Top AI Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Designs and deploys scalable AI and machine learning systems using Python and TensorFlow. Responsibilities include data wrangling, complex analysis, NLP, deep learning, data pipeline management, data integration, and model optimization. The role also involves stakeholder collaboration, aligning AI initiatives with business goals, mentoring junior team members, and contributing to data infrastructure and engineering practices.

Architects and develops AI-powered systems, tools, agents, backend services, APIs, and experimentation frameworks using foundational AI models. Integrates AI capabilities with microservices, AWS, Snowflake, and complex data systems while ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability. Translates business problems into technical solutions, prototypes AI applications, collaborates with product and engineering teams, evaluates emerging AI technologies, and documents system designs and integration patterns.

Develop, train, and evaluate machine learning models for space-domain applications including object classification and anomaly detection. Build data ingestion, preprocessing, feature engineering, and model evaluation pipelines; conduct experiments; track results; and write clean, testable Python code. Collaborate with senior engineers while contributing to AI capabilities supporting space security and autonomous systems.

Design and deploy production AI assistants, copilots, agents, RAG systems, and workflow automation using enterprise data. Build AI backend services, APIs, microservices, and AWS serverless workflows; integrate enterprise platforms; implement observability, responsible AI, human-in-the-loop controls, and traceability. Partner with Data, IT, and business teams to improve operational processes and decision-making while managing production incidents, model rollbacks, performance, accuracy, and cost.

Own the MLOps foundation for a shared enterprise AI platform. Build production code, infrastructure automation, delivery pipelines, model and prompt lifecycle tooling, serving systems, observability, evaluation, and cost controls. Establish technical guardrails, governance, security, and operational standards while embedding with teams to move AI workloads into reliable production. Provide principal-level technical leadership, mentor engineers, influence architecture, and communicate trade-offs with technical and executive stakeholders.

Build and ship production AI systems across retrieval, knowledge graphs, inference, agentic workflows, and data platforms. Develop customer-context retrieval, scored signals, evaluation and observability capabilities, and workflows that turn insights into action. Work hands-on with large and small models, durable orchestration, cloud deployment, inference-cost optimization, and high-volume observability data. Establish reusable engineering patterns, collaborate with product and platform teams, and mentor through strong technical contributions.

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 productionize agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, AI services, backend systems, and ML pipelines for sales automation. Integrate Salesforce, quoting engines, data lakes, and internal platforms using scalable, event-driven architectures. Lead 0-to-1 development of tools for account research, lead prioritization, and quoting while ensuring reliability, observability, performance, and resilience across the GTM technology stack.

Design, build, and operate production AI automations and agentic workflows for Toast’s customer care systems. Integrate LLMs with Salesforce Service Cloud, Amazon Connect, and workflow platforms; develop autonomous actions with human oversight; test, monitor, and improve system reliability, accuracy, latency, and cost. Collaborate with software engineers, Salesforce developers, and care operations stakeholders to translate workflows into scalable intelligent solutions.

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 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.

Integrate and fine-tune existing AI models within production software, evaluate model performance, build evaluation frameworks, configure observability, develop Python AI features, and troubleshoot real-world performance. Collaborate with data science, engineering, the CTO, and cross-functional teams to improve products and identify AI innovation opportunities. This role focuses on applying existing models rather than designing new machine learning models.

Build production AI agents and agent-powered features from research and prototyping through deployment. Develop evaluation infrastructure with golden datasets, regression suites, and offline/online scoring. Own retrieval and context pipelines, production instrumentation, failure taxonomies, and cost and latency budgets. Partner with data science and product management on experiments and agent behavior, while establishing LLM engineering patterns, guardrails, and reusable tooling.

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 strategy, architecture, and implementation of production AI and machine learning systems for personalization, search ranking, relevance, and patient-provider matching. Builds recommendation engines, retrieval models, LLM applications, and scalable ML infrastructure while establishing AI safety, evaluation, and MLOps standards. The role requires hands-on model development, technical leadership, mentoring, and responsible deployment of AI in a regulated mental healthcare environment.

Architect and build production agentic AI systems for customer support and compliance automation. Lead technical direction for distributed systems, APIs, orchestration frameworks, guardrails, and evaluation systems. Create reusable automation primitives, improve grounding and reliability, reduce hallucinations, and mentor engineers on LLM application design and production readiness. Collaborate cross-functionally to scale AI automation across Coinbase.

Own Gusto’s agentic coding platform, including autonomous coding workflows, AI code review, orchestration, security posture, sandboxing, permissions, infrastructure contracts, and AI spending controls. Lead and grow a senior engineering team, recruit and calibrate talent, set the product and technical roadmap, manage ambiguity across multiple domains, and advise executive leadership on AI-native software development strategy.

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.

Design, build, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain production LLM-based agentic solutions for Commercial Customer Success. Integrate agents with CRMs and Samsara systems, define evaluation frameworks and success metrics, implement automated tests and monitoring, iterate on models and prompts, and demonstrate impact on customer outcomes and retention.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.