AI/ML Engineer at West500 Partners
Lakeland, FL
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Jul 19, 2026
Lakeland, FL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on building and owning the AI infrastructure layer for a compliance software platform — including self-hosted LLM deployments, multi-agent workflows, RAG architectures, and internal developer tooling. The work is foundational rather than application-level, suited to an engineer with hands-on experience deploying open-source models and designing reusable AI services for production environments.
Senior level · Remote
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 12,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 5,100–18,400
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
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 (7)
The role is titled 'AI/ML Engineer' with no level modifier — advertised seniority is Unspecified; however, the scope (architecting an AI platform, building reusable SDKs/internal developer platforms, multi-agent orchestration at scale) clearly supports a Senior classification.
AI orchestration frameworks (Semantic Kernel, LangChain, LangGraph, Microsoft.Extensions.AI) are listed under the main requirements section but introduced with 'such as', indicating the specific tool is interchangeable — captured as a single preferred skill with alternatives. The requirement for familiarity with *some* orchestration framework is real but the posting uses 'Familiarity with' language, which is softer than a hard gate.
.NET/C# appears only under 'Nice to Have' and is treated as preferred accordingly.
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
The posting notes the client is headquartered in Florida and prefers candidates in the Southeast and Central U.S., but the caller has confirmed this is a fully-remote, national-pool role — no metro is set.
Visa sponsorship is not available; candidates must be US citizens or otherwise authorized to work in the US.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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