[Remote] AI Engineer
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, focusing on deploying engineers into real businesses. The AI Engineer role involves deploying AI solutions in various sectors, decomposing ambiguous problems, and building production AI systems that drive profitability.
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 - you're done building demos and want work that matters
- 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
- Bonus: multi-site operations, professional services, or PE-backed / operator-adjacent experience
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