Sr. AI Engineer

About SiTime

SiTime is the precision timing company. Timing is the heartbeat of all electronics ensuring performance resilience and scalability. Our semiconductor MEMS programmable solutions offer a rich feature set that enables customers to differentiate their products with higher performance smaller size lower power and better reliability. SiTime is changing the timing industry. For more information visit .

Job Summary

SiTime is seeking a hands-on Sr. AI Engineer to design build deploy and operate production-grade AI applications and agents across the enterprise. This role will translate high-value business problems into secure scalable solutions that connect large language models with SiTime data knowledge and core systems. The engineer will work across the full solution lifecycle from rapid prototyping through evaluation deployment monitoring and continuous improvement with a strong focus on measurable business value responsible AI and reusable engineering patterns. It is not necessary to meet all job requirements to be a qualified candidate for the position.

Responsibilities

Build production AI applications. Design and implement LLM-powered applications and agentic workflows that move from prototype to reliable production use.

Develop enterprise agents and AI solutions securely to business systems data platforms APIs knowledge bases and workflow tools using approved integration patterns.

Implement retrieval and knowledge retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines including ingestion chunking indexing metadata access controls retrieval and grounding.

Engineer for quality and evaluation datasets and automated tests for accuracy completeness safety latency reliability and cost; add human review where appropriate.

Own deployment and CI/CD observability prompt and model versioning incident response and ongoing performance and cost monitoring for AI services.

Build reusable platform shared services and patterns for model access orchestration secure connectors memory tool use auditability and policy enforcement.

Apply responsible AI and security confidential information and intellectual property through least privilege access data handling controls logging red-teaming and adherence to SiTime policies.

Partner with business and technology with product owners business functions Business Applications Data Security and IT to define outcomes prioritize use cases and deliver solutions that fit existing workflows.

Measure business adoption and outcome metrics quantify time quality or cycle-time improvements and iterate based on evidence.

Advance engineering practices. Conduct design and code reviews document architectures and runbooks mentor engineers and stay current on models frameworks and enterprise AI patterns.

Qualifications & Requirements

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Data Science or a related field; a masters degree is preferred.

7 years of software engineering experience including 3 years building AI/ML or generative AI solutions.

Demonstrated experience shipping LLM-based applications or agents to production not only prototypes.

Strong Python skills and experience building production services APIs and distributed or cloud-native applications.

Working knowledge of LLM application patterns including prompting RAG tool/function calling structured outputs agent orchestration and model evaluation.

Experience with vector search embeddings document processing data pipelines and enterprise knowledge retrieval.

Experience with cloud AI services and modern engineering practices including containers CI/CD infrastructure automation testing monitoring and source control.

Understanding of identity authorization secrets management data privacy secure API design and responsible AI controls.

Ability to integrate with enterprise platforms such as ERP CRM collaboration ticketing and data systems.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate business needs into technical designs and explain trade-offs clearly.

English proficiency is required including the ability to effectively communicate collaborate and perform job responsibilities in a professional business environment.

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience with the Microsoft AI ecosystem such as Azure AI Foundry Azure OpenAI Microsoft 365 Copilot Github Copilot Copilot Studio Microsoft Graph and Power Platform.

Experience with one or more orchestration frameworks and model providers while maintaining provider-independent architecture where practical.

Experience building governed enterprise agent marketplaces reusable agent components or model gateways.

Experience with MLOps/LLMOps automated evaluation red-teaming tracing and AI cost management.

Experience applying AI to enterprise workflows in Sales Finance Operations HR Engineering or Customer Support.

Semiconductor electronics or manufacturing industry experience.

Desired Characteristics & Attributes

Hands-on builder. Comfortable working across architecture code integrations evaluation deployment and operations.

Business-first with the problem and expected outcome then selects the simplest effective technology.

Pragmatic and quickly ships iteratively and owns reliability and value after launch.

Security- and data protection responsible AI testing and observability as core engineering requirements.

Collaborative trust with technical and non-technical partners and works effectively across functions.

Curious and adaptable. Keeps pace with a rapidly changing field without chasing technology that lacks a clear use case.

Compensation Range (For HR only)

At SiTime we believe great work deserves great rewards. We offer a comprehensive and highly competitive compensation package designed to attract top talent.

The annual base salary range for this role is $124920 - $171770. The final offer is determined by factors such as location experience education and training.

In addition to base salary this role is eligible for a quarterly bonus tied to the achievement of innovation goals reflecting our commitment to recognizing meaningful impact. We also offer equity grants providing a meaningful opportunity to share in the companys future growth and success.

Benefits offered: 401(k) plan; medical dental vision and life insurance; parental leave; legal services; and time-off plans.

Equal Opportunity Employer

SiTime is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We treat each person fairly and do not tolerate discrimination or harassment on the basis of any protected characteristic including race color religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability pregnancy political affiliation protected veteran status protected genetic information marital status or other characteristics protected by law. SiTime participates in the E-Verify program.

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