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AI Evaluation Engineer
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Location: Remote (Hybrid opportunity if live in Denver, CO)
Type: Full\-Time
Clearance: Must have US citizenship and pass FBI fingerprint and background check in multiple states
About GovWorx
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GovWorx is helping public safety rise to today's greatest challenge: the loss of experience. Our AI\-powered platform, CommsCoach, supports 9\-1\-1 and emergency communications centers across the country by automating quality assurance, training, and real\-time call evaluation—allowing agencies to strengthen their teams and better serve their communities. or the one you already have.
Position Overview
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We're looking for an experienced AI Evaluation Engineer to help build and improve the next generation of AI systems used by public safety agencies across the country. This role sits at the intersection of AI engineering, prompt engineering, and data science.
You'll own the evaluation and continuous improvement of production AI systems, developing automated evaluation pipelines, designing prompt experiments, analyzing model performance, and building tooling that enables rapid iteration. You'll work closely with data scientists, data engineers, and product managers to ensure our AI systems remain accurate, reliable, and trustworthy in real\-world public safety environments.
Key Responsibilities
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- Design, build, and maintain automated AI evaluation pipelines for production LLM applications
- Develop prompt engineering strategies and iterate on prompts and compare LLMs using quantitative evaluation methods
- Build offline evaluation datasets and regression testing frameworks to measure AI performance over time
- Analyze production AI behavior using Python, SQL, and statistical techniques to identify opportunities for improvement
- Design experiments, A/B tests, and benchmarking methodologies for evaluating prompt and model changes
- Develop dashboards and reporting that communicate AI quality, reliability, and performance metrics
- Partner with engineering and product teams to safely deploy and monitor improvements to production AI systems
- Investigate model failures through detailed error analysis and recommend improvements to prompts, evaluation datasets, and workflows
- Help establish best practices for Responsible AI, evaluation methodologies, and continuous model improvement
Qualifications
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### Must\-Haves
- Must have US citizenship and pass FBI fingerprint and background check in multiple states
- 3\+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning, data science, or a related technical field
- Experience designing evaluation metrics and interpreting AI model performance
- Understanding of statistical methods including hypothesis testing and experiment design
- Strong Python development experience
- Strong SQL skills with experience analyzing large datasets
- Experience building or supporting production LLM or Generative AI applications
- Experience with prompt engineering and systematic prompt evaluation
### Nice to Have
- Experience using AI evaluation or observability platforms such as Langfuse, LangSmith, MLflow, or Label Studio
- Experience with AWS services such as Bedrock, Lambda, S3, Glue, or SageMaker
- Experience building dashboards using Tableau, Sisense, Power BI, or similar tools
- Knowledge of Responsible AI principles and evaluation methodologies
Why Join GovWorx?
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- Help build AI systems that directly support first responders and emergency communications professionals
- Own AI quality, evaluation, and continuous improvement for production applications
- Work on cutting\-edge LLM technologies and help shape the future of Responsible AI
- Collaborate with a high\-performing team across AI, engineering, product, and data science
- Solve technically challenging problems with real\-world impact on public safety
- Influence AI strategy and evaluation practices across a growing technology company
Compensation Range: $120K \- $170K
Salary Context
This $120K-$170K range is below the median for AI/ML Engineer roles in our dataset (median: $180K across 1841 roles with salary data).
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About This Role
AI/ML Engineers build and deploy machine learning models in production. They work across the full ML lifecycle: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure. The role has evolved significantly over the past two years. Where ML Engineers once spent most of their time on model architecture, the job now tilts heavily toward inference optimization, cost management, and integrating LLM capabilities into existing systems. Companies want engineers who can ship production systems, and the experimenter-only role is fading fast.
Day-to-day, you're writing training pipelines, debugging data quality issues, setting up evaluation frameworks, and figuring out why your model performs differently in staging than it did on your dev set. The best ML engineers are obsessive about reproducibility and measurement. They instrument everything. They know that a model is only as good as the data feeding it and the infrastructure serving it.
Across the 3,708 AI roles we're tracking, AI/ML Engineer positions make up 70% of the market. At GovWorx, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
What the Work Looks Like
A typical week might include: debugging a data pipeline that's silently dropping 3% of training examples, running A/B tests on a new model version, writing documentation for a feature flag system that lets you roll back model deployments, and reviewing a junior engineer's PR for a new evaluation metric. Meetings tend to be cross-functional since ML touches product, engineering, and data teams.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
Skills Required
Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.
Beyond the core stack, employers increasingly want experience with experiment tracking tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases), feature stores, and vector databases. Fine-tuning experience is valuable but less common than you'd think from reading Twitter. Most production LLM work is RAG and prompt engineering, not fine-tuning. If you have both, you're in a strong position.
Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
Compensation Benchmarks
AI/ML Engineer roles pay a median of $218,750 based on 3,817 positions with disclosed compensation. Mid-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $200,000. This role's midpoint ($145K) sits 34% below the category median. Disclosed range: $120K to $170K.
Across all AI roles, the market median is $217,500. Top-quartile compensation starts at $272,100. The 90th percentile reaches $325,000. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Safety ($300,000) and Research Engineer ($280,000). By seniority level: Entry: $120,000; Mid: $200,000; Senior: $230,000; Director: $272,150; VP: $250,000.
GovWorx AI Hiring
GovWorx has 1 open AI role right now. They're hiring across AI/ML Engineer. Based in US. Compensation range: $170K - $170K.
Location Context
AI roles in Austin pay a median of $214,343 across 87 tracked positions.
Career Path
Common paths into AI/ML Engineer roles include Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Research Engineer.
From here, career progression typically leads toward ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer.
The fastest path into ML engineering is through software engineering with a self-directed ML education. A CS degree helps, but production engineering skills matter more than academic credentials. Build something that works, deploy it, and measure it. That portfolio project is worth more than a Coursera certificate. For career growth, the fork comes around the senior level: go deep on technical complexity (staff/principal track) or move into managing ML teams.
What to Expect in Interviews
Expect system design questions around ML pipelines: how you'd build a training pipeline for a specific use case, handle data drift, or design A/B testing infrastructure for model deployments. Coding rounds typically involve Python, with emphasis on data manipulation (pandas, numpy) and algorithm implementation. Take-home assignments often ask you to build an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw data to deployed model.
When evaluating opportunities: Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
AI Hiring Overview
The AI job market has 3,708 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 102 entry-level, 1,705 mid-level, 1,469 senior, and 432 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 14% of the market (508 positions). The remaining 3,180 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.
The market median for AI roles is $217,500. Top-quartile compensation starts at $272,100. The 90th percentile reaches $325,000. Highest-paying categories: AI Safety ($300,000 median, 21 roles); Research Engineer ($280,000 median, 147 roles); AI Architect ($254,798 median, 67 roles).
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
The AI Job Market Today
The AI job market spans 3,708 open positions across 16 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (2,605), Data Scientist (310), AI Software Engineer (259). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.
The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (102) are outnumbered by mid-level (1,705) and senior (1,469) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 432 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.
Remote work availability sits at 14% of all AI roles (508 positions), with 3,180 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.
AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $217,500. Top-quartile roles start at $272,100, and the 90th percentile reaches $325,000. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.
Category matters for compensation. AI Safety roles lead at $300,000 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $140,000. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.
The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Python (1,890 postings), Aws (1,103 postings), Azure (877 postings), Rag (855 postings), Gcp (631 postings), Prompt Engineering (560 postings), Pytorch (545 postings), Claude (498 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.
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