AI Engineer

AI Engineer

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DATE POSTED

3 days ago

SCHEDULE

Full-time

JOB CODE

4823 EMPLOYEE STATUS Regular GRADE L REQUISITION ID 109149 WORK

ARRANGEMENT

Hybrid Eligible Are you an experienced AIGenAI engineer who loves shipping real systems? Join Stanford's Enterprise Technology team to design, implement, and support AI solutions across university use cases. In this role, you will influence strategic direction requirements and architecture for AI‑driven information systems, incorporating new capabilities (LLMs, RAG, agentic frameworks, MLOps) to improve workflow, efficiency, and decision-making. You may serve as the technical lead for specific AI tracks and interrelated applications. This role blends hands-on engineering with mentorship and thought leadership. You will prototype and productionize—presenting proofs of concept, demoing solutions to stakeholders, and partnering with project managers, technical managers, architects, security, infrastructure, and application teams (ServiceNow, Salesforce, Oracle Financials, etc.)

Core Duties:

AIML System Implementation & Integration:

Translate requirements into well-engineered components (pipelines, vector stores, promptagent logic, evaluation hooks) and implement them in partnership with the platformarchitecture team.

Application & Agent Development:

Build and maintain LLM-based agentsservices that securely call enterprise tools (ServiceNow, Salesforce, Oracle, etc.) using approved APIs and tool-calling frameworks. Create lightweight internal SDKsutilities where needed.

RAG & Search Enablement:

Configure and optimize RAG workflows (chunking, embeddings, metadata filters) and integrate with existing searchvector infrastructure—escalating architecture changes to designated architects.

MLOps & SDLC Practices:

Follow and improve team standards for CICD, testing, promptmodel versioning, and observability. Own feature delivery through devtestprod, coordinating with release managers.

Governance, Security & Compliance:

established guardrails (PII redaction, policy checks, access controls). Partner with InfoSec and architects to close gaps; document decisions and risks.

Metrics & Reporting:

Instrument services with KPIs (latency, cost, accuracyquality) and build lightweight dashboards. Deep BIreporting not primary.

Documentation & Communication:

Write clear technical docs (APIs, workflows, runbooks), user stories, and acceptance criteria. Support and sometimes lead UATtest activities.

Collaboration & Mentorship:

Facilitate working sessions with stakeholders; mentor junior engineers through code reviews and pair programming; provide concise updates and risk flags.

Education & Experience:

Bachelor's degree and eight years relevant experience, or a combination of education and relevant experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

AgentAgentic Framework Experience:

Built and shipped at least one production LLM agent or agentic workflow using frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAIAutoGen, Google Agent BuilderVertex AI Agents (or equivalent). Able to explain tool selection, orchestration logic, and post‑deployment support.

Proven Delivery:

Implemented 3+ AIML projects and 2+ GenAILLM projects in production, with operational support (monitoring, tuning, incident response). Projects should serve sizable user populations and demonstrate measurable efficiency gains. Strong understanding of AIML concepts (LLMstransformers and classical ML) and experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying AI-driven applications.

Programming Expertise:

Python (primary) plus experience with Node.jsNext.jsReactTypeScript and Java; demonstrated ability to quickly learn new toolsframeworks. Experience with cloud AI stacks (e.g., Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI) and vectorsearch technologies (Pinecone, ElasticOpenSearch, FAISS, Milvus, etc.). Knowledge of data designarchitecture, relational and NoSQL databases, and data modeling. Thorough understanding of SDLC, MLOps, and quality control practices. Ability to definesolve logical problems for highly technical applications; strong problem-solving and systematic troubleshooting skills. Excellent communication, listening, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills; ability to bridge functional and technical resources.

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

MLOps Tooling:

MLflow, Kubeflow, Vertex Pipelines, SageMaker Pipelines; LangSmithPromptLayerWeights & Biases.

Open Source Savvy:

Experience working with, customizing, and improving open-source solutions; comfortable contributing fixesfeatures upstream.

Rapid Tech Adoption:

Demonstrated ability to pick up a new technologyframework quickly and deliver production value with it.

GenAI Frameworks:

LangChain, LlamaIndex, DSPy, Haystack, LangGraph, Agent Engine, Google

ADK, AWS

AgentCore, CrewAIAutoGen.

Security & Governance:

Implementing AI guardrails, red-teaming, policy enforcement frameworks.

Enterprise Integrations:

ServiceNow, Salesforce, Oracle Financials or others.

UI Development:

ReactNext.jsTailwind for internal tools. Prompt engineering at scale: Structured prompts (JSONfunction-calling), templates, version control; automatedoffline & online evals (rubrics, hallucinationbias checks, AB tests, golden sets). Parameter‑efficient fine‑tuning (LoRAQLoRAadapters), supervised instruction tuning; hosting open‑weight models (LlamaMistralQwen) with vLLMTGIOllama. Safetyguardrails frameworks (Guardrails.ai, NeMo Guardrails, AzureAWS safety filters) and jailbreakdrift detection. Hybrid search & reranking (BM25+dense, CohereVoyageJina rerankers), synthetic data generation, provenancewatermarking. Telemetry & governance: promptmodel drift monitoring, policy‑as‑code, audit logging, red‑teaming playbooks.

Certifications and Licenses:

Required:

One of (or equivalent experience with): GoogleAWSAzure MLAI certifications or strong demonstrable portfolio of production AI systems. Physical Requirements•: Constantly perform desk-based computer tasks. Frequently sit, grasp lightlyfine manipulation. Occasionally standwalk, writing by hand. Rarely use a telephone, liftcarrypushpull objects that weigh up to 10 pounds. • Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should contact Stanford University Human Resources by submitting a contact form.

Working Conditions:

May work extended hours, evenings, and weekends.

Work Standards:

Interpersonal Skills:

Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.

Promote Culture of Safety:

Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned. Subject to and expected to stay in sync with all applicable University policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies and other policies found in Stanford's Administrative Guide, adminguide.stanford.edu. The expected pay range for this position is $169,728 to $194,585 per annum. Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of the salary or hourly wage the university reasonably expects to pay for a position upon hire. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs. At Stanford University, base pay represents only one aspect of the comprehensive rewards package. The Cardinal at Work website provides detailed information on Stanford's extensive range of benefits and rewards offered to employees. Specifics about the rewards package for this position may be discussed during the hiring process. Why Stanford is for you: Imagine a world without search engines or social platforms. Consider lives saved through first-ever organ transplants and research to cure illnesses. Stanford University has revolutionized the way we live and enrich the world. Supporting this mission is our diverse and dedicated 17,000 staff. We seek talent driven to impact the future of our legacy. Our culture and unique perks empower you with: Freedom to grow. We offer career development programs, tuition reimbursement, or audit a course. Join a TedTalk, film screening, or listen to a renowned author or global leader speak. A caring culture. We provide superb retirement plans, generous time-off, and family care resources. A healthier you. Climb our rock wall, or choose from hundreds of health or fitness classes at our world-class exercise facilities. We also provide excellent health care benefits. Discovery and fun. Stroll through historic sculptures, trails, and museums. Enviable resources. Enjoy free commuter programs, ridesharing incentives, discounts and more! The job duties listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification and are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary depending on department or program needs without changing the general nature and scope of the job or level of responsibility. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned. Stanford is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.