Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SimpliGov is developing SimpliAI, an AI product suite for state and local government customers. The Senior AI/ML Engineer will design, build, and ship production AI systems involving agentic workflows, retrieval, evaluation, model routing, and safety guardrails, while owning their quality, cost, latency, and compliance. The role also contributes reusable engineering patterns and raises the AI capabilities of the broader team.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship production AI features across the SimpliAI suite: agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, structured extraction, and form and workflow intelligence
- Build evaluation before features: golden datasets, calibrated LLM-as-judge scoring, and regression evals wired into our observability stack; "it demos well" is not a bar we recognize
- Own the quality, safety, latency, and cost of what you ship, including per-workload model routing and unit economics
- Operate inside our compliance boundary: self-hosted observability, GovCloud inference paths (including Amazon Bedrock), and disciplined data retention
- Work in the open through our Plan-and-Review cadence: written designs, explicit assumptions, uncertainty surfaced early
- Raise the AI floor of the whole team: reusable patterns, reviews, and shared components, not private magic
Skills
- 5+ years of software engineering with production ownership, including 2+ years shipping LLM or ML-backed features to real users
- Demonstrated evaluation discipline: you can show how you measured a system, not just that you built it
- Hands-on depth with modern LLM stacks: agentic patterns, RAG, tool use and function calling, structured outputs, prompt and context engineering
- Solid backend engineering fundamentals: APIs, data pipelines, observability; you are an engineer first
- Judgment under ambiguity: given an underspecified problem, you decompose it, state your assumptions, and choose defensible trade-offs
- Explainability: pick any system you shipped and you can go three levels deep; "the model handles it" is not an answer
- Ownership through production pain: you stayed with systems after launch, and you can talk honestly about what broke
- Cost and safety literacy: you treat unit economics and failure modes as design inputs, not afterthoughts
- SimpliGov does not sponsor applicants for work visas
- Experience in government, healthcare, or other regulated environments is a plus
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans, with significant employer contributions for employees AND dependents (contributions based on base-level plan; buyup plans available at additional costs)
- Company-sponsored life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance
- 11 Paid holidays
- Flexible time off
- 401k plan with 4% employer match
- Monthly stipends for wellness and home office expenses
- Bonus
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