# Senior AI Engineer - Model Selection and Orchestration

Senior AI Engineer with experience building production AI systems, model orchestration, tool calling, retrieval, and modern software engineering practices to build reliable AI capabilities across customer-facing and internal experiences. Hands-on engineer who owns components of the decision and orchestration layer that determines when agents should use a model, tool, retrieval system, or deterministic workflow, balancing quality, safety, latency, reliability, and cost. Remote-first opportunity for US-based employees with the option to work in-person out of our Manhattan office. Start your adventure with Zip Become a part of Zip's Engineering team and take on exciting challenges at the intersection of AI, software engineering, and financial technology. At Zip, our engineers build systems that move real money and serve millions of customers, making reliability, security, and sound engineering judgment fundamental to how we build. We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer to help turn rapidly evolving AI capabilities into dependable customer experiences and useful tools for our teams. You’ll work within our AI Platforms team, building shared capabilities that support Zia, our customer-facin

- **Id**: 1092463
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zip-co-senior-ai-engineer-model-selection-and-orchestration>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-21T15:03:17Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T01:59:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 53
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10082
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity, Flexible schedule, Parental leave, Unlimited PTO
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Buy Now, Pay Later

## Company

- **Id**: 685645
- **Name**: Zip Co
- **Domain**: zipcolimited.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zipcolimited>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 92
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.333
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 56
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 162000
- **Max**: 205000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 205000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Gemini** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Google ADK** — Optional: yes
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 53

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-21T15:12:29Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 59
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.789
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 51
- **Expected fill days**: 56
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 205000
- **Is top pay**: no

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