Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer role is onsite in Seattle, WA, with an office-first model requiring at least four days onsite each week; the stated base salary is $170,000–$200,000 annually. The role is part of Metropolis’s Applied AI organization, which develops AI-first solutions for company operations. The engineer partners with business units to turn operational challenges into production AI systems, from workflow discovery and prototyping through deployment and reliability monitoring. This work is intended to automate manual processes and improve business outcomes and user adoption.

What you'll do

• Work with business leaders, operations teams, and process analysts to identify automation opportunities and define engineering specifications
• build and deploy AI applications and agentic workflows
• architect and maintain LLM prompt pipelines, tool integrations, and retrieval-augmented generation systems
• build data pipelines
• monitor production reliability and business impact
• evaluate emerging AI tools.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior ai engineer

seattle wa

metropolis

full-time

applied ai

python

llm systems

prompt engineering

agentic workflows

rag

data pipelines

$170k–$200k annually

four days in office

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Healthcare benefits, 401(k), short- and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, stock option plan, and bonus plans may be available.

Why this role

Internal forward-deployed engineering role combining production LLM systems, business partnership, and end-to-end ownership; office-first schedule requires at least four onsite days weekly.

About the employer

Metropolis is hiring for this role. Industry: Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services. Sector: 51.