This is a contractor job.
Variacode will serve as your employee as a staffing agency, and you will be directly assigned to an external client.

Only LATAM Candidates

Our client platform is revolutionizing the promotional products industry. It empowers branded merch distributors to work smarter — managing projects, building quotes, placing orders, and collaborating with clients and suppliers seamlessly through the power of the Connected Workflow.

We’re a remote-first, community-driven team obsessed with elevating our customers and the broader industry. Our values – Community First, Ten Steps Ahead, Fast Forward, and Delightful Work – guide us. We believe you can innovate, push forward, and do more, while also sharing a laugh, supporting your colleagues, and having a life outside of work.

If you’re energized by ambitious work, creative collaboration, and helping to build something great, you’ll want to keep reading.

🚀 About the Role: Senior AI/ML Engineer

We’re growing — and we’re hiring our first AI/ML Engineer to join our Engineering team! In this role, you’ll help us develop AI-powered features and infrastructure within our platform that enhance how our customers search, analyze, and act on their data, with the goal of supercharging their workflow and making their work more delightful.

You’ll collaborate closely with teammates across Engineering, Product, and Design, elevate the AI knowledge of the entire Engineering team, contribute to a high-trust environment, and play a direct role in shaping the future of the industry.

💡 About You

You’re not just looking for a job — you’re looking for a place to do your best work. You bring:

A community mindset — You see customers as partners and coworkers as collaborators. You lift others up, always follow through on your commitments, and thrive in a team that does the same. (Community First)
Momentum and ownership — You act with optimism, take initiative, and turn ideas into results. You move fast and bring others with you. (Fast Forward)
Vision and boldness — You don’t just react — you anticipate. You think big, challenge the status quo, and push the work (and the industry) forward. (Ten Steps Ahead)
Joy in the craft — You care deeply about what you build and how it makes people feel. You bring thoughtfulness, transparency, and a sparkling sense of humor to the table. (Delightful Work)

🛠️ What You’ll Do

Here’s what you’ll do:

Design, implement, and ship AI features that power intelligent recommendations, predictive analytics, and agent-assisted workflows.
Collaborate with a team that includes engineers, Product Manager, and Engineering Manager to build proof of concepts to validate ideas.
Evaluate third-party AI tools, models, and platforms (e.g., OpenAI, Hugging Face, Claude) to identify the best-fit solutions for our needs.
Once ideas are validated, lead architecture and integration of AI systems into the platform in ways that are scalable, performant, and maintainable.
Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and model strong development practices.
Mentor other engineers by sharing ML/AI expertise through pairing, feedback, and technical reviews.
Help define best practices for ML development, testing, observability, and monitoring.
Participate in team ceremonies, design reviews, and technical discussions with clarity and curiosity.
Champion customer impact in technical decision-making — using data and feedback to guide prioritization and tradeoffs.

🔍 What You Bring

Some of the qualities that help you thrive in this role:

5+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 2+ years focused on applied AI/ML development in production systems.
Deep experience with Python, particularly for building and deploying ML/AI-powered applications.
Experience building solutions with modern ML platforms and techniques such as:
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines
- Generative AI applications
Experience working with cloud infrastructure and tooling for ML (e.g., AWS Bedrock, LangChain, Arize, etc.).
Strong understanding of model evaluation, data pipelines, and API design.
Comfort with evaluating tradeoffs between build vs. buy and balancing technical depth with product needs.
Proven ability to mentor others and share knowledge constructively.
Curious, collaborative, and energized by building impactful solutions that customers love.
And familiarity with our core technologies (PHP, React) is a plus!

AI&ML Engineer (Latam)