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Senior AI Operations (AI Ops) Engineer

Navan INC - Palo Alto, CA

Posted Feb 10, 2026

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Salary
$116K-$258K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
$116,543 U.S. median for this role
Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
+9.8% - Much faster than average

60% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
Seniority
Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
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About this role

Senior AI Operations (AI Ops) Engineer Palo Alto, CA At Navan, we aren't building a single, generic chatbot. We are building a Composable AI Microservice Architecture , a swarm of hundreds of hyper-specialized AI services, each meticulously "programmed" to solve small, focused tasks with high precision. This fleet powers Ava , our AI support engine, and a suite of cutting-edge generative tools for travel and expense management. As a Senior AI Operations (AI Ops) Engineer , you are the architect of the platform that makes this scale possible. You will move beyond traditional MLOps to manage a "factory" of Language Models. Your challenge is one of orchestration and standardization, ensuring that every service in the swarm meets a rigorous bar for quality, reliability, and cost-efficiency. What You'll Do Orchestrate the AI Fleet: Build and own the runtime environment for 100+ specialized AI services. Manage model routing, context versioning, and standardized memory/history stores. High-Density Inference Optimization: Design and implement SageMaker Multi-Model Endpoints (MME) and Inference Components to serve multiple tuned SLMs per GPU, maximizing hardware utilization while minimizing latency. Deterministic Service Excellence: Treat reliability as a layered engineering problem. Build deterministic "shells" around probabilistic LM outputs, prioritizing data-layer validation and strict serialization. Automated Evaluation & Observability: Implement "LLM-as-a-judge" patterns and automated benchmarking to detect semantic drift and hallucinations across the fleet before they impact the user. Standardize the Workflow: Obsess over building reusable patterns and Terraform-based infrastructure that eliminate "snowflake" configurations, allowing us to deploy new specialized AI tasks in minutes.

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