Senior AI Engineer at Abacusinsights · LumiJobs

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AI is the engine behind where Abacus is headed next — and this role sits at the controls. We're looking for someone who has been a tech lead before — someone who knows what it feels like to be the senior-most person in the room on a project, and who's comfortable both setting the technical direction and doing the hands-on design work personally when it counts. This role isn't purely about overseeing; you'll be initiating projects, personally designing systems and architecture, and then coordinating with other teams — data quality engineers, platform engineers, DevOps, product owners, and the business — to bring that design to life.
Mentorship is a real part of the job, but it's not a replacement for staying technical. You'll grow other engineers through code review, guidance, and coaching, while remaining deeply hands-on yourself — someone others come to because you can actually do the work, not just talk about it. You'll also serve as the liaison between technical capability and business need, helping product and business stakeholders understand what's feasible while making sure technical decisions stay grounded in real business priorities.
Serve as the senior-most technical voice on projects you're part of, and act as the liaison between technical capability and business need — partnering with product managers and stakeholders to translate roadmap and customer priorities into technical direction, and translating technical realities back into terms the business side can plan around.
Help shape the direction of our applied AI areas and intelligence features, driving deployment of state-of-the-art AI models and systems that directly impact Abacus's products and services (Abacus Agents, MCP, SQL and RAG agents and tools, and more).
Develop novel data collection, fine-tuning, and LLM techniques, and design ML/AI pipelines for data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, hyperparameter tuning, and evaluation — enabling rapid experimentation, iteration, and self-healing systems.
Build scalable, reusable backend systems to support GenAI products company-wide, with robust logging, telemetry, and evaluation harnesses to ensure reliable performance.
Shape and guide the work of other engineers on a project — setting technical direction and reviewing approach — and mentor and coach developers as an extension of that work, not a substitute for staying technically hands-on, helping others grow while keeping delivered solutions aligned with our architecture, coding standards, and policies.
Participate in architectural discussions and influence key technical decisions, while identifying people and process improvements for Agile/Scrum teams where innovation and rapid iteration are critical to AI work.
Balance delivery against roadmap commitments while navigating interruptions and client escalations, with a solid grasp of incident management, configuration management, and operational efficiency — communicating architecture and implementation objectives upward and keeping teams aligned with established policies.
Represent Abacus credibly in customer-facing technical conversations, especially where business stakeholders need a trustworthy read on what's technically feasible.
What you bring to the team
3+ years of ML/AI engineering experience in high-velocity, high-growth companies (or equivalent ML/AI research background in academia), within 8+ years of overall software development experience.

Senior AI Engineer

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Abacusinsights

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