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Senior Engineer, Applied AI

Athena

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Aug 27, 2025
Palo Alto, CA, US
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Athena is looking to build the best delegation and agentic automation platform in the world by combining Human+AI capabilities to delegate complex tasks.

Requirements

  • Experience in prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, and testing/tuning.
  • Strong coding skills in relevant programming languages such as Python, along with experience in AI frameworks and libraries.
  • Deep understanding of AI model development processes, including training, validation, and deployment of machine learning models.
  • Exceptional problem-solving abilities, with a focus on delivering practical AI solutions that address real-world challenges.
  • Implement task automation through the creation of smart AI Agent workflows and leveraging cutting edge Agent tooling like OpenAI SDK, CrewAI, MCP/A2A protocols etc
  • Implement and maintain RAG systems for relevance and accuracy of AI model use cases, ensuring high-quality output.
  • Lead efforts in fine-tuning AI models to specific domains or tasks, improving their performance and evaluation.

Responsibilities

  • Agentic Workflow creation: Implement task automation through the creation of smart AI Agent workflows and leveraging cutting edge Agent tooling like OpenAI SDK, CrewAI, MCP/A2A protocols etc
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Implement and maintain RAG systems for relevance and accuracy of AI model use cases, ensuring high-quality output.
  • Model Fine-Tuning (SFT + RLHF): Lead efforts in fine-tuning AI models to specific domains or tasks, improving their performance and evaluation.
  • Data Collection Workflows: Influence the design decisions on creation data collection workflows to fully leverage the treasure trove of data Athena has to offer
  • Model Testing/Tuning: Design and execute rigorous testing protocols for AI models, and tune them to optimize for accuracy, speed, and relevance.
  • Prompt Engineering: Develop and optimize AI prompts that effectively guide model behavior to achieve desired outcomes in various use cases and understanding how various SOTA LLM models react under different prompts
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to integrate AI capabilities into Athena’s product offerings.

Other

  • Excellent communication skills, with the capability to articulate complex AI concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team environment, driving progress and innovation in AI applications.
  • Comfortable in a fast-paced, ever-changing landscape, with the ability to pivot between projects and priorities as needed.
  • A master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical field is highly desirable.