# Senior Applied AI Engineer

About Alterion Alterion is building the control plane for the agentic enterprise - enabling organizations to safely deploy, monitor, and scale autonomous AI agents with full visibility and governance. Our platform unifies semantic observability, dynamic policy enforcement, and distributed monitoring to ensure agent ecosystems remain trustworthy, compliant, and efficient at scale. As part of this mission, we are building an Intelligence Platform that is responsible for understanding, scoring, and optimizing agent behavior across the enterprise. Including accuracy, security, cost, drift, anomalous behavior, and runtime dynamics. Role Overview We are looking for a Senior Applied AI Engineer to join our on-site Research & Intelligence team in San Francisco. This role is for an experienced engineer who enjoys working close to research problems but is primarily motivated by building, shipping, and improving production systems. You will work on applied GenAI problems including agent evaluation, observability, and safety; translating proven techniques into scalable, reliable components within Alterion’s platform. This is not a pure research role. Success is measured by what ships and what

- **Id**: 788448
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/alterion-senior-applied-ai-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-05T18:40:23Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-05-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T03:48:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 191
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2900
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Agents, AI Governance & Compliance

## Company

- **Id**: 670066
- **Name**: Alterion
- **Domain**: alterion.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/alterion>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 165000
- **Max usd**: 318000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1332

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **PEFT** — Optional: yes
- **Transformers** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 191

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T02:36:33Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 7
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.233
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 190
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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