Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ode is a technology studio focused on providing data, AI, and design capabilities to mission-driven clients like scientists and nonprofits. They are seeking an AI Applications Engineer to build AI-powered tools, owning the architecture and implementation of projects while collaborating with various stakeholders to meet client needs.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build AI-powered tools end-to-end: from the AI workflows through to the user experience
• Act as a tech lead on client engagements, drawing support from additional engineering contractors in our roster as needed to make a product successful
• Build and maintain retrieval pipelines, agent architectures, and model integrations tuned to the specific client domain
• Design evaluation criteria and implement evaluations for your workflows
• Assess data sources for quality and usability - satellite imagery, sensor feeds, government datasets - and process them into usable formats
• Implement test suites and documentation that ensure long-term reliability and smooth handoffs to clients
• Work closely with UI design, project managers, and clients to define requirements and deliver iteratively
• Work with platform engineers to bring your code to production

Skills

• You've built AI-powered applications end-to-end and have opinions about how to do it well
• You're comfortable owning a client engagement technically: making architecture calls, managing scope, and knowing when to ask for help
• You can move between AI workflows and application code
• Can evaluate the simplest model or ML approach to achieve the goal
• You've worked with messy, real-world data and know how to assess it before building on top of it
• You design evaluations as part of the work, not as an afterthought
• You can work with designers and non-technical clients and translate what they need into what you build
• Want your work to do something that matters

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