Position Name: Senior AI Engineer
Location: Remote
Employment Type: Full-time
Notes: Direct Hire. No third-party assistance is approved for this role.

About The Job:

At Jaxon, we’re focused on making AI trustworthy for mission-critical environments. Our core technology is built to enable the safe deployment of AI in high-stakes settings, particularly across the Department of Defense. DSAIL converts human policy, procedures, and doctrine into executable guardrails that constrain and verify LLM outputs.

As a Senior AI Engineer, you’ll be a core member of the platform team, building the full stack of systems that power Jaxon’s Domain-Specific AI Language (DSAIL) — from reasoning engines and orchestration layers to developer tooling, user interfaces, and fieldable customer deployments. Your work will focus on orchestrating LLM-driven workflows, designing and deploying reasoning agents, and hardening the reliability and traceability of AI behavior in defense-grade applications.

Core Responsibilities:

• Design and Implement Agentic Systems: Develop multi-agent reasoning workflows using frameworks like LangGraph or custom orchestration layers. Integrate DSAIL evaluators into live inference pipelines.

• Bridge Symbolic and Neural Logic: Implement AI components that connect LLM outputs to symbolic verifiers (e.g., SMT solvers) for auditable reasoning.

• Engineer End-to-End Systems: Build across the full stack — backend services, orchestration layers, internal tooling, and user interfaces — to deliver complete, production-ready AI applications, not just model endpoints.

• Develop Real-World Use Cases: Prototype, demo, and iterate on customer pilots that showcase DSAIL-powered verification in defense and enterprise settings. Collaborate with stakeholders to transform proofs-of-concept into deployable solutions.

• Build Reliable, Composable Infrastructure: Deploy containerized AI services (Docker, Compose, K8s) with strict observability and reproducibility.

• Improve Performance and Traceability: Profile latency, caching, retrieval accuracy, and reasoning reliability across hybrid neural-symbolic stacks.

Specific Technologies:

• Python (duh)

• Agentic orchestration libraries such as Langraph, AgentKit, SonnetSDK, etc. Custom tools, RAG, and other agentic helpers are not new shiny objects for you; they’re basic building blocks.

• Docker, Docker Compose, K8s, and related container orchestration technologies.

• Hands-on experience running local LLMs using technologies such as Ollama and Transformers.

• Have a comfort level building and training and/or fine-tuning models with techs like Torch or Tensorflow, not just calling cloud APIs (but you’re resourceful enough to recognize when you can get away with using cloud APIs).

• Aren’t afraid of digesting academic papers, but when it comes to your own work you understand that it’s building things that matters.

• Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and other AI coding helpers - you know how to use them in anger, and not vibe your way into spaghetti.

Nice-To-Haves:

• Previous experience with consulting on Defense projects involving software development, data science support, especially at service labs or joint commands.

About Jaxon: Jaxon is on a mission to make AI trustworthy. Developed through R&D with the U.S. Department of Defense, Jaxon converts complex rule sets—whether from policy manuals, onboarding playbooks, compliance protocols, or SME conversations—into executable logic. It extracts the key ‘questions’ hidden in unstructured docs, builds rule-driven evaluators, and tracks what’s being asked and why. The result: consistent, auditable, and provable reasoning—bringing structure, oversight, and trust to LLM-driven workflows.

What Makes Jaxon Different?

• Human First: Our leaders get it — life happens. Whether it’s flexible working hours or understanding the need for a mental health day, we prioritize your well-being. Our CEO recognizes that happy people do the best work and he backs that up with an empathetically led culture – and I’m not just saying that because he’s going to read this post.

• Laid-Back Culture: We know that the best work comes from a place of comfort and authenticity. At Jaxon, you’re encouraged to be yourself, dress casually, and embrace your quirky side. It’s just one of the benefits of being an early-stage, high-growth startup.

• Tech Lover's Dream: From hackathons to tech talks with industry leaders, we fuel our passion for innovation with constant learning and development opportunities.

• Grunt Work to Grand Projects: Every task you tackle, big or small, matters. You think I’m writing job descriptions for fun? Sometimes things need to get done and it’s an all hands on deck situation to get them to the finish line. We're looking for team players who understand that achieving groundbreaking AI innovations sometimes involves rolling up your sleeves to tackle the essential, yet less glamorous tasks.

Added Perks:

• Unlimited PTO: (seriously!)

• Comprehensive benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance + 401k matching

• Competitive Salary: We provide competitive compensation packages commensurate with experience

• Stock Options: All compensation plans include stock options - join now and benefit from future acquisitions

• Holidays Off: ALL federal holidays are paid time off.

About You: You're the type of person who's naturally driven—not necessarily because you built a rocket in your backyard as a kid, but because you have a genuine curiosity about the world of technology. In your spare time, you might find yourself deep-diving into technology subreddits, following the latest industry trends, or exploring which companies are innovating and how. Your passion isn't just about staying informed; it's about thinking how you can take these emerging concepts and scale them up, make them faster, or more impactful. At Jaxon, we're looking for someone who sees a baseline and instinctively wants to build beyond it. If you’re ready to take what exists and make it extraordinary, you’ll fit right in.

We are looking for somebody who thrives in an environment where day-to-day priorities and tasks may rapidly change. The role is not a fit if you value "business as usual".

We value team members who are bold enough to pitch creative ideas, even if they're still rough around the edges or might not make the final cut.

Education and Length of Experience

Applicants should have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar. An MS or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, Mathematics or any related Engineering field is a bonus. Candidates should have a minimum 5 years of experience in similar roles.

Jaxon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.