About MetaCTO
MetaCTO builds mobile apps, web platforms, and AI-powered systems for startups and growing companies across industries like health, fitness, education, and eCommerce. Our engineering teams work across a wide range of products and technical challenges, from greenfield native builds to complex AI integrations. We’re an AI-first shop. AI tools shape how we work every day, and increasingly, AI capabilities are what our clients are asking us to build into their products.
Job Overview
We’re looking for an experienced AI Engineer to own the design and delivery of production AI systems across our client engagements. You’ll transform foundation models into structured, reliable workflows embedded directly into the mobile and web products our clients depend on.
This is a hands-on technical role focused on context engineering and agentic system design. You’ll lead deep technical engagements, partnering with client engineering teams to architect and ship AI-powered features: semantic search, intelligent assistants, content generation, personalized recommendations, and autonomous workflows. You’ll make the critical decisions about model selection, context architecture, retrieval strategies, and evaluation infrastructure.
We’re looking for someone who has shipped applied AI systems to production and wants to define what that looks like across a diverse portfolio of client products.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end architecture and delivery of agentic AI systems across client engagements, from context engineering and model selection through production deployment and ongoing reliability
- Design and implement context pipelines, including RAG, retrieval strategies, embeddings, and MCP-based tool integration, that ground AI systems in real-world data and keep them accurate over time
- Lead model routing and orchestration decisions across providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source), balancing quality, cost, and latency based on each product’s requirements
- Build rigorous evaluation and observability infrastructure so AI systems are measurable, debuggable, and continuously improving in production
- Partner directly with client engineering and product teams to scope AI capabilities, advise on architecture, and drive implementation alongside their teams
- Identify patterns across engagements and contribute reusable approaches, tooling, and best practices back to MetaCTO’s broader engineering organization
Requirements
- 4+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years building and shipping AI-powered features in production
- Production experience with agentic systems, including multi-step workflows, tool calling, planning, and error recovery
- Strong context engineering skills: RAG pipeline design, retrieval optimization, prompt engineering, and grounding AI outputs in structured knowledge
- Experience working across multiple LLM providers with informed tradeoffs on model selection and routing
- Proficiency in Python for AI/ML work and TypeScript or Node.js for backend services and API development
- Experience building evaluation frameworks and monitoring infrastructure for AI systems in production
- Daily proficiency with AI development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot)
- Strong communication skills with experience advising technical and non-technical stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with MCP-based tool integration and agentic frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, or similar)
- Background in fine-tuning or adapting models for domain-specific tasks
- MLOps experience: model versioning, deployment pipelines, A/B testing, and monitoring at scale
- Familiarity with transforming unstructured data into AI-ready assets (embeddings, structured schemas, RAG indices)
- Previous consulting or agency experience across diverse client industries
Position Details
- Type: Full-Time
- Location: 100% Remote (US time zones preferred for client collaboration)
- Base Salary Range: $140,000 - $180,000
Benefits
At MetaCTO, we believe that great work starts with a great workplace. We offer a competitive total rewards package that supports your well-being, growth, and financial security.
Our benefits include:
- 100% remote work with flexibility to manage your schedule
- Unlimited paid vacation to recharge and maintain work-life balance
- 401(k) plan with a 400% company match on the first 6% deferred
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options
- Group term life insurance, plus additional coverage options