Senior AI Engineer (PR-DS/AI-20250714) (Remote)

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Job Summary:

Celara is a distributed SaaS company that leverages AI for media monitoring and analysis. They are seeking a high-impact Data Scientist to enhance operations and client product delivery by merging advanced data science, LLMs, and product thinking.

Responsibilities:

• Build and deploy LLM-powered tools and workflows that simplify analyst work, reduce errors, and accelerate delivery.

• Understand operational processes and create intelligent, scalable solutions that eliminate complexity and manual effort.

• Partner with product and operations teams to infuse intelligence and automation into client-facing platforms.

• Translate client pain points and product gaps into practical, data-driven AI solutions that enhance experience and outcomes.

• Prototype fast, test early, iterate often. Maintain speed without sacrificing accuracy or quality.

• Work closely with engineering, product, client success, and operations teams to bring ideas to life.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a data scientist or ML engineer, with demonstrated ownership of projects in production, and a minimum of 2 years’ experience with LLM’s.

• Proven experience applying LLMs and generative AI to real-world business problems.

• Strong Linux skills – comfortable navigating and scripting in a CLI-first environment.

• Expert Python skills – you write clean, maintainable, tested, and efficient code.

• Deep experience working with OpenAI models and APIs, including prompt engineering, finetuning and evaluation.

• Fluent in SQL with ability to work efficiently with PostgreSQL datasets.

• Experience using Docker for local and production development.

• Proficiency with LangChain for building multi-step LLM workflows.

• Effective remote communication and collaboration, especially in a distributed team with meetings on US Eastern Time.

• Strong business acumen—able to connect technical solutions to operational and client value.

• Startup-style drive, agility, and hands-on mindset—you ship, not just ideate.

• Creativity and experimentation—willing to try, fail, and improve.

• Exceptional communication skills—can explain complex ideas simply and persuasively.

• Minimum 3–5 years of experience in AI/ML roles, preferably in B2B or SaaS environments.

• Bachelor or Master in Computer Science, Data Science, AI, or related field.

Preferred:

• Experience with AWS cloud services (EC2, S3, etc.)

• Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools.

• Knowledge of media analytics, journalism, or influence measurement.

• Prior work with data labeling, theme detection, or benchmarking model output.

Company:

Celara transforms your vision into reality by building elite near-shore technology teams with CTO-level expertise. Founded in , the company is headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, US, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.