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    Applied AI Engineer

    Full-time
    India
    Aug 20, 2026
    Remote
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    Overview

    Item.com is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to build production AI applications that solve concrete business problems. You will combine software engineering, LLM/ML application design, data integration, evaluation, and production operations. Contract position. Must work U.S. PST hours.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Ship AI applications that deliver measurable operational or customer value.
    • Establish repeatable approaches for evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and improvement.
    • Help move AI work from prototype to maintainable product capability.
    • Design and implement AI application services using Python and/or TypeScript.
    • Build retrieval, classification, extraction, summarization, and decision-support capabilities as appropriate.

    Pay and Benefits

    Compensation

    $1k - $2k

    Requirements

    • Strong software engineering experience with production services, APIs, testing, and cloud deployment.
    • Practical experience shipping LLM/ML-enabled applications, not only experimenting with models.
    • Experience with retrieval, embeddings, vector/data stores, prompt/version management, or model evaluation is valuable.
    • Ability to explain data quality, model/application tradeoffs, fallback behavior, and production incidents.
    • Clear ownership mindset and ability to work from ambiguous problems to operating software.

    Skills

    Own an applied AI service end to end: problem framing, implementation, release, quality measurement, monitoring, and ongoing improvement.

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