Top AI Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Design, build, and operate agentic AI systems end-to-end for Professional Services. Translate stakeholder needs into secure, scalable multi-agent architectures, define performance benchmarks, manage deployments and incident response, advise leadership, mentor teammates, and maintain runbooks and production tooling including on-call responsibilities.

Build and maintain the Python-based backend engine for GitLab Duo Chat, including agentic LangGraph flows, the Flow Registry, and Duo Workflow Service. Integrate chat capabilities with GitLab’s Rails monolith and GraphQL API, develop secure and tested high-scale features, optimize performance, review code, address technical debt, and collaborate cross-functionally. Participate in weekday, weekend, and occasional nighttime Tier 2 or Tier 3 on-call rotations.

Own product-layer performance for agentic AI systems in healthcare. Design prompting, retrieval, context, memory, tool use, evaluation, escalation, and human-review workflows. Build production-grounded evaluations, diagnose failures, improve accuracy, reliability, latency, cost, and steerability, and approve model changes. Partner with Product and Engineering while maintaining model cards, intended-use guidance, limitations, and failure-mode documentation for safe, transparent deployment.

Build and own internal AI agents, automations, workflows, and full-stack applications for the GTM organization. Lead solutions from prototyping through production scaling, beta testing, maintenance, documentation, and user training. Integrate secure data sources, evaluate internal tools against vendors, manage LLM costs and performance, apply UX best practices, and determine when agentic workflows are appropriate. Stay current with LLMs and agent orchestration technologies.

Design and implement AI systems and scalable ML models (Python, TensorFlow); build/maintain data pipelines and integrations; apply NLP (NLTK) and deep learning for analytics; deploy and optimize models (including open-weight LLMs); collaborate with stakeholders and continuously learn to improve AI solutions and deployment reliability.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain resilient, scalable backend services and platform components for Toast's Voice AI platform. Lead cross-cutting architecture and projects, integrate AI platforms (LLMs), implement observability and evaluation for AI systems, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers.

Owns the Retail AI GTM Pod and leads the deployment, integration, scaling, and maintenance of AI applications that improve sales and onboarding productivity. Responsibilities include evaluating build-versus-buy solutions, managing technical sprints, developing RAG and agentic workflows, integrating Salesforce, Snowflake, and Taskray, enforcing application security and data integrity, monitoring adoption, and enabling nontechnical teams to use AI effectively.

Build AI applications, agents, integrations, and automated workflows that transform technical information into customer documentation. Partner with the Documentation team to use LLMs, agentic AI, and automation to improve content creation, maintenance, publishing, and delivery. Reduce manual effort, increase access to technical knowledge, and identify additional customer-facing workflows where AI can improve efficiency and experience.

Build and deploy AI-powered solutions across Sales, Marketing, and Customer Support. Diagnose workflows, identify constraints, evaluate whether AI is appropriate, and own initiatives from discovery through deployment. Develop LLM applications using prompt engineering, RAG, agentic architectures, orchestration, guardrails, and enterprise integrations. Measure business value through flow metrics, adoption, ROI, and feedback loops while partnering with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

The Principal AI/ML Engineer will develop machine learning models for campaign optimization in AdTech, collaborating across engineering and product teams to enhance advertising capabilities.

Hands-on technical leader who designs, builds, and deploys production-grade AI automation and agentic workflows. Responsibilities include rapid prototyping, RAG and document-intelligence systems, API integrations, orchestration, monitoring, reusable AI assets, and mentoring a small engineering team to deliver frequent releases and measurable business impact.

Own the technical direction, architecture, and delivery of Benchling’s enterprise agentic AI portfolio. Build production systems integrating foundation models, orchestration, tools, memory, evaluation, observability, security, and workflow automation. Establish CI/CD, testing, deployment, and governance practices; graduate prototypes into reliable systems; and provide production support. Enable internal teams through SDKs, templates, coaching, and standards while partnering with product, data, infrastructure, and security teams. Lead technical hiring and mentor engineers as a hands-on founding engineer.

The Principal AI/ML Engineer will develop AI/ML solutions for hardware and firmware validation, enhance test efficiency, and collaborate across teams to implement data-driven analytics and automation.

Build and ship production-grade agentic AI workflows across Acquia’s digital experience platform. Architect stateful multi-agent systems using LangGraph, Temporal, and Pydantic; own LangFuse observability, evaluation, and prompt management; establish standards for RAG and tool calling; partner on secure, reliable enterprise architectures; evaluate AI tooling; mentor engineers; and support customer architecture and roadmap discussions.

Design, build, and operate large-scale LLM infrastructure and data platforms for training, fine-tuning, and inference. Provision GPU clusters, optimize GPU utilization, implement model lifecycle management, deploy inference frameworks, create evaluation and observability systems, and collaborate with data scientists to productionize AI capabilities. Mentor engineers and enforce MLOps/DataOps best practices.

Build and scale AI platform infrastructure for internal agents across AWS/GCP. Integrate identity (Okta, OAuth2/OIDC), implement agentic security, containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD and Terraform-based pipelines, run vendor evaluations, and design observability/telemetry for LLM-driven workflows while collaborating with security, identity, and engineering teams.

Design, build, deploy, and iterate production-ready AI agents and LLM-based solutions that integrate with enterprise workflows. Rapidly prototype, evaluate, and optimize agents for performance, cost, and adoption. Partner across functions to redesign workflows, contribute to an AI Center of Excellence, and ensure responsible, secure, and scalable agent development.

Take Deepgram's speech models and optimize, compile, and run them on resource-constrained embedded and edge hardware. Work across model compression, runtime performance (C/C++/Rust), RTOS/bare-metal and embedded Linux environments, vendor NPUs/DSPs and inference runtimes, benchmarking, deployment pipelines, OTA updates, and partner with silicon vendors to enable real-time, low-power on-device voice experiences.

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.

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.

Early-career AI Engineer building customer-facing generative AI and agentic solutions. Rapidly prototype and convert prototypes to production MVPs, implement LLM-based reasoning, RAG pipelines, and multi-agent orchestration. Run experiments and benchmarks, contribute to MLOps standards, model lifecycle, monitoring, security, and governance while collaborating with cross-functional teams and cloud-native AI stacks.

Lead design and delivery of advanced data and ML solutions, performing exploratory analysis, statistical modeling, and visualization to inform strategy. Manage and coach teams, collaborate with clients to validate outcomes, and improve analytics processes and data quality to drive business decisions.

Design and deliver scalable Databricks/Spark/Delta Lake data pipelines, implement GitLab CI/CD and IaC/container workflows, apply SOLID engineering and testing frameworks, mentor peers, integrate AI-driven monitoring, and collaborate with Data Science and Product to productionize ML solutions on AWS while ensuring security and reliability.

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.

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.