AI Engineer

About Ascendion

Ascendion is an AI-native software engineering disruptor helping businesses innovate faster, smarter, and with greater impact. We partner with enterprise clients across North America, the UK, Europe, and APAC to solve complex challenges in data, experience design, software product engineering, and workforce transformation. Powered by expert engineers, thousands of AI agents, and our Engineering to the Power of AI (EngineeringAI) method, we deliver measurable outcomes that build trust, unlock value, and accelerate growth.

Learn more at https://ascendion.com/.

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Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for the world’s leading brands
• Solve complex problems - and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience

Experience a community of change makers!

Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

About the Role:

We are looking for a highly hands-on AI Engineer who can move quickly from idea to production. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with practical experience building Agentic AI solutions, developing AI-powered applications, and evaluating model and agent performance.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working in an environment with evolving requirements, experimenting with new AI models and tools, and taking ownership of solutions end-to-end across the frontend, backend, and AI layers.

You will have significant autonomy to make technical and product decisions, rapidly prototype ideas, and turn successful concepts into scalable production solutions.

Job Title: AI EngineerKey Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy Agentic AI applications and AI-powered products.
• Develop end-to-end solutions spanning frontend, backend, APIs, AI services, and data/integration layers.
• Build and integrate AI agents using modern LLMs, agent frameworks, tools, and orchestration patterns.
• Design and implement evaluation frameworks and automated evals to measure agent and model quality, accuracy, reliability, and performance.
• Rapidly prototype new AI capabilities and turn successful prototypes into production-ready solutions.
• Develop backend services, APIs, and integrations using Python and/or TypeScript.
• Contribute to frontend development when required to deliver complete end-to-end experiences.
• Make pragmatic architecture and product decisions when requirements are incomplete or evolving.
• Work independently to identify problems, evaluate potential solutions, and drive implementation.
• Experiment with emerging AI models, frameworks, coding tools, and techniques.
• Leverage AI-assisted development and coding tools extensively to improve engineering productivity.
• Build reusable components, tools, and patterns for future AI applications.
• Monitor and continuously improve AI applications in production.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including design, development, debugging, testing, and deployment.
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript, with modern full-stack development experience.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying Agentic AI applications.
• Experience working with LLMs, AI agents, tool calling, orchestration, and AI application development.
• Experience designing and running AI/model/agent evaluations (evals).
• Ability to build solutions end-to-end, from prototype through production.
• Comfortable working across frontend, backend, APIs, and AI services as required.
• Ability to operate effectively with incomplete or ambiguous requirements.
• Strong independent problem-solving and technical decision-making skills.
• Experience rapidly prototyping and iterating on new ideas.
• Demonstrated ability to learn and adopt new AI technologies quickly.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with modern agent frameworks and AI orchestration platforms.
• Experience building production-grade AI applications.
• Familiarity with RAG, vector databases, tool use, and AI workflow orchestration.
• Experience with AI evaluation methodologies and observability.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with containers, APIs, microservices, and modern deployment practices.

Location: RemoteSalary and Other Compensation:

The annual [salary/hourly rate] for this position is between [$200,000 - 220,000 annually]/[$110.00-120.00 per hour]. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits:

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year]

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