Top AI Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

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.

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.

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.

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.

Work across AI, backend, and frontend: curate and clean writing datasets, fine-tune large language models, run training experiments, develop metrics and eval sets, build backend services in Python/Django, and implement frontend features with React.

Build foundational systems for AI models across data modalities, develop agentic systems and specialized models, and implement reinforcement learning and active inference solutions. The role involves hands-on architecture and product development, requiring Python backend expertise, cloud deployment knowledge, DevOps practices, and the ability to contribute across the technical stack in an early-stage startup.

Own quality control, regulatory alignment, and performance reporting for AI-powered clinical extractors. Analyze accuracy, consistency, data quality, provenance, and performance drift; guide extraction logic and clinical interpretation; support FHIR and CSV data exports; and contribute to governance, de-identification, validation, and client reporting. Collaborate with Data Science, Engineering, and Clinical Informatics while serving as a clinical subject-matter expert, particularly in oncology and real-world evidence.

Lead end-to-end client AI transformation engagements: discover and frame executive problems, design and build production-credible PoAs (data pipelines, integrations, LLM/RAG apps) within 2–3 weeks, present to executives, hand off to delivery, mentor junior FDEs, and convert PoAs into full engagements.

The Staff AI Engineer will analyze AI quality, implement improvements, manage projects, collaborate with teams, and shape AI capabilities in a remote-first environment.

Build, maintain, and improve production AI services for document understanding including LLM pipelines, background jobs, databases, and internal tools. Implement features, debug production issues, write tests, and contribute to evaluation frameworks to improve model quality and system reliability. Collaborate with a small engineering team and take increasing ownership over platform components.

Lead architecture and implementation of autonomous inbound/outbound AI agents, build scalable LLM ops and signal-intelligence data pipelines, integrate identity resolution and third-party CRM systems, and maintain production-ready, well-documented systems for Series B diligence.

Create reinforcement learning environments to evaluate AI systems solving complex software engineering tasks with MCP tools. Responsibilities include designing reproducible environments, deterministic verification, golden reference solutions, bug fixes, feature implementation, codebase refactoring, and performance optimization across software codebases.

Build and own conversational voice AI products end-to-end: architect, implement, and deploy the platform. Design infrastructure, develop front-end and back-end systems, deliver reliable customer outcomes, and collaborate directly with the CTO to scale the product for enterprise customers.