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Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join our Belfast-based Data & AI Platform Team in building a next-generation data platform that leverages aPriori’s proprietary data to deliver powerful insights and AI capabilities.
As a Senior AI Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping and delivering AI-powered features within aPriori’s Data Platform, delivered via APIs and our product surfaces. You will design and implement production-grade solutions that leverage both generative AI with LLMs and traditional AI/ML. Working closely with Product Management and product teams, you will integrate AI capabilities into our products, enabling AI-powered insights, automation, and new user experiences that increase aPriori’s value to our customers.
This role is hands‑on and highly collaborative: you will design and implement LLM‑driven features, leverage and extend a modern data pipeline, and contribute to building scalable AI infrastructure using cloud-based AI/ML services such as AWS Bedrock/Sagemaker, GCP Vertex AI, TensorFlow, and PyTorch.
Location: United States (Candidates must be based in the Eastern Time Zone)
Responsibilities
* Design and build production‑ready AI/ML systems, with an emphasis on standard model LLM‑powered product and platform features.
* Leverage LLM tooling/APIs such as LangChain and MCP connectors to implement retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), copilot‑assistants, and agentic workflows.
* Partner with Product Management and product teams to translate requirements into AI‑powered capabilities that surface directly in user‑facing products.
* Apply MLOps and LLMOps best practices: monitoring, evaluation, prompt versioning, and cost/performance optimization.
* Combine traditional AI/ML with modern GenAI approaches to deliver hybrid solutions where appropriate.
* Collaborate with Data Engineers to establish a scalable data pipeline that serves structured data shaped for LLM consumption, feature‑store data for traditional AI, and Trad/GenAI‑enhanced insights for internal and customer‑facing BI use cases.
* Mentor and upskill peers in core AI/ML and LLMOps practices, raising the overall AI/ML competency of the team.
* Stay current with developments in GenAI, LLMOps, generative AI safety frameworks, and evaluate their potential for adoption within the platform.
Requirements
* Hands‑on familiarity with prompt engineering by leveraging LLM frameworks such as LangChain.
* Strong programming skills in Python and familiarity with modern data/ML pipelines.
* Solid understanding of data engineering practices (ETL/ELT, streaming, orchestration with Airflow/Temporal, dbt, Kafka, etc.).
* Knowledge of LLMOps/MLOps practices: CI/CD for ML, model monitoring, drift detection, evaluation metrics, governance.
* Strong collaboration and communication skills: able to partner with Product, Platform, and Data teams to drive AI features from concept to production.
* Demonstrated ability to mentor and upskill engineers, particularly in data/ML workflows.
* Skilled in designing/building/deploying/operating LLM standard model‑powered features in production (chatbots, copilots, RAG systems, agents).
* Proficient in working with traditional cloud AI/ML platforms such as Amazon Sagemaker, GCP Vertex AI, or Azure ML and frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit‑learn.
Education and Experience
* 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years in traditional AI/ML and 1+ year building LLM applications on standard models.
* Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).
aPriori Offers
A team environment where your experience is valued, your voice is heard, and the work that you do makes an impact for our customers and employees. aPriori offers competitive compensation in a dynamic, growing innovative environment. A competitive benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision for employees and their dependents, life, disability, flexible spending accounts, 401k match, career‑growth opportunities, flexible time, and paid time off benefits – including aPriori days, and more!
About aPriori
Founded in 2003, aPriori is disrupting the industry’s status quo with groundbreaking work helping manufacturers digitally transform their businesses. Through our unique, patented, intellectual property, we enable manufacturers to accelerate product design, and bring products to markets faster while providing visibility to the sustainability of their design and manufacturing choices. Our impact is profound – our customers save millions of dollars each year, accelerate time to market, all while creating a better world for future generations. Though we are an established software firm, through our continued growth, we have maintained the dynamic, collaborative nature of a start‑up.
With a global presence, including North America, Europe, Asia, and India, we encourage an inclusive work environment and support employees’ growth through education, training, wellness, and other programs. As our greatest asset, employees’ contributions are acknowledged through monthly company‑wide meetings, often with promotions and awards. We promote a positive work culture, employee‑friendly policies, flexible work schedules, pub nights, and an additional day off each quarter known as “aPriori Day”.
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Seniority level
* Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
* Full‑time
Job function
* Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
* Software Development
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