Company Description Redica Systems is the Intelligence Cloud for life sciences, transforming regulatory complexity into connected, proactive intelligence. Redica's platform helps the world's leading Pharmaceutical and MedTech companies stay inspection-ready, manage supplier risk, and keep pace with evolving global regulations. Built on the Redica Catalyst Platform and powered by Redica ID, Redica unifies the industry's most complete regulatory and inspection datasets, sourced from hundreds of global health authorities, into trusted intelligence for quality and regulatory teams. The Redica Intelligence Cloud brings data together to anticipate risk, accelerate compliance, and enable smarter, faster decisions across the enterprise. More information is available at redica.com. Job Description We’re looking for an AI Engineer to join our team as we continue to develop the first-of-its-kind Quality and Regulatory Intelligence (QRI) platform for the life sciences industry. In this role, you will help build and deploy AI-powered capabilities that extract insights from complex regulatory datasets, inspection reports, and government data sources. You will work closely with product managers, data engineers, and software engineers to integrate LLM-powered systems into the Redica platform. The ideal candidate maintains a high bar for engineering quality while remaining hands-on in the code, building scalable AI services and applications that operate reliably in production environments. Core Responsibilities • Build and deploy AI-powered applications using large language models and generative AI frameworks. • Develop conversational systems and intelligent workflows using LLMs and agentic frameworks. • Integrate AI capabilities into existing platform services and APIs. • Design and implement backend APIs and services supporting AI functionality using Python and FastAPI. • Develop microservices that enable scalable AI inference and data processing. • Integrate AI services with other platform components to deliver end-to-end product capabilities. • Work with structured and unstructured regulatory datasets to power AI-driven insights. • Implement hybrid search and retrieval workflows using vector databases and graph databases. • Integrate AI models with data pipelines and data stores to support scalable inference. • Deploy and maintain AI systems in production environments. • Contribute to testing, monitoring, and performance optimization of AI services. • Assist in troubleshooting production issues related to AI systems and model inference. • Work closely with product managers and engineering teams to translate product requirements into AI-powered solutions. • Participate in engineering discussions, code reviews, and sprint planning. • Contribute to continuous improvement of AI development practices and system performance. About you • Tech Savvy: Demonstrates strong technical proficiency in AI technologies and modern development tools, and actively adopts emerging technologies that improve system performance and engineering productivity. • Manages Complexity: Works effectively within complex systems involving AI models, data pipelines, and distributed services. • Plans and Aligns: Executes development tasks within defined scopes and aligns work with product and engineering priorities. • Collaborates: Works effectively with cross-functional teams and contributes constructively toward shared goals. • Manages Ambiguity: Adapts to evolving datasets, model approaches, and product requirements while maintaining steady development progress. • Engaged: Shares our values and possesses the essential competencies needed to thrive at Redica, as outlined here: https://redica.com/about-us/careers. Qualifications • 3+ years of experience as an ML Engineer developing and productionizing traditional ML models and/or Generative AI applications. • Hands-on experience in Python. • Strong experience in building and deploying LLM and Generative AI applications at scale. • Extensive hands-on experience with third-party LLM provider APIs (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock) and open-source LLMs (Llama, Mistral). • Experience in building conversational systems using LLMs and agentic frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, CrewAI). • Hands-on experience with microservices architecture and orchestration, including building backend APIs using FastAPI. • Experience with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone), graph databases (e.g., Neo4j), and hybrid search. • Hands-on experience working with SQL (e.g., Postgres, Snowflake) and NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB) databases/warehouses. • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field. Bonus Points • Familiarity with lightweight UI design using Python/JavaScript frameworks (Streamlit, ReactJS) and integration with ML model backends. • Hands-on experience with container orchestration services on AWS (e.g., ECS and EKS) and ML deployment on AWS (AWS SageMaker). • Experience with both batch and event-driven application architectures and ML inference methods. Additional Information Top Pharmaceutical Companies, Food Manufacturers, MedTech Companies, and Service Firms from around the globe rely on Redica Systems to mine and process government inspection, enforcement, and registration data. This enables them to quantify risk signals from their suppliers, identify market opportunities, benchmark against peers, and prepare for the latest inspection trends. Our data and analytics have been cited by major media outlets, including MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe.