Senior AI Engineer

Position:
Senior AI Engineer

Company:
Lantern

Location:
United States, Dallas, TX

Employment type:
Not specified

Work Arrangement:
Hybrid (3x in office/week)

Short Summary:
Lantern is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to drive the design, development, and scaling of Generative AI and agentic systems. This role involves technical ownership of complex LLM-powered applications and multi-agent workflows, setting engineering standards, and collaborating with various teams to create production-grade AI solutions.

Responsibilities:
- Architect and deliver production LLM-powered capabilities including advanced RAG pipelines, structured extraction, multi-document reasoning, dialogue systems, and domain-specific language models.
- Own prompt engineering strategy and establish team standards for prompt management.
- Lead the selection and integration of embedding models and hybrid retrieval architectures.
- Define and implement LLM evaluation frameworks and automated quality benchmarks.
- Lead the architecture and implementation of production agentic systems.
- Write production-quality, modular, and well-tested code; set the technical bar through rigorous design and code reviews.
- Serve as the primary technical partner for product, clinical operations, marketing, and data teams.

Requirement:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience building and deploying production AI/ML systems, with at least 2–3 years focused on LLM and GenAI applications.
- Strong proficiency in Python and software engineering fundamentals.
- Deep hands-on experience with LLM APIs and advanced prompt engineering.
- Proven experience designing and deploying production RAG systems.
- Experience with cloud platforms (preferably Azure) and containerized deployment.

Benefits:
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Short & Long Term Disability
- Life Insurance
- 401k with company match
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave