AI Engineer, VDC

Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands. As an AI Engineer on the Veeam Data Cloud Intelligence team, you'll design and manage innovative systems that enable Veeam's customers to extract meaningful insights from their enterprise data, securely stored within the VDC. We’re building production systems that help to discover and understand data so as to make organizations more resilient. You’ll be asked to investigate best practices, rapidly iterate on prototypes, and then productize your work so as to have a clear impact across multiple Veeam services. Why this role is unique: Greenfield Opportunity: Many of our workflows, including secure semantic discovery at scale, are industry firsts. You’ll help invent and define them. The Data is Real—and Huge: You'll work with exabyte-scale backup data from some of the world’s largest enterprises. It’s heterogeneous, richly structured, multilingual, and full of opportunities for insight. Production AI, Not Just Models: You’ll be building end-to-end, customer-facing capabilities—not just research prototypes. These systems will be measured in uptime, relevance, and ROI. Your tasks will include: Build and operate AI-powered services that summarize document content, extract keywords, and generate vector embeddings from backed-up data using cutting-edge services Design secure interfaces for AI agents to query backup data via Model Context Protocol (MCP), enforcing tenant-aware RBAC and query constraints Own and optimize prompt engineering and evaluation workflows for our LLM-based assistant, Veeam Intelligence Help define and improve our AI quality benchmarks—whether for retrieval relevance, summarization accuracy, or agent response reliability Collaborate across the stack and across the VDC engineering organization to ensure AI workflows are deeply integrated and consistently performant Tune AI workflows for performance, cost, latency, and observability—especially important when working with billions of documents across global regions What we expect from you: Strong backend engineering skills in Python and modern AI tooling (e.g., OpenAI APIs, LangChain, transformers, Azure ML) Experience working with embeddings, LLMs, or AI-based summarization/extraction pipelines in production environments Experience with prompt engineering and prompt tuning, including strategies to improve output quality, reduce hallucinations, and support structured responses Awareness of jailbreaking techniques and adversarial prompts; ability to think like an attacker to proactively harden LLM-powered workflows Exposure to agent architectures (e.g., Model Context Protocol, Agent to Agent) Security-first mindset—comfortable building systems with RBAC, data boundary enforcement, and operational safeguards against misuse Proactive in staying current with industry trends in LLMs, search, and AI infrastructure, and able to synthesize and share relevant developments with the team Practical knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure, preferably in Azure (Event Bus Services, Blob Storage, Kubernetes, CosmosDB, Azure Open AI Service) Strong written and verbal communication (English). Ability to collaborate with team members, flesh out solutions to ambiguous problems, and drive consensus Will be an advantage: Familiarity with prompt evaluation frameworks or LLM observability tooling. Experience working with RBAC-enforced, multi-tenant systems. Veeam offers benefits that support your whole self: Unlimited paid time off, plus 3 global VeeaMe Days for self-care Paid parental leave: 8 weeks for all parents, 16 weeks for birthing parents Medical, dental, and vision coverage from day one Mental health support, therapy sessions, and digital wellness tools via SupportLinc EAP 401(k) retirement plan with matching contributions up to annual limits Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support through Maven, plus paid volunteer time AirVet: 24/7 virtual veterinary care at no cost Legal services, identity protection, and supplemental health insurance options Tax-advantaged spending accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and commuting Professional training and education, including courses and workshops, internal meetups, and unlimited access to our online learning platforms (LinkedIn Learning, Athena, O’Reilly) and mentoring through our MentorLab program Please Note: If the applicant is permanently located outside of the United States Veeam reserves the right to decline the application for the position. Remote work is only possible for employees located in the United States.L #LI-IU1 #LI-REMOTE I-Remote #LI-K The salary range posted is On Target Earnings (OTE), which is inclusive of base and variable pay. When making an offer of employment, Veeam will take into consideration the candidate’s expectations, experience, education, scope of responsibility for the role, and the current market demands. United States of America Pay Range $172,400—$320,100 USD Veeam Software is an equal opportunity employer and does not tolerate discrimination in any form on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law. All your information will be kept confidential. Please note that any personal data collected from you during the recruitment process will be processed in accordance with our Recruiting Privacy Notice. 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