Top AI Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Design, build, and ship production LLM-powered features for Gusto Retirement. Implement and integrate LLMs (RAG, agents, prompting, tool loops), make pragmatic architecture decisions, collaborate with product, design, and engineering, write reliable well-tested code, and drive end-to-end execution and iteration.

Build the core AI platform and high-performance Rust backend powering an AI-native trading copilot. Implement streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, orchestration of models and tools, secure APIs, auditing/tracing, and safe, auditable trading action infrastructure. Partner with product and frontend to enable AI-native UX and translate trading domain requirements into resilient platform primitives.

Lead ownership of reliability, evaluation, and safety for an AI copilot in a trading platform. Build eval systems, benchmarks, automated quality gates, monitoring, and model improvement loops; partner with engineering and product to define safe tool contracts and ensure predictable, auditable assistant behavior in trading workflows.

As a Principal Data Engineer, you will design and implement LLM, AI-powered security data platforms, mentor engineers, and drive the adoption of data solutions across teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Databricks/Spark data pipelines and automated CI/CD workflows. Apply software engineering best practices, enable production ML/AI deployments, monitor pipeline health, and mentor peers to ensure reliable, cost-efficient data infrastructure on AWS.

Design and scale a reusable Customer Success AI platform: build foundational AI infrastructure (orchestration, memory, context, workflow engines), optimize model routing, observability, governance, and security, lead architecture and standards, mentor engineers, and partner cross-functionally to deliver enterprise-grade, multi-product AI capabilities.

Lead design and build of an AI-native marketing platform: integrations, multi-agent orchestration, UIs, tooling, analytics, CI/CD, auth/multi-tenancy, and production AI agents to automate marketing workflows and drive adoption across teams.

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will design AI products on Edge devices, optimize ML model performance, and work with large-scale datasets, collaborating across teams to deliver impactful solutions.

Senior SRE on the IT Operations team owning reliability, monitoring, and incident response for AI infrastructure. Build automation, CI/CD and Kubernetes tooling, improve observability and documentation, and develop internal full-stack tools using Go or Python. Partner with Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance to scale secure, resilient AI deployment pipelines.

Design, build, and own scalable data pipelines and evaluation systems that power production AI features and internal analytics. Ensure data quality across ingestion, modeling, and reporting, collaborate with ML and analytics teams, deploy and monitor ML systems, and establish standards for data work and evaluation.

Design and build scalable, automated evaluation pipelines and infrastructure to validate speech, audio, and multimodal models. Translate research benchmarks into enforceable pass/fail gates, run batch and streaming tests, operate canaries and continuous monitoring, integrate quality gates into CI/CD, and partner with research, training, inference, and infra teams to prevent regressions and ensure production model quality.

Build, deploy, and maintain AI-powered agents, APIs, and applications for People operations on Snowflake. Turn messy business requirements into production systems, integrate with Workday/Notion/case tools, ensure data governance and security, design multi-model LLM reliability controls, and operate full lifecycle including CI/CD, monitoring, and incident fixes while partnering with non-technical stakeholders.

Lead and coach teams to design, develop, and deliver production-grade AI and data solutions for clients. Manage client accounts, ensure quality and timelines, analyze complex datasets, implement best practices, and drive continuous improvement while fostering client relationships and technical excellence.

Build and deploy production micro-apps and LLM-powered agents on a governed GCP platform. Integrate AI with systems (Salesforce, Slack, NetSuite, SQL), harden apps with auth, secrets, CI/CD, logging and monitoring, automate maintenance, and implement evaluation and observability for model quality and drift.

Contribute to building and hardening micro-apps and AI integrations on a shared GCP platform. Complete bug fixes and small features, participate in code and design reviews, apply security and software development best practices, monitor applications and follow runbooks, and use AI tools to assist development, testing, and documentation while learning from senior engineers.

Design and deliver LLM-powered, agentic AI systems to automate customer support and compliance. Build scalable, secure backend infrastructure in Python and Go, integrate third-party models/APIs, implement grounding and guardrails, and measure performance. Lead end-to-end projects, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and participate in on-call and incident response to improve resolution times and reduce operational costs.

Integrate and fine-tune existing AI models into production features, build evaluation frameworks and observability for AI performance, collaborate with data science and engineering, develop AI-powered features in Python, and troubleshoot and monitor models in real-world scenarios.

Design, build, and deploy production-grade ML systems for ICS/xOT cybersecurity, including threat detection, anomaly detection, NLP/LLM applications, and scalable data pipelines with observability and MLOps practices for cloud and on-prem environments.

Build and operate Coinbase's LLM and agent platform: design the LLM gateway, agent runtime, knowledge bases, AI spend governance, observability/eval tooling, and ship production agents while partnering cross-functionally to ensure secure, cost-effective, and responsible generative AI at scale.

Design, prototype, and deploy LLM-powered agents, RAG workflows, and automations that accelerate internal teams and customer-facing product features. Integrate AI systems with SaaS tools, build reusable components and evaluation frameworks, embed with business teams to deliver measurable outcomes, and establish standards for responsible AI, monitoring, and cost control across the company.

As a Sr. Applied AI Engineer at Zapier, you will build and enhance AI platform capabilities, focusing on LLM Ops and ML Ops to support scalable AI development across teams.

As a Senior AI/Data Engineer, you will design and maintain scalable data and AI infrastructures, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable data systems and support AI-driven business capabilities.

This role involves defining AI architecture, improving system quality, leading teams, and building production-ready AI systems at Drata.

Build and maintain enterprise AI governance components (LLM gateway, Agent Firewall) across full stack (Go backend, React frontend). Ship features, harden security, integrate LLM provider APIs, collaborate with product, partners, and enterprise customers, and contribute to open-source tooling.

Design, prototype, and ship LLM- and agent-powered AI features for observability. Rapidly iterate with real users, integrate AI workflows with tooling and alerting, collaborate cross-functionally, and ensure scalable, production-ready solutions in cloud-native environments.