Engineer, AI

Summary

Join MongoDB's AI Practice and help transform innovative ideas into real-world AI applications. As an AI Engineer, you will embed with strategic customers, architect and implement end-to-end AI solutions, and prototype solutions using MongoDB Atlas and generative AI technologies. You will provide technical leadership, engage with emerging AI technologies, and collaborate with various teams to deliver high-impact solutions. This role requires 5+ years of software development experience, including at least 2 years in designing and implementing AI solutions. The position is based remotely in Ireland and involves up to 30% travel. MongoDB offers a supportive and enriching culture with various benefits.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years of experience in software development, customer engineering, solution architecture, or similar roles, including at least 2 years dedicated to designing and implementing AI solutions
• Demonstrate a strong customer-centric approach and excellent communication skills, capable of clearly articulating complex technical solutions to diverse audiences
• Proficiency in building modern, full-stack applications with back end development in Python, Node.js, or Java, and front end development with frameworks like React, Angular or Next.js
• Understand and have implemented AI solutions like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, and LLMs for real-world, real-time applications
• Have hands-on experience deploying scalable AI applications on cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Demonstrate deep understanding of modern development practices, including CI/CD, test-driven development, and microservices
• Demonstrable experience in rapidly evolving, high-uncertainty projects, turning ambiguous problems into clear, measurable solutions
• Are willing to travel up to 30% to engage directly with strategic customers

Responsibilities

• Embed deeply with strategic customers, gaining a thorough understanding of their business strategy, challenges and technical requirements within the context of AI
• Architect, design, and implement end-to-end AI solutions using an iterative, experiment-driven approach
• Scope projects, define deliverables, and create actionable plans for both rapid prototypes and enterprise-scale deployments
• Hands-on develop scalable, secure, and performant AI solutions, working side-by-side with customer engineering teams
• Prototype and iterate solutions leveraging MongoDB Atlas, cloud technologies, LLMs, and generative AI technologies
• Provide technical leadership to ensure architectural alignment, quality, and successful customer outcomes
• Actively engage with emerging AI technologies to stay ahead of trends, incorporating new insights into customer solutions
• Collaborate closely with our Sales teams, Solution Architects, Product, and wider Professional Services to deliver high-impact, scalable solutions that drive measurable business outcomes
• Contribute to internal knowledge sharing, creating resources, best practices, and reusable assets that scale the broader AI capability across MongoDB

Preferred Qualifications

• Hold an advanced degree (MSc or PhD) in AI, Data Science, Machine Learning, or related fields
• Experience in R&D within the data science, AI/ML space especially around differing AI domains (agentic, discriminative, perceptual, conversational, reinforcement etc), data processing, optimisation, prompt engineering, model validation, model fine tuning and reranking
• Have knowledge of AI ethics, governance, and compliance frameworks
• Are proficient in additional languages such as French and English

Benefits

From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys