Senior AI Engineer

AI Engineer

Mini-Circuits designs, manufactures, and distributes integrated circuits, modules, and sub-systems for high-performance radio frequency (RF) and microwave applications. With design, sales, and manufacturing locations in over 30 countries, Mini-Circuits' products are used in a range of wired and wireless communications applications. Our products are also used in detection, measurement, and imaging applications, including military communication, guidance, and electronic countermeasure systems, commercial, scientific, military land, sea, and aircraft; automotive systems, medical systems, and industrial test equipment.

Mini-Circuits sells its products to over 20,000 customers globally through our direct sales force, applications engineering staff, sales representatives, as well as through our extensive website.

Position Summary: As an AI engineer, you'll work closely with a cross-functional team of customer support engineers, sales team, technical team, and product managers to identify business problems, define uses cases, and build AI-powered applications that change how our internal users work and how our customers interact.

Salary Range: $145,000 - $190,000 per year

Job Function:

• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered applications to meet business needs and solve problems.
• Build AI applications using cloud native services, LLMs, incorporating RAG, text-to-SQL, and agentic workflows.
• Identify data sources, perform data mining, data sync, and analyze large datasets to extract insights.
• Collaborate with application and support teams to integrate AI solutions into existing systems.
• Conduct POCs to develop and optimize algorithms for performance and scalability in new use cases.
• Database design and management tasks to support data storage requirements.
• Develop AI strategies, roadmaps, and conduct reviews with senior management and business users.
• Stay updated on the latest advancements in AI/ML technologies and methodologies.
• Document processes, models, and findings for future reference and knowledge sharing.
• Deploy applications on cloud infrastructure for scalability, high-availability, and resilience.
• Manage user access to the AI applications and regular auditing and reviewing best practices.
• Develop Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy for Infrastructure and Applications.
• Administration and maintenance of the AI systems, hosting, configuring, securing the data and access and implementing best practices.
• Regularly and promptly reporting issues and application health to management.
• Patching and upgrading the environment as defined by corporate policy.
• Develop and maintain the necessary documentation, including Requirements documentation, Architecture/Design documentation, and Test Cases.
• Ensure data backups are regularly taking place.
• On-the-job training includes the organization technologies and tools overview and software development processes.

The duties, responsibilities, and expectations described above are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the member, within the scope of the position.

Qualifications:

• B.S. in Computer Science or related field with 8+ years' experience; or M.S. in Computer Science or related field with 7+ years' experience.
• 7-10 years required (10+ years preferred) – Overall 7+ years of hands-on experience in IT industry designing, developing, testing, and managing software applications and cloud infrastructure.
• 3 years' required experience in building AI/ML applications (using Amazon Bedrock or similar tools)
• Building Agentic AI based applications.
• Programming languages such as Python, Java, and C.
• 3 years' required experience in database management
• Relational and no-sql database management.
• Data mining practices and tools.
• 1-2 years' experience (preferred) in
• Design, develop, and maintain cloud hosted AI solutions, experience in developing AI agents, prompts, and knowledge bases.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit, and use hands to operate a computer keyboard. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Additional Requirements/Skills:

• Comply, understand, and support corporate safety initiatives to ensure a safe work environment.
• Ability and willingness to abide by Company's Code of Conduct.
• Occasional travel, some overnight, as required.

Disclaimer: The listed qualifications and requirements for each position are intended as guidelines. Mini-Circuits reserves the right to hire outside of these guidelines at Management's discretion.

Mini-Circuits is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, familial status, gender identity, gender dysphoria, pregnancy-related condition, and domestic violence victim status or protected class characteristic, or any other protected characteristic as established by federal or state law.