AI Applications Engineer

AI Applications Engineer 🔍Business Affairs : University IT (UIT), Redwood City, California, United States 📁Information Technology Services📅Sep 08, 2025 Post Date📅107213 Requisition #

Job Purpose

Are you an experienced AI / GenAI engineer who loves shipping real systems? Join Stanford’s Enterprise Technology team to design, implement, and support AI solutions across university use cases. In this role, you will influence strategic direction, requirements, and architecture for AI‑driven information systems, incorporating new capabilities (LLMs, RAG, agentic frameworks, MLOps) to improve workflow, efficiency, and decision-making. You may serve as the technical lead for specific AI tracks and interrelated applications.

This role blends hands-on engineering with mentorship and thought leadership. You will prototype and productionize—presenting proofs of concept, demoing solutions to stakeholders, and partnering with project managers, technical managers, architects, security, infrastructure, and application teams(ServiceNow, Salesforce, Oracle Financials, etc.)

Core Duties :

• AI / ML System Implementation & Integration : Translate requirements into well-engineered components (pipelines, vector stores, prompt / agent logic, evaluation hooks) and implement them in partnership with the platform / architecture team.
• Application & Agent Development : Build and maintain LLM-based agents / services that securely call enterprise tools (ServiceNow, Salesforce, Oracle, etc.) using approved APIs and tool-calling frameworks. Create lightweight internal SDKs / utilities where needed.
• RAG & Search Enablement : Configure and optimize RAG workflows (chunking, embeddings, metadata filters) and integrate with existing search / vector infrastructure—escalating architecture changes to designated architects.
• MLOps & SDLC Practices : Follow and improve team standards for CI / CD, testing, prompt / model versioning, and observability. Own feature delivery through dev / test / prod, coordinating with release managers.
• Governance, Security & Compliance : Apply established guardrails (PII redaction, policy checks, access controls). Partner with InfoSec and architects to close gaps; document decisions and risks.
• Metrics & Reporting : Instrument services with KPIs (latency, cost, accuracy / quality) and build lightweight dashboards. Deep BI / reporting not primary.
• Documentation & Communication : Write clear technical docs (APIs, workflows, runbooks), user stories, and acceptance criteria. Support and sometimes lead UAT / test activities.
• Collaboration & Mentorship : Facilitate working sessions with stakeholders; mentor junior engineers through code reviews and pair programming; provide concise updates and risk flags.

Education & Experience :

Bachelor's degree and eight years of relevant experience or a combination of education and relevant experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

Certifications and Licenses :

strong demonstrable portfolio of production AI systems.

Physical Requirements

Working Conditions :

Work Standards :

The expected pay range for this position is $169,728 to $190,000 per annum.

Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs.

At Stanford University, base pay represents only one aspect of the comprehensive rewards package. The Cardinal at Work website ( https : / / cardinalatwork.stanford.edu / benefits-rewards ) provides detailed information on Stanford’s extensive range of benefits and rewards offered to employees. Specifics about the rewards package for this position may be discussed during the hiring process.

Why Stanford is for You :

Stanford University has revolutionized the way we live and enrich the world. Supporting this mission is our diverse and dedicated 17,000 staff. We seek talent driven to impact the future of our legacy. Our culture and unique perks empower you with :

The job duties listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification and are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary depending on department or program needs without changing the general nature and scope of the job or level of responsibility. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned.

Stanford is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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