AI Systems Engineer
Anduril· Mission Readiness : Technical Publications : Technical Publications
Santa Ana, CA$191k - $254kfull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Role focuses on designing, building, and operating production AI systems to improve technical documentation creation, transformation, validation, maintenance, and delivery. Involves AI-assisted authoring, automated publishing, and multi-agent coordination tooling within the Technical Publications pipeline.
Responsibilities
- Build production-grade LLM applications for documentation and knowledge-work workflows.
- Design orchestration for multi-step workflows that coordinate models, tools, and deterministic services safely.
- Optimize context management, token usage, caching, and workflow design for cost, latency, and task success.
- Build retrieval, structured-output, and tool-integrated systems that safely interact with enterprise content, source control, issue tracking, and documentation systems.
- Design evaluation frameworks and regression testing for prompts, models, tools, retrieval pipelines, and end-to-end workflows.
- Establish observability, auditability, rollback, and safe failure modes for AI-assisted workflows.
- Work directly with technical writers, illustrators, engineers, and documentation leadership to identify high-value AI applications and determine where human judgment remains primary.
- Preserve provenance between source material, generated output, validation results, and human decisions so outputs remain reviewable and attributable.
Qualifications
- On-site in Santa Ana, CA.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including building and operating production services.
- Direct experience delivering at least one production AI system with measurable adoption.
- Experience optimizing cost, latency, and context usage in production LLM or workflow systems.
- Experience designing evaluation, observability, rollback, and failure-handling for nondeterministic systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python and modern API, data, and service-development practices including security boundaries and data protection.
- Sound judgment about where probabilistic AI is appropriate and where deterministic software or human review is required.
- Eligible for Secret and higher security clearance (US).
- Subject to pre-employment and randomized substance screening.
Skills
Required:Software engineeringPythonProduction AI systemsCost, latency, and context optimizationEvaluation and observability designSecurity and data protectionDecision making for probabilistic AI
Benefits
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.
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