Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MeritFirst is a curated talent network for high-growth and investor-backed companies. They are seeking an AI Engineer to deploy into real businesses, build production AI, and collaborate with various stakeholders to create repeatable playbooks.
Responsibilities
- Deploy into real, profitable businesses - healthcare, professional services, multi-site operators, manufacturers - often in a sector you don't know yet
- Decompose an ambiguous problem: talk to the head of engineering and the person running the machine, pull the right threads, decide what to build
- Build production AI that moves the P&L - agents, automation, integrations - not pilots or slide decks
- Work shoulder-to-shoulder with CEOs, COOs, and operators
- Turn each engagement into a repeatable playbook the next deployment can reuse
Skills
- You've shipped real software with LLMs and AI APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or comparable)
- Strong in Python plus TypeScript, SQL, or scripting
- You thrive in ambiguity and minimal context
- Systems thinker who maps a workflow end to end and sees where AI creates leverage
- You communicate as well with a non-technical operator as with an engineer
- Multi-site operations
- Professional services
- PE-backed / operator-adjacent experience
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