Senior AI Software Engineer
Latino LegendsSenior AI Software Engineer – AI Labs
Location: Remote – Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Dominican Republic
Engagement: Full-Time Contractor
Compensation: USD $6,000–$9,000/month (based on experience)
Time Zone: Must have 3–4 hours of overlap with CEST
About the Opportunity
Latino Legends is partnering with an innovative retail technology company that powers personalized shopping experiences for some of the world's most recognized fashion, sportswear, and home goods brands. Their platform helps leading retailers deliver highly relevant product recommendations and styling experiences to millions of consumers across e-commerce, email marketing, advertising, social media, and in-store channels.
The company operates at significant scale, influencing the shopping experience of approximately 100 million consumers every month through a combination of advanced machine learning, trend intelligence, and domain expertise.
About AI Labs
In 2026, the company launched a specialized AI innovation division focused on solving complex business challenges that extend beyond traditional product roadmaps. This team works directly with executive stakeholders at enterprise retailers to design and deploy custom AI solutions tailored to highly specific industry problems.
Rather than building generic AI tools, the team develops production-ready systems that combine proprietary data, domain expertise, and advanced AI models to address real-world retail challenges. Engagements are delivered through rapid 90-day development cycles covering discovery, model development, testing, and deployment.
Current initiatives include:
- Advanced Personalization
- Virtual Try-On Experiences
- AI-Powered Retail Analytics
- Agentic AI Workflows
- Enterprise AI Applications
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior AI Software Engineer to join this fast-moving AI Labs team and help build the next generation of AI-powered products and systems.
This is a highly technical, hands-on role that combines software engineering, AI experimentation, product thinking, and rapid prototyping. You'll work directly with senior technical and business leaders to design, build, test, and deploy AI-driven applications that solve meaningful business problems.
The ideal candidate is equally comfortable building customer-facing prototypes and designing scalable backend systems. You'll own projects end-to-end, from concept through production deployment, while contributing to architectural decisions, AI evaluation frameworks, and agent-based workflows.
This position reports directly to the CTO and offers exceptional visibility, autonomy, and influence over how emerging AI technologies are applied in production environments.
Responsibilities
- Build production-grade applications using TypeScript and modern AI development tools
- Develop full-stack prototypes that clearly demonstrate capabilities to internal stakeholders and enterprise customers
- Design, test, and optimize prompts across leading foundation models including OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini
- Implement context engineering strategies that provide AI systems with the right information at the right time
- Design and build agentic workflows and AI-powered automation systems
- Create frameworks for monitoring, testing, and evaluating LLM performance
- Analyze large datasets to identify opportunities for AI-driven solutions
- Architect scalable systems capable of supporting multiple enterprise clients
- Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to rapidly validate ideas and deliver solutions
- Contribute to AI strategy discussions and help guide technical decision-making around model selection, architecture, and deployment
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Minimum 7 years of professional software engineering experience
- Proven experience leading or owning AI/LLM projects from concept through deployment
- Strong full-stack development experience with TypeScript, React, and SQL
- Experience working with modern LLMs and AI APIs, including OpenAI, Claude, and/or Gemini
- Demonstrated experience with prompt engineering, model evaluation, and AI application development
- Experience designing and implementing agent-based systems or AI-driven workflows
- Strong understanding of system architecture, APIs, scalability principles, database design, and open-source ecosystems
- Experience creating structured testing methodologies and performance metrics for AI systems
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- Ability to work independently in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
- Strong judgment regarding when AI outputs can be trusted and when deeper engineering validation is required
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working within high-growth startups or innovation-focused environments
- Experience building LLM testing and evaluation frameworks
- Proficiency with Python, Java, or other languages commonly used for AI development and data processing
- Experience within retail technology, e-commerce, recommendation systems, or personalization platforms
What Success Looks Like
- Delivering AI-powered solutions from concept to production
- Building scalable systems that can support multiple enterprise clients
- Rapidly prototyping new AI capabilities and validating them with stakeholders
- Establishing reliable testing and monitoring practices for LLM-based applications
- Driving technical innovation while maintaining strong engineering fundamentals
If you're excited about building production-grade AI systems, working directly with executive stakeholders, and helping shape the future of enterprise AI applications, we'd love to hear from you.
About Latino Legends
Latino Legends is a recruitment company that connects Latin American talent with remote job opportunities at companies around the world. It operates a candidate portal where applicants can browse roles, apply, and track their applications, and it sources candidates on behalf of client companies for positions such as software engineering, technical project management, finance, and sales/business development.
Interested in this role?
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