{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"31868f513afbc45e77b1df54","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/31868f513afbc45e77b1df54","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/31868f513afbc45e77b1df54","title":"Senior Applied AI Engineer (Enterprise AI / Python)","description":"About BrightPlan\n\nBrightPlan is a leader in Total Financial Wellness. We provide a comprehensive global solution that addresses all aspects of employees’ financial health at every stage of life, empowering HR teams to enhance the employee experience and better attract, retain, and engage talent.\n\nWe are a remote-first SaaS company building practical AI-powered solutions that improve real financial outcomes for users. Our team values accountability, curiosity, thoughtful execution, and continuous learning.\n\nWe are expanding our engineering team to build the next generation of AI-powered financial wellness tools. This role focuses on building and shipping practical AI capabilities within a production SaaS platform rather than on research-oriented model development.\n\nThe Role\n\nWe are looking for a Senior Applied AI Engineer to help design, build, and scale the systems that power AI across the BrightPlan platform. This role will play an important part in shaping the evolution of AI systems within BrightPlan’s product architecture.\n\nThis role focuses on developing reliable, scalable infrastructure and frameworks for LLM-powered applications, enabling the broader engineering team to deliver reliable, high-quality AI features. You will work closely with the CTO to help shape technical decisions around AI architecture, model usage, and system evolution.\n\nThis role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys owning complex technical problems and building the systems that make production AI reliable and scalable.\n\nThis is an opportunity to have significant technical impact in a real-world fintech environment.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\nDesign and implement scalable AI services and supporting infrastructure that enable AI-powered product capabilities across the platform\nDevelop solutions for evaluating and improving LLM output quality\nBuild frameworks and tooling that support AI feature development across the engineering team\nDevelop and maintain systems that support model tuning, evaluation, and optimization\nContribute directly to deployment and operational reliability of AI services in production environments\nOptimize AI services for latency, cost efficiency, and reliability\nPartner with the CTO to evaluate emerging AI capabilities and recommend technical approaches for model usage, architecture, and system design\nProvide technical guidance to engineers building AI-powered features and help establish effective development patterns and engineering best practices\nContribute to technical architecture discussions related to AI systems and platform capabilities\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\n\nContribute meaningfully to establishing reliable systems supporting AI-powered product features within your first 90 days\nImprove the performance, consistency, and reliability of AI-generated outputs\nDevelop systems and frameworks that enable rapid experimentation while maintaining production-grade reliability and engineering quality\nHelp establish development patterns and technical practices that enable other engineers to build AI-powered features more effectively\nDemonstrate strong technical leadership and ownership of AI system design and implementation\n\nRequirements\n\nQualifications\n\nWhen applying, please include a brief description of one AI-powered feature, service, or system you helped build or support in production.\n\nRequired\n\n5+ years of software engineering experience, including strong backend or systems development experience\nStrong Python development experience\nExperience designing and building backend services or distributed systems\nExperience integrating LLM APIs, generative AI services, or AI-enabled capabilities into production systems\nExperience evaluating or improving AI model performance in production environments\nStrong problem-solving and systems design skills\nAbility to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team\n\nNice to Have\n\nExperience with FastAPI or similar frameworks\nExperience with model fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt evaluation, or LLM evaluation methods\nExperience building internal tooling or infrastructure supporting AI applications\nExperience working with vector databases or AI data pipelines\nExperience working in fintech or B2B SaaS environments\n\nBenefits\n\nWhy Join BrightPlan\n\nBuild meaningful technology that helps people improve their financial lives\nWork on practical AI applications deployed in a live fintech product\nCollaborate in a remote-first environment with experienced product and engineering leaders\nCompetitive compensation, benefits, and equity\n\nCompensation\n\nThe estimated annual base salary range for this role is $160,000 to $195,000, depending on qualifications, experience, and location.\n\nThis role is also eligible for:\n\nAnnual performance bonus\nEquity participation\nComprehensive benefits package\n\nActual compensation will be determined based on relevant qualifications, skills, experience, and geographic location.\n\nBrightPlan is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and to consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition or disability.\n\nTo work at BrightPlan, you must live and work in the United States and be eligible for employment by any employer in the U.S. You must have a dedicated workspace and reliable internet service. At\n\nBrightPlan, base salary is determined by job-related experience, education/training, related job skills, residence location, as well as market indicators. Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the base pay range for this role is listed annually above.\n\nThis position is eligible for BrightPlan's standard benefits offering, including medical/dental/vision, 401(k) with company contribution, annual performance bonus, life insurance, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. This benefits information is based on BrightPlan's good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.\n\nBrightPlan is not accepting agency referrals; only direct applicants will be considered","company":"Brightplan","rawCompany":"brightplan","city":"Denver","state":"CO","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-19T18:07:37.167Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1211.00","title":"Computer Systems Analysts","slug":"computer-systems-analysts"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Applied AI Engineer (Enterprise AI / Python)","description":"About BrightPlan\n\nBrightPlan is a leader in Total Financial Wellness. We provide a comprehensive global solution that addresses all aspects of employees’ financial health at every stage of life, empowering HR teams to enhance the employee experience and better attract, retain, and engage talent.\n\nWe are a remote-first SaaS company building practical AI-powered solutions that improve real financial outcomes for users. Our team values accountability, curiosity, thoughtful execution, and continuous learning.\n\nWe are expanding our engineering team to build the next generation of AI-powered financial wellness tools. This role focuses on building and shipping practical AI capabilities within a production SaaS platform rather than on research-oriented model development.\n\nThe Role\n\nWe are looking for a Senior Applied AI Engineer to help design, build, and scale the systems that power AI across the BrightPlan platform. This role will play an important part in shaping the evolution of AI systems within BrightPlan’s product architecture.\n\nThis role focuses on developing reliable, scalable infrastructure and frameworks for LLM-powered applications, enabling the broader engineering team to deliver reliable, high-quality AI features. You will work closely with the CTO to help shape technical decisions around AI architecture, model usage, and system evolution.\n\nThis role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys owning complex technical problems and building the systems that make production AI reliable and scalable.\n\nThis is an opportunity to have significant technical impact in a real-world fintech environment.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\nDesign and implement scalable AI services and supporting infrastructure that enable AI-powered product capabilities across the platform\nDevelop solutions for evaluating and improving LLM output quality\nBuild frameworks and tooling that support AI feature development across the engineering team\nDevelop and maintain systems that support model tuning, evaluation, and optimization\nContribute directly to deployment and operational reliability of AI services in production environments\nOptimize AI services for latency, cost efficiency, and reliability\nPartner with the CTO to evaluate emerging AI capabilities and recommend technical approaches for model usage, architecture, and system design\nProvide technical guidance to engineers building AI-powered features and help establish effective development patterns and engineering best practices\nContribute to technical architecture discussions related to AI systems and platform capabilities\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\n\nContribute meaningfully to establishing reliable systems supporting AI-powered product features within your first 90 days\nImprove the performance, consistency, and reliability of AI-generated outputs\nDevelop systems and frameworks that enable rapid experimentation while maintaining production-grade reliability and engineering quality\nHelp establish development patterns and technical practices that enable other engineers to build AI-powered features more effectively\nDemonstrate strong technical leadership and ownership of AI system design and implementation\n\nRequirements\n\nQualifications\n\nWhen applying, please include a brief description of one AI-powered feature, service, or system you helped build or support in production.\n\nRequired\n\n5+ years of software engineering experience, including strong backend or systems development experience\nStrong Python development experience\nExperience designing and building backend services or distributed systems\nExperience integrating LLM APIs, generative AI services, or AI-enabled capabilities into production systems\nExperience evaluating or improving AI model performance in production environments\nStrong problem-solving and systems design skills\nAbility to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team\n\nNice to Have\n\nExperience with FastAPI or similar frameworks\nExperience with model fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt evaluation, or LLM evaluation methods\nExperience building internal tooling or infrastructure supporting AI applications\nExperience working with vector databases or AI data pipelines\nExperience working in fintech or B2B SaaS environments\n\nBenefits\n\nWhy Join BrightPlan\n\nBuild meaningful technology that helps people improve their financial lives\nWork on practical AI applications deployed in a live fintech product\nCollaborate in a remote-first environment with experienced product and engineering leaders\nCompetitive compensation, benefits, and equity\n\nCompensation\n\nThe estimated annual base salary range for this role is $160,000 to $195,000, depending on qualifications, experience, and location.\n\nThis role is also eligible for:\n\nAnnual performance bonus\nEquity participation\nComprehensive benefits package\n\nActual compensation will be determined based on relevant qualifications, skills, experience, and geographic location.\n\nBrightPlan is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and to consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition or disability.\n\nTo work at BrightPlan, you must live and work in the United States and be eligible for employment by any employer in the U.S. You must have a dedicated workspace and reliable internet service. 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