$100,890–$150,000
AI Engineer
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$111,040–$138,800Boston, MAHybrid
Builds and operates secure, governed enterprise AI platforms, applications, and agentic workflows, including production LLM and retrieval-based solutions.
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At a glance
Posted base pay
$111K–$139KBelow the median
Median $149K
This job$111K–$139KTypical mid FDE payMiddle 50% of 98 postings$121K–$163KThe work
Builds for teams inside the company
Balance
- Mostly building
- Mixed
- Mostly pre-sales or support
Project stages
- Pre-sales (not covered)
- Proof of concept (not covered)
- Implementation
- Operations
- Coding
- Writes production code
- Builds for
- Internal teams
- Level
- Mid
- Role
- Individual contributor
What they ask for
Experience
Background
Tools
Less common in FDE jobs
- Company stage: Subsidiary3%
- Responsibility level: Mid5%
- Who you build for: Internal teams14%
- Company size: About 1,001–5,000 people17%
Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.
What you’ll do
- Design and operate enterprise AI platforms, services, integrations, and governance capabilities.
- Build and deploy secure AI applications, copilots, agent workflows, and RAG solutions.
- Implement identity, access, auditing, data protection, and compliance controls.
- Establish evaluation, monitoring, testing, and production reliability practices.
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor's degree and 2+ years building and operating production software platforms or Azure/AWS cloud solutions, including 2+ years supporting production LLM applications.
- Strong software engineering and cloud skills, including Python, CI/CD, containers, Terraform, version control, observability, and secure deployment.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise AI application delivery, prompt engineering, tool calling, evaluation, and agentic workflows.
- Demonstrated experience implementing RAG, including ingestion, embeddings, vector search, re-ranking, grounding, and output evaluation.
About Foundation Medicine
Develops cancer genomic profiling tests and related data and research services to inform treatment and drug development.
Acquired · 1000–2000 people
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