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 and operate production-grade AI developer tooling, agentic workflows, and shared infrastructure that improve software development across engineering teams. Responsibilities include AI-assisted code review, testing, issue triage, model integrations, evaluations, monitoring, cost controls, adoption enablement, and cross-functional collaboration with security, platform, quality, product, and design teams.

Build and deploy AI-native products that transform large-scale geospatial data into actionable intelligence. Design multi-agent workflows, integrate frontier LLMs, engineer tool-using agents, and develop data pipelines for anomaly detection and predictive analytics. Ensure secure, scalable cloud integrations and operate production AI systems using DevOps, containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD. Establish feedback and reinforcement mechanisms to improve model reliability while contributing to AI-first engineering standards and documentation.

Build and implement AI-powered developer productivity tools, including code review automations, AI personas, reusable prompts, and workflow playbooks. Partner with engineering teams to identify coding workflow improvements, prototype tools in Python, integrate GitHub and CI/CD systems, measure adoption and quality impact, and support enablement through demonstrations, office hours, and training.

Develop and maintain AI-driven autonomous planning, scheduling, and optimization systems for Earth observation satellite operations. Build reinforcement learning algorithms, simulation and evaluation environments, and multi-objective optimization pipelines for satellite constellation tasking. Collaborate with aerospace engineers, mission operators, software engineers, and product teams to translate mission requirements into deployable systems. The role requires strong Java and Spring Boot experience, software engineering fundamentals, and machine learning or optimization expertise.

Build and scale AI infrastructure through Python automation, AWS serverless architectures, EKS containerized workloads, Terraform infrastructure as code, and monitoring. Develop orchestration pipelines for model training and inference, manage large datasets and production availability, reduce recovery times, collaborate with QA and Product, and mentor engineers while maintaining code quality and operational performance.

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.

Own production operations for workplace AI platforms, including configuration, integrations, observability, secrets, access controls, model and prompt changes, benchmarking, and incident response. Translate technical findings into governance, risk, compliance, and training materials while collaborating with Security, Legal, HR, and business stakeholders. Investigate failures, implement mitigations, document root causes, and maintain reliable, secure AI services.

Develop and operate production ML and AI systems powering patient experiences such as matching, ranking, recommendations, onboarding, and personalization. Build reusable ML infrastructure, pipelines, evaluation, observability, and model-serving capabilities. Provide technical leadership across the ML lifecycle, guide architecture, evaluate custom versus foundation-model approaches, and partner with ML and Patient Engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable AI products.

Develop and implement AI solutions and machine learning systems that enhance products and solve complex client problems. Responsibilities include advanced analytics, LLM production deployment, prompt engineering, RAG pipeline optimization, cross-functional collaboration, technical discovery, responsible AI advocacy, client relationship building, and mentoring junior team members.

Design and implement AI agents, plugins, automations, and enterprise integrations for HR Technology platforms. Lead requirements gathering, technical analysis, solution design, testing, documentation, deployment, security, and data integrity efforts across HR, IT, and business stakeholders. Integrate platforms including ServiceNow, Workday, and other enterprise applications while supporting the HR automation and AI roadmap.

Build and manage AI-powered workflows, agents, automations, and internal applications for Deal Desk and GTM teams. Identify automation opportunities, develop prototypes, scale solutions to production, integrate enterprise data and APIs, implement human validation and audit controls, optimize LLM costs, document tools, measure adoption, and train users. The role requires Deal Desk or RevOps experience plus practical knowledge of AI models, APIs, scripting, SQL/SOQL, Python, CPQ, CLM, Salesforce, and agentic platforms.

Develops research methods for context discovery, retrieval, multimodal representation, reasoning, tool calling, metadata management, and trustworthy AI data pipelines. Builds and evaluates foundation models across language, vision, time series, and scientific applications. The role combines applied research with hands-on engineering, including MLOps, agentic AI, knowledge-infused learning, pipeline optimization, and collaboration with software teams and external partners.

Build and integrate secure AI assistants and chatbots into geospatial intelligence and mission-support applications. Develop LLM workflows using RAG, prompt orchestration, tool calling, and conversational context; connect AI services to enterprise data sources and APIs; and enforce access controls, provenance, auditing, and safety measures. Deploy and operate services in Kubernetes and OpenShift, including classified or disconnected environments, while evaluating AI quality, security, latency, and usability.

Design, develop, deploy, and support AI solutions including generative AI applications, agents, workflow automation, document intelligence, and retrieval-augmented generation. Partner with business and IT teams to identify use cases, integrate enterprise platforms and data sources, establish prompt and evaluation standards, support AI governance and security, monitor solution performance, and train employees on responsible AI adoption.

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.

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 AI-powered workflows, agents, integrations, and internal tools that automate People Operations. Partner with People, Engineering, and IT to modernize onboarding and other employee processes, while implementing secure access controls, human oversight, escalation paths, and production-ready architectures. Prototype with users, iterate quickly, and measure improvements in efficiency, employee experience, and operational consistency.

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.

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.

Leads architecture and hands-on development for AI frameworks, performance systems, benchmarking, and developer tools. Investigates issues across models, compilers, runtimes, services, and accelerator hardware; improves model onboarding, runtime performance, reliability, hardware utilization, and Azure efficiency. Establishes scalable measurement and observability capabilities, influences cross-team technical strategy, delivers production solutions, and mentors engineers while advancing engineering quality and maintainability.

Build and deploy production-ready generative AI applications across rotating federal engagements. Responsibilities include developing RAG pipelines, conversational AI, and multi-agent systems; integrating LLMs and cloud services; implementing observability, security, cost controls, and responsible AI guardrails; troubleshooting integrations; training client teams; documenting solutions; and contributing reusable patterns to an AI solution catalog.