[Remote] Staff Applied AI Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Collectors is hiring a Staff Applied AI Engineer to own an AI business domain, identify and prioritize opportunities, and build solutions from prototype through production. The role also establishes reusable AI patterns, measures portfolio-level business impact, and supports other engineers through technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own a business domain, not just a use case. You'll be accountable for the AI opportunity across an entire lane (for example Operations, Marketplace, or Finance): mapping the workflows, sizing the opportunities, and deciding what gets built, in what order, and why
• Build the hardest use cases yourself. You spend the majority of your time hands-on. You take the first, riskiest, or most technically demanding builds in your lane from prototype through production, adoption, and measured impact
• Turn one-off wins into reusable patterns. You notice when three builds share a shape, extract the common asset (a connector, an eval harness, a workflow pattern), and make it something every builder on the team can pick up
• Define success up front and prove it at portfolio level. You instrument outcomes before you build, and you can stand in front of the domain's leadership and account for the cumulative value your lane has delivered
• Design for earned autonomy. You build agents with the traces, evals, and human-in-the-loop gates that let them graduate to more autonomy on evidence, not on elapsed time, and you help set that standard for others
• Operate as a power user of frontier AI. Use Claude, OpenAI, and our orchestration platform daily as your primary tools, and bring a strong, current point of view on models, harnesses, and tooling that informs the team's platform choices
• Win trust at the leadership level. Your stakeholders are function leaders, not just operators. You navigate competing priorities, secure sponsorship, and keep skeptical partners engaged through delivery
• Multiply the builders around you. You review designs and code, unblock senior and mid-level engineers, raise the hiring bar as an interviewer, and make the people around you measurably better
• Build production grade applications around AI systems. You can design and implement the application layer around agents and AI workflows, with strong judgement across frontend APIs, state latency, reliability, security and scalability

Skills

• You can design and implement the application layer around agents and AI workflows, with strong judgement across frontend APIs, state latency, reliability, security and scalability
• Senior​ity hasn't pulled you away from the keyboard. You're happiest hands-on, and you have a strong bias toward shipping over deliberating
• You've owned a domain, program, or product area where you chose the roadmap, not just executed it, and you can speak to the judgment calls: what you built, what you deliberately didn't, and how it played out
• You've deployed agentic or AI-powered solutions to real users more than once, in more than one context, and you can speak concretely about value delivered, tools used, trade-offs made, and what you'd do differently now
• You use Claude, OpenAI, or similar models daily and fluently, you push them harder than most of the people around you, and you have informed opinions about frameworks, evals, and orchestration that you can defend with evidence
• You're comfortable embedded inside non-technical teams, and you can translate a leader's strategic frustration, not just an operator's task-level one, into a scoped, sequenced portfolio
• You can architect and build agent systems independently, make sound build-versus-reuse calls, and hold your own in design review with principal-level engineers
• You have a track record of making other engineers better through review, mentorship, patterns, or tooling, and people you've worked with would say so unprompted
• You're equally comfortable with operators on the floor, engineers in review, and executives in a readout, and you can carry a room that started out skeptical
• You actively track the latest models, tools, and techniques as they ship, form your own view on what matters, and bring the best of it back to the team
• You have hands-on experience building and shipping production applications, preferably full-stack, and can make sound architectural decisions across frontend and backend systems

Benefits

• Remote or hybrid candidates will also be considered.
• All full-time employees are eligible to enroll in Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Full-time employees are eligible for fertility, commuter, and educational assistance benefits
• A competitive 401k matching plan
• All salaried employees are eligible for flexible time-off.
• All regular, full-time employees are eligible for ten company paid holidays
• Employees receive discounts on select grading services for approved submissions
• Many of our teams offer flexible schedules with varying shifts and will work with you to accommodate your needs
• Team members are invited to participate in celebrations, holiday events, and team building activities
• This role may be eligible for bonuses, commissions, or other forms of compensation

Company Overview

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