Senior AI Engineer

This role may require in-person interview/s in Austin, Texas

About Osano

Osano is an innovative B-Corporation built around a simple belief: privacy is a fundamental right. Since day one, we’ve been focused on giving modern enterprises the ability to innovate quickly, stay competitive, and earn customer trust by respecting data privacy and complying with consent guidelines. Our products help organizations operate confidently in a rapidly evolving regulatory and technological landscape.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join our Engineering team. This person will play a pivotal role in architecting and delivering privacy-first AI systems that power the next generation of Osano ’s product capabilities.

This role goes beyond wrapping APIs or building chat interfaces. You will design and deploy autonomous AI agents, strict-source-following RAG systems, and evaluation frameworks that ensure reliability, compliance, and production-grade performance.

This position is ideal for someone who is highly technical, thrives in ambiguity, takes ownership of 0→1 initiatives, and believes responsible AI development is non-negotiable.

Responsibilities

AI System Architecture

Architect and deploy autonomous AI agents and multi-agent workflows

Design strict-source-following Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems that minimize hallucination and enforce citation integrity

Implement guardrails, structured outputs, and validation layers

Production Engineering

Build scalable backend services using FastAPI

Orchestrate agentic workflows using LangGraph

Deploy and manage AI workloads within AWS or Azure

Optimize model performance, reliability, and cost

Evaluation & Continuous Improvement

Develop rigorous evaluation pipelines measuring

Accuracy

Citation adherence

Latency

Reliability

Establish metric-driven iteration cycles

Continuously refine deployed systems based on measurable outcomes

Privacy-First Development

Embed privacy-by-design principles across the AI stack

Ensure compliance, data sovereignty, and secure handling practices

Collaborate cross-functionally to align AI capabilities with regulatory standards

About You

You’re curious, self-directed, and motivated to learn quickly.

You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and creating clarity for others.

You’re excited about privacy, responsible AI, and building trustworthy technology.

You are willing to relentlessly pursue the best, most responsible ways to leverage AI—without overselling its capabilities or ignoring its limitations.

Must-Haves

5+ years of professional experience

Experience deploying and managing AI workloads in AWS or Azure

Deep technical understanding of LLM usage and orchestration beyond prompt engineering

Strong expertise in Python AI ecosystem, specifically

FastAPI

LangGraph

Proven experience building

Complex RAG systems

Autonomous AI agents

Experience building evaluation frameworks and iterating based on performance metrics

Nice-to-Haves

Experience with Knowledge Graphs to enhance RAG precision

Familiarity with Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)

Experience with data anonymization techniques

Background in compliance-heavy or regulated environments

Why Us

We're a welcoming team that's dependable, curious, moves fast, and full of talented people

We're a B-corporation with a mission that matters, in a high-growth space with significant potential

You'll have access to our training program, well-defined career paths, and a leadership team that values professional development

Competitive-pay compensation and ownership interest/equity

Unlimited paid time off, plus a requirement to take at least two weeks off per year

We're a Best Place for Working Parents and offer paid parental leave for all new parents

Osano sponsors individual premiums on base plans at 100% and dependent premiums at 50% for Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance via Aetna

A fully and permanently remote company, so you can work from anywhere in the U.S.

Receive a MacBook and $600 to craft your home workspace

Annual company trip designed to foster connection, creativity, and fun

Mental health benefits with free memberships to mindfulness and talk therapy services