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For decades, quartz devices, non-silicon technology, have kept systems in sync, but they struggle in harsher, more demanding environments. MEMS-based Precision Timing delivers greater accuracy, smaller size and resilience. Today, MEMS timing powers over 400 applications, including high-growth ones in AI datacenters, automated driving, industrial and humanoid robots, wearables and IoT.\nOur semiconductor MEMS programmable solutions offer a rich feature set that enables customers to differentiate their products with higher performance, smaller size, lower power, and better reliability. With more than 4 billion devices shipped, SiTime is changing the timing industry. For more information, visit: www.sitime.com.\nJob Summary\nSiTime is seeking a hands-on Sr. AI Engineer to design, build, deploy, and operate production-grade AI applications and agents across the enterprise. This role will translate high-value business problems into secure, scalable solutions that connect large language models with SiTime data, knowledge, and core systems. The engineer will work across the full solution lifecycle, from rapid prototyping through evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement, with a strong focus on measurable business value, responsible AI, and reusable engineering patterns. It is not necessary to meet all job requirements to be a qualified candidate for the position. We value diverse experiences, perspectives, and career paths, and welcome candidates who are excited to contribute to our mission.\nResponsibilities\nBuild production AI applications. Design and implement LLM-powered applications and agentic workflows that move from prototype to reliable production use.\nDevelop enterprise agents and integrations. Connect AI solutions securely to business systems, data platforms, APIs, knowledge bases, and workflow tools using approved integration patterns.\nImplement retrieval and knowledge solutions. Build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, including ingestion, chunking, indexing, metadata, access controls, retrieval, and grounding.\nEngineer for quality and trust. Create evaluation datasets and automated tests for accuracy, completeness, safety, latency, reliability, and cost; add human review where appropriate.\nOwn deployment and operations. Establish CI/CD, observability, prompt and model versioning, incident response, and ongoing performance and cost monitoring for AI services.\nBuild reusable platform components. Develop shared services and patterns for model access, orchestration, secure connectors, memory, tool use, auditability, and policy enforcement.\nApply responsible AI and security controls. Protect confidential information and intellectual property through least privilege access, data handling controls, logging, red-teaming, and adherence to SiTime policies.\nPartner with business and technology teams. Work with product owners, business functions, Business Applications, Data, Security, and IT to define outcomes, prioritize use cases, and deliver solutions that fit existing workflows.\nMeasure business value. Instrument adoption and outcome metrics, quantify time, quality, or cycle-time improvements, and iterate based on evidence.\nAdvance engineering practices. Conduct design and code reviews, document architectures and runbooks, mentor engineers, and stay current on models, frameworks, and enterprise AI patterns.\nQualifications & Requirements\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field; a master's degree is preferred.\n7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years building AI/ML or generative AI solutions.\nDemonstrated experience shipping LLM-based applications or agents to production, not only prototypes.\nStrong Python skills and experience building production services, APIs, and distributed or cloud-native applications.\nWorking knowledge of LLM application patterns including prompting, RAG, tool/function calling, structured outputs, agent orchestration, and model evaluation.\nExperience with vector search, embeddings, document processing, data pipelines, and enterprise knowledge retrieval.\nExperience with cloud AI services and modern engineering practices, including containers, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, testing, monitoring, and source control.\nUnderstanding of identity, authorization, secrets management, data privacy, secure API design, and responsible AI controls.\nAbility to integrate with enterprise platforms such as ERP, CRM, collaboration, ticketing, and data systems.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate business needs into technical designs and explain trade-offs clearly.\nEnglish proficiency is required, including the ability to effectively communicate, collaborate, and perform job responsibilities in a professional business environment.\nPreferred Qualifications\nHands-on experience with the Microsoft AI ecosystem, such as Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Github Copilot, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Graph, and Power Platform.\nExperience with one or more orchestration frameworks and model providers, while maintaining provider-independent architecture where practical.\nExperience building governed enterprise agent marketplaces, reusable agent components, or model gateways.\nExperience with MLOps/LLMOps, automated evaluation, red-teaming, tracing, and AI cost management.\nExperience applying AI to enterprise workflows in Sales, Finance, Operations, HR, Engineering, or Customer Support.\nSemiconductor, electronics, or manufacturing industry experience\nDesired Characteristics & Attributes\nHands-on builder. Comfortable working across architecture, code, integrations, evaluation, deployment, and operations.\nBusiness-first mindset. Starts with the problem and expected outcome, then selects the simplest effective technology.\nPragmatic and accountable. Moves quickly, ships iteratively, and owns reliability and value after launch.\nSecurity- and quality-minded. Treats data protection, responsible AI, testing, and observability as core engineering requirements.\nCollaborative communicator. Builds trust with technical and non-technical partners and works effectively across functions.\nCurious and adaptable. Keeps pace with a rapidly changing field without chasing technology that lacks a clear use case.\nEnglish proficiency is required, including the ability to effectively communicate, collaborate, and perform job responsibilities in a professional business environment.\nCompensation: \nAt SiTime, we believe great work deserves great rewards. We offer a comprehensive and highly competitive compensation package designed to attract top talent.\nIn addition to base salary, this role is eligible for a quarterly bonus tied to the achievement of innovation goals-reflecting our commitment to recognizing meaningful impact. We also offer equity grants, providing a meaningful opportunity to share in the company’s future growth and success.\nBenefits offered: 401k plan, health and wellness that includes medical, dental, vision, life, parental leave, legal services, and time off plans.\nSiTime is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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