Applied AI Engineering Lead
Peregrine Technologies· Applied AI / ML
San Francisco, CA$225k - $320kfull-timePosted 8mo ago
About the role
Lead the application, evaluation, and operationalization of AI across Peregrine’s platform, delivering AI-powered features in production within high-consequence environments, while ensuring reliability, transparency, and performance.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and deployment of customer facing AI features across Peregrine’s platform
- Translate real operational problems into deployable AI-powered solutions
- Partner deeply with Product, Deployment Strategists, and other Engineering teams to integrate AI into core workflows
- Own and guide fine tuning strategies and reinforcement learning to improve decision quality
- Make principled tradeoffs between classical ML, deep learning, and LLM-based approaches based on accuracy, latency, and risk
- Shape Peregrine’s AI infrastructure, including: Training and inference pipelines; Model serving, versioning, and rollback; Integration with real-time and batch data systems
- Ensure models are observable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective in production
- Meet enterprise and government requirements
- Define and operate robust evaluation frameworks
- Establish quality standards that reflect real-world decision impact, not just model accuracy
- Own monitoring, drift detection, and failure analysis for deployed models
- Build and lead a high-performing Applied AI/ML team
- Set technical direction for applied AI across Peregrine
- Partner with executive leadership on AI strategy, roadmap, and responsible deployment
Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience shipping AI-powered features into production, ideally in enterprise or mission critical environments
- Hands-on experience with model fine tuning (LLMs or deep learning models)
- Practical exposure to reinforcement learning
- Experience in designing and operating AI/ML infrastructure
- Direct ownership of model evaluation, experimentation, and quality measurement
- Strong software engineering fundamentals as a lead
Skills
Required:AI feature developmentModel fine tuningReinforcement learningAI/ML infrastructure designModel evaluation & experimentationSoftware engineering fundamentals
Benefits
- Annual Salary + Benefits + Equity (if applicable) + Bonus (if applicable)
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Peregrine Technologies
Effective, efficient and easy to use, Peregrine is the real-time public safety and police data management platform that delivers true interoperability.
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