Staff AI Engineer - AI Infrastructure & Agentic Platform
ShiftKey
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Jul 15, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor role responsible for owning and evolving an AI infrastructure platform at a healthcare staffing marketplace. The work centers on extending a production retrieval stack (semantic search, re-ranking, HyDE) into a broader organizational knowledge platform, architecting agentic systems on AWS, and designing graph-based retrieval — all within a HIPAA-regulated environment. Suits an experienced engineer with a strong background in production LLM systems, retrieval engineering, and cloud AI infrastructure.
Staff level · 7+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 380–2,750
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The 7+ years overall / 2+ years AI/LLM production requirement is stated in the requirements section; the 2-year AI/LLM figure is attached to that specific experience type and is reflected on the LLMs skill.
Python, Go, and TypeScript are presented as interchangeable language options ('in Go, Python, or TypeScript'); Python is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
AWS Bedrock is explicitly preferred ('Bedrock preferred given our AWS stack') but the requirement is framed as hands-on experience with a managed cloud AI platform — AWS Bedrock or Azure AI Foundry — making it a hard gate on the capability with Bedrock as the preferred option.
Graph-based retrieval is explicitly described as 'on our roadmap, not in production' and something the hire will define — it is listed as a forward-looking responsibility rather than a required incoming skill, so it is marked preferred.
Prior healthcare experience is explicitly called 'a plus, not a requirement' in the JD.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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