop your career and enhance your experience.

• Sign on bonus
• Work/Life Balance
• Paid time off - 25 days per year for full time staff
• 14 paid Holidays
• Tempus Wellness - Medical, Dental, Dependent Care Reimbursement, FSA and HSA
• Basic Life, Short Term and Long-Term Disability
• On-site gym (Stoughton Location) and wellness initiatives
• Annual Reviews with merit-based increases
• Employee Recognition Program
• Financial Wellness - 403(b) Retirement Plan with matching
• Continuing Education, Training and Advancement opportunities

Work Authorization/Security Clearance

All offers of employment made by Tempus Unlimited are contingent upon satisfactory background check results. Pre-employment background checks will be conducted on all candidates that are offered a position at the agency in compliance with program policy as well as state and federal regulations. From time to time, these checks may be conducted on current employees to ensure compliance with all state and federal regulations and contracts.

EEO Statement

Equal Employment Opportunity is a fundamental principle at Tempus Unlimited, Inc. where employment from recruiting through the end of employment is based upon professional capabilities and qualifications without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin, disability or any other characteristic as established by law. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.