Applied AI Engineer

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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

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 Verified - from the job posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Mid Verified - from the job posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Onsite Inferred - source not recordedchecked Jun 20, 2026

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5 days Inferred - source not recordedchecked Jun 20, 2026

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Series A Verified - from the job posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Applied AI Engineer SF Headquarters | OnSite ABOUT US We're building the AI infrastructure powering the future of financial operations - starting with automating the most painful and complex workflows in loan servicing. - Backed by a16z and Y Combinator, with $65M raised in Series A funding. - 8-figure ARR 20% of the auto lending industry, and processing millions of real customer calls and transactions daily. - Fully deployed with major financial institutions - not just PoCs. - We are expanding into new financial services segments! - In-person office culture in San Francisco, CA. We're fully integrated with our customers, own the full stack, and are moving fast to bring modern AI into regulated industries where precision, reliability, and performance matter most. ABOUT THE ROLE We're looking for a Member of Technical Staff to help build the speech and language models behind Salient's production voice agents. You'll work on challenging problems in speech and language modeling. Many of these problems look solved in academic benchmarks, but remain deeply unsolved in real-world production. This is a high-ownership role on a small, elite team. You'll own core parts of the system end to end, and everything you do will have direct revenue impact. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build and improve production speech models and systems with the ultimate goal of improving real-time conversational quality. - Post-train LLMs for voice agents used for consumer finance. - Develop evals, harnesses, and monitoring systems. - Work across models, data, infrastructure, and product to improve end-to-end

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