Top AI Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

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.

Develop and deploy production-grade AI and machine learning capabilities for national security and OPIR missions. Responsibilities include signal-processing automation, data processing, model development, evaluation, MLOps workflows, GPU optimization, streaming-data integration, and scalable deployment in operational environments. The role involves collaboration with engineers, mission subject-matter experts, and product teams, with emphasis on AI agents, NLP, LLMs, computer vision, microservices, and classified cloud environments.

Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI/ML solutions for national security missions, including NLP, LLMs, generative AI, deep learning, and computer vision. Build scalable data pipelines, APIs, microservices, MLOps workflows, and cloud or edge-deployed systems. Optimize and evaluate models, integrate them into secure operational environments, and collaborate with engineering and mission teams. Document technical designs and support accreditation processes in classified settings.

Conduct research on frontier AI systems, including synthetic and agentic data generation, reinforcement learning, post-training, model understanding, benchmarking, and evaluation. Design rigorous experiments, datasets, prototypes, tooling, and research workflows; train and assess models; analyze results; and translate findings into scalable AI products. Collaborate across research, engineering, product, and operations teams, communicate technical conclusions, contribute to publications or open-source work, and mentor engineers and researchers.

Lead design and implementation of microservices-based, safety-critical software in an Agile/SAFe environment. Collaborate with systems engineering, DevSecOps, QA, and product teams to deliver cloud-native, AI-enabled systems, integrate with databases and messaging (Kafka), and apply CI/CD, automated testing, and AI-assisted development tools. Support troubleshooting, performance tuning, and maintainability while meeting government security and background requirements.

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.

Lead technical vision and architecture for AI frameworks, performance, benchmarking, and tooling. Drive cross-team alignment, mentor engineers, ship high-performance distributed software, and improve model onboarding, runtime performance, reliability, and Azure hardware efficiency.