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The work runs from understanding the problem and preparing inputs through model or service selection, system design, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.\nThis is systems engineering around AI behavior. AI Engineers connect data pipelines, models, APIs, user experiences, business rules, and human-review paths, then test the complete system under conditions that reflect how people will use it. They make limitations visible and match security, traceability, and oversight to the consequences of the work.\nWhat you'll build\nDocument and content pipelines that apply OCR, parse layouts, extract and validate information, preserve provenance, and make authoritative content usable downstream.\nPredictive, classification, recommendation, natural language, computer vision, or decision-support services that combine custom models, pretrained models, externally provided AI services, and deterministic software.\nSearch and knowledge applications that use retrieval, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), controlled source access, and traceable references.\nWorkflow and agent-based systems with scoped tools, permission boundaries, approval paths, exception handling, and audit trails where agentic patterns fit the problem.\nEvaluation and operations capabilities that version, test, release, trace, monitor, diagnose, and roll back models, prompts, configurations, retrieval indexes, and supporting software.\nWho you are\nYou see the model as one part of a larger system. You can move between user needs, data, software, model behavior, and production operations without losing sight of the outcome, and you choose the simplest approach that meets the need.\nYou test assumptions against evidence, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and work comfortably with domain experts, users, data engineers, data scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, security specialists, governance teams, and operations teams. 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