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Senior AI Engineer - Observability

OnBoard
Location
United States
Posted
23 days ago
Department
Engineering
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building production systems
  • Hands-on experience building or operating LLM-powered features, RAG systems, AI workflows, or similar AI applications
  • Strong engineering ability in Python, C#/.NET, or both
  • Practical understanding of prompts, embeddings, vector search, retrieval quality, orchestration patterns, and LLM application architecture
  • Experience designing evaluations, quality metrics, or regression frameworks for AI or software systems
  • Strong observability fundamentals: tracing, logging, metrics, alerting, and production debugging
Nice to have
  • Experience with LLMOps or AI observability tools such as Arize, Langfuse, LangSmith, W&B, Humanloop, or Helicone
  • Experience with OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, or similar observability platforms
  • Experience with Azure AI Search, Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, pgvector, or other vector search platforms
  • Experience with Semantic Kernel, LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, or related frameworks
  • Experience with LLM-as-judge evaluation, RAG evaluation, semantic similarity metrics, hallucination detection, groundedness scoring, or human-feedback workflows
What the job really is

The Senior AI Engineer for Observability at OnBoard will focus on building and improving AI-powered product systems, ensuring their reliability and quality in production. This role involves designing evaluation pipelines, monitoring AI performance, and collaborating with product engineering teams to enhance AI features using technologies like LLMs and RAG. The engineer will also be responsible for establishing observability standards and ensuring compliance with data handling requirements.

Benefits
  • Fully remote work with company provided equipment (laptop, software, etc.)
  • Comprehensive, high-quality medical/prescription drug plan options, as well as dental and vision plan offerings
  • Employer contribution to Health Savings Account (HSA) if you participate in a High Deductible Healthcare Plan
  • Medical Flexible Spending Accounts available
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts available
  • Basic life insurance in the amount of $50,000 or 1 X’s your salary (whichever is higher)
Things to weigh
  • The role emphasizes hands-on engineering and building AI systems, which may not suit candidates looking for a purely observational role.
  • The position requires a strong focus on quality and observability, which could lead to high expectations and pressure to deliver reliable AI features.
  • No specific salary range is provided, which may require candidates to inquire during the interview process.
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Career value5/5
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