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You will design and build production-grade AI systems end to end, work directly with customers, and own large parts of the technical surface area. You should enjoy ambiguous problems, heavy systems work, and talking to users as much as writing code.\nThis role is ideal for someone who wants real ownership, high impact, and proximity to customers without the title baggage.\nWhat you will do\nDesign and build AI-driven systems that run continuously in production\nOwn backend and full-stack features from idea to deployment\nBuild and maintain reliable async systems (jobs, queues, workflows, retries, failure handling)\nWork directly with customers to understand problems, debug issues, and ship improvements quickly\nDesign clean service boundaries and APIs across a growing system\nHelp set technical direction, patterns, and quality bars as the team scales\nOperate and improve production systems (observability, reliability, performance)\nWhat we are looking for\nAvailable for full-time hours\nBe able to work during PST (Pacific Time Zone)\nStrong systems engineer with deep backend experience\nComfortable across the stack (Node, TypeScript, Next.js)\nCustomer-obsessed and opinionated about developer and user experience\nEnjoys ambiguity and building from first principles\nAble to reason about scale, failure modes, and long-running processes\nCommunicates clearly with both engineers and customers\nExperience\nAt least 7 years of professional software engineering experience\nExperience shipping and owning production systems end to end\nExperience working closely with customers is a big plus\nStartup experience is a plus but not required\nTechnical background (you should have strong experience in at least one of these)\nDistributed job / workflow systems such as Temporal, Trigger.dev, DBOS, or Airflow\nQueuing systems such as BullMQ or similar\nHeavy async systems, background processing, retries, idempotency\nService-oriented or event-driven architectures\nCI/CD and production operations\nLLM-powered systems and AI-driven products\nTech stack (today)\nTypeScript, Node.js, Next.js\nQueues, workflows, and background workers\nPostgres and modern data tooling\nLLMs and AI agents in production\nWhy this role\nYou will work on real systems used by real customers\nYou will have outsized ownership and influence on the product\nYou will help define how AI-native companies are built\nSmall team, high trust, high bar\nIf you are a senior engineer who enjoys building heavy systems, talking to customers, and owning real outcomes, we would love to talk.\n30-minute call w/ the co-founder (behavioral)\nOne-day take-home challenge\nOne-week work trial (paid)\nOffer","description_format":"text","description_chars":2856,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Argentina","iso":"AR","kind":"country"},{"name":"Brazil","iso":"BR","kind":"country"},{"name":"Colombia","iso":null,"kind":"country"},{"name":"Chile","iso":"CL","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","AI Agents"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T20:57:35Z"}],"liveness":{"score":68,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":0.788,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":7,"reasons":["conf:2","win:late"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":85000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/the-hog-senior-ai-engineer-full-stack","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/the-hog-senior-ai-engineer-full-stack.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T11:01:24Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2339,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2661,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}