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Founded in 2005 by a banker as the industry’s first SaaS offering, CINC Systems now employs nearly 400 people and provides software and applications to more than 50,000 associations servicing over 5 million doors.\nIn January of 2024, Hg Capital made a significant investment in CINC to accelerate the company’s growth trajectory and institute rapid product development.\nAt CINC, innovation drives our growth, and our people sustain it. We are proud of our humble, accountable, and team-oriented culture, and we are committed to building products and a workplace that create long term value for our customers and our team.\nAbout the Role\nThe Senior Applied AI Engineer is a hands-on software engineer specializing in the practical application of AI within production systems. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, system design, and applied machine learning, with a focus on building AI-enabled features that are observable, testable, and safe.\nThis is not a research role. 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