Blue Orange Digital is scaling its AI practice and needs Senior AI Engineers to deliver production agentic and AI systems to client engagements. The work is a mix of deep, single-client transformations and portfolio-wide programs. Examples of what you could be shipping in any given quarter include:
End-to-end AI transformations for mid-market SaaS companies replacing manual, human-in-the-loop workflows with fully orchestrated agentic operations (document processing, review cycles, customer-facing copilots)
AI readiness assessments and phased implementation roadmaps across private equity and growth-equity portfolios, where a single engagement may span five to fifteen portfolio companies at varying maturity levels
Production RAG and retrieval systems for knowledge-heavy domains such as financial services, legal, compliance, and regulated public-sector workflows
Agentic tooling and MCP-based integration layers that connect LLMs to client systems of record, internal APIs, and third-party SaaS
Evals, observability, and guardrail frameworks that take client-built prototypes from notebook demos to load-tested, monitored production services
Internal AI enablement engagements — helping client engineering orgs stand up their first production agent platform, define patterns, and upskill their teams
You will work as a senior IC inside a delivery pod — the core unit of how BOD delivers AI work. A typical pod is three to five people:
AI Architect — owns the platform and data foundations
AI Transformation Consultant — drives strategy, roadmap, change management, and executive alignment
Senior AI Engineer(s) (this role) — owns the agentic and ML implementation workstream
Additional roles as needed to scale the build
Pods operate as a cohesive unit that tackles cutting-edge AI strategy and implementation end-to-end — from discovery and architecture through shipped, measured production systems — across a rotating portfolio of interesting clients. You will own the AI engineering workstream on your pod, partner daily with the Architect and Consultant as peers, and report into the Practice Lead.
Qualifications
5+ years building production data and ML systems in Python; 2+ years specifically on LLM-based or agentic systems
Hands-on experience with at least one major LLM orchestration framework (LangChain, LangGraph, Langflow, Databricks Agent Framework, or equivalent)
Production experience with Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables, MLflow) or comparable lakehouse platforms such as Snowflake with dbt
Deep knowledge of RAG architectures, vector databases, and embedding pipelines
Proven track record taking AI systems from prototype to production, including evals, monitoring, and on-call ownership
Comfortable working directly with client engineering teams as a peer and a coach
Preferred Qualifications
Databricks, AWS, or Azure certifications
Experience with MCP, tool-calling protocols, or agentic protocol design
Background in security-aware AI engineering (prompt injection, data leakage, access control)
Multimodal AI experience across text, document, and image
FinOps experience optimizing model and compute spend
Benefits
Competitive compensation with performance bonuses
Work on diverse, challenging projects across industries
Direct access to cutting-edge tech stacks (Databricks, AWS, GCP, Azure)
Builder culture where engineers lead and ship
Professional development budget and certification support
Flexible remote work environment
Collaborative team that values production-grade craftsmanship