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Senior AI Engineer Own Your Impact. At Propio, we don't believe careers happen to people. We believe people create them. Here, you're trusted to make decisions, challenge assumptions, drive innovation, and shape outcomes. Your success is not limited by hierarchy or tenure. It's fueled by your ambition, your curiosity, and your willingness to own your impact. If you're looking for a role where you can simply maintain the status quo, this probably isn't it, but if you're looking for a place where your ideas matter, your growth is accelerated, and your work creates meaningful impact across the world, we'd love to talk. Why Propio? Every day, communication changes lives. A patient receives care they otherwise couldn't access. A family gains critical information. A business connects with a customer. A community becomes more inclusive. These moments happen because barriers are removed. And behind those moments are Propio team members who show up every day to solve problems, innovate, and build the future. This isn't just work. This is world impact. As a Senior AI Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to the continued growth and transformation of Propio. You'll be empowered to: • Take ownership of important initiatives and outcomes. • Drive meaningful business results. • Influence decisions and contribute new ideas. • Partner with talented, high-performing team members. • Challenge yourself through continuous learning and growth. • Help shape the future of a rapidly growing organization. What You'll Own We are looking for a highly skilled and hands-on Senior AI Engineer to lead the design, development, and productionization of advanced AI systems. This role is for someone who can operate as both a technical leader and a strong individual contributor. You will own complex AI initiatives end-to-end—from problem definition, research, experimentation, and architecture through implementation, evaluation, deployment, and production optimization. This is not a people-management-only or project-coordination role. You are expected to remain deeply hands-on, write production code, review critical implementations, investigate difficult technical problems, and lead by building. • Own the architecture, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade AI systems from concept to production, including LLM, generative AI, agentic, multimodal, speech AI, and machine learning systems. • Prototype, build, and deploy real-time AI applications and infrastructure for speech, voice agents, LLM-powered workflows, and other latency-sensitive AI experiences. • Lead the development of AI capabilities including agent orchestration, tool calling, RAG, structured generation, memory, reasoning workflows, guardrails, and evaluation systems. • Evaluate and select models, architectures, frameworks, and technologies based on measurable tradeoffs across quality, latency, reliability, scalability, and cost. • Stay current with emerging AI research and industry trends, Rapidly prototype new AI approaches and convert successful experiments into reliable, scalable, and maintainable production systems. • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, conduct high-quality design and code reviews, and influence technical direction across a team. What Makes Someone Successful Here The most successful people at Propio aren't necessarily the ones with the longest resumes. They're the people who: • Take ownership instead of waiting for direction. • Embrace challenges as opportunities to grow. • Continuously seek better ways of working. • Turn ideas into action. • Hold themselves and others accountable to high standards. • Are driven by making a measurable impact. Requirements What You'll Bring Required Qualifications: • Master’s degree in Engineering, preferably in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience. • 7+ years of hands-on full-stack software engineering experience, with significant experience building production-grade AI/ML backend systems and strong proficiency in Python. • 3+ years of experience building production-grade modern AI systems, particularly real-time speech AI, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice agents, conversational AI, multimodal systems, or agentic systems. • Experience building and operating production systems on cloud platforms in AWS, including production-grade CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code tools such as AWS CDK. • Experience with real-time speech AI systems, real-time audio processing, or other latency-sensitive applications, using technologies or platforms such as OpenAI, Deepgram, Whisper, Hugging Face Transformers, or similar tools. • Experience building multi-agent or complex agent orchestration systems using LangChain or similar frameworks. • Experience working in healthcare, legal, or other regulated environments, including familiarity with AI safety, HIPAA, PHI, and Section 1557 requirements. Preferred Qualifications • Prior experience with multilingual AI systems or low-resource language challenges is a plus. This may not be the right role for you if: • You prefer primarily coordinating projects rather than designing and building systems yourself. • Your AI experience is primarily limited to integrating third-party AI APIs without owning the underlying architecture, evaluation, reliability, or production behavior. • You rely primarily on prompt experimentation without systematic evaluation, metrics, testing, or engineering rigor. • You have primarily built demos or prototypes and have limited experience operating AI systems in production. • You prefer working from detailed specifications rather than owning ambiguous technical problems from problem definition through implementation. • You are looking for a people-management-only role. • You are uncomfortable diving into code, debugging production issues, or reviewing critical technical implementations. • You are uncomfortable making technical decisions when information is incomplete and there is no obvious solution. Even if your experience doesn't perfectly match every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We're looking for potential, drive, and a commitment to growth as much as experience. What You'll Gain Own Your Growth: We invest in people who invest in themselves. You'll have opportunities to learn, develop, and expand your capabilities while building a meaningful career. Own Your Impact: You'll see the connection between your work and our success. We believe great people deserve the opportunity to make a real difference. Own Your Innovation: The best ideas can come from anywhere. We encourage curiosity, creativity, and challenging the way things have always been done. Own Your Success: Whether you're building expertise, pursuing leadership opportunities, or expanding your career path, we'll give you room to grow and the support to get there. At Propio, your work doesn't just move a company forward. It helps connect people, communities, and opportunities across the world. Ready to Build Something Bigger? Apply today and discover what happens when you own your success. #LI-JS1 #LI-Hybrid Notice of AI Use in Job Application Review As part of our commitment in creating a fair, efficient, and consistent hiring process we may use artificial intelligence (AI) to help our recruiting teams organize, summarize, and analyze information provided by candidates, including resumes, application responses, and other materials submitted during the application process.AI may be used to identify patterns, highlight relevant skills, and experience, and assist in comparing a candidate’s qualifications with the requirement of a specific role. These tools are to improve efficiency and consistency while supporting more informed hiring decisions, which will ultimately be made by the hiring team.

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Senior AI Engineer
Own Your Impact. At Propio, we don't believe careers happen to people. We believe people create them.
As a Senior AI Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to the continued growth and transformation of Propio.
Take ownership of important initiatives and outcomes.
Drive meaningful business results.
Influence decisions and contribute new ideas.
Partner with talented, high-performing team members.
Challenge yourself through continuous learning and growth.
Help shape the future of a rapidly growing organization.
What You'll Own
Own the architecture, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade AI systems from concept to production, including LLM, generative AI, agentic, multimodal, speech AI, and machine learning systems.
Prototype, build, and deploy real-time AI applications and infrastructure for speech, voice agents, LLM-powered workflows, and other latency-sensitive AI experiences.

Nice-to-haves

Prior experience with multilingual AI systems or low-resource language challenges is a plus.
This may not be the right role for you if:
You prefer primarily coordinating projects rather than designing and building systems yourself.
Your AI experience is primarily limited to integrating third-party AI APIs without owning the underlying architecture, evaluation, reliability, or production behavior.
You rely primarily on prompt experimentation without systematic evaluation, metrics, testing, or engineering rigor.
You have primarily built demos or prototypes and have limited experience operating AI systems in production.
You prefer working from detailed specifications rather than owning ambiguous technical problems from problem definition through implementation.
You are looking for a people-management-only role.
You are uncomfortable diving into code, debugging production issues, or reviewing critical technical implementations.
You are uncomfortable making technical decisions when information is incomplete and there is no obvious solution.
Even if your experience doesn't perfectly match every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We're looking for potential, drive, and a commitment to growth as much as experience.
What You'll Gain

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