Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. First American is a leading company in the real estate industry, dedicated to fostering innovation and inclusivity. They are seeking a Senior AI Software Engineer to design and implement advanced AI systems, ensuring robust and scalable solutions that provide significant value to their customers.
Responsibilities
• Design and implement end-to-end AI systems, integrating foundation models into various applications and workflows.
• Apply and optimize model adaptation techniques, including prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning, to tailor foundation models for specific use cases.
• Develop and integrate AI architecture components such as context enhancement, input/output guardrails, model routers/gateways, caching mechanisms, and agent patterns to ensure system reliability and security.
• Implement AI pipeline orchestration to define and chain together different components of an AI system, ensuring seamless data flow and complex workflow execution.
• Optimize AI model inference for latency and cost, utilizing techniques such as quantization, distillation, and parallelism.
• Collaborate closely with Data Scientists to integrate trained models and with Data Engineers to ensure efficient data pipelines for AI applications.
• Contribute to defining and implementing systematic evaluation pipelines for AI applications, focusing on metrics such as factual consistency, generation capability, and instruction-following for open-ended outputs.
• Engage in continuous monitoring and observability of AI systems in production to detect failures and drifts, and to identify opportunities for improvement and cost savings.
• Assist in productizing AI-powered outputs and features, ensuring alignment with customer needs and product strategy.
Skills
• 5+ years of experience.
• Proven experience building applications with foundation models and deploying AI systems into production environments.
• Strong proficiency in prompt engineering, RAG, and finetuning techniques for model adaptation.
• Familiarity with AI architecture patterns and their practical implementation.
• Understanding of inference optimization techniques and experience with high-performance computing environments (e.g., GPUs).
• Knowledge of AI evaluation methodologies for open-ended models and experience setting up robust evaluation pipelines.
• Proficiency in programming languages commonly used in AI development, such as Python, with an understanding of relevant APIs and frameworks.
• Ability to work in an iterative, experimental environment and adapt to rapidly changing model capabilities and tools.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for working with diverse, cross-functional teams.
Benefits
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k
• PTO/paid sick leave
• Employee stock purchase plan
Company Overview
• First American provides financial services through its Title Insurance and Services segment and its Specialty Insurance segment. It was founded in 1889, and is headquartered in Santa Ana, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.firstam.com.
Company H1B Sponsorship
• First American has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2024, 2 in 2023, 1 in 2022, 2 in 2021, 5 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.