About you

You are an engineer passionate about building reliable, observable, and secure AI systems at scale. You enjoy working at the intersection of product metrics, evaluation frameworks, and production-grade infrastructure. You are comfortable translating abstract KPIs into measurable signals, designing deployment safeguards, and ensuring AI systems behave safely, efficiently, and consistently in real-world environments.

You thrive in fast-paced, cloud-native environments, value automation and rigor, and enjoy collaborating with product, engineering, and AI teams to continuously improve system quality.

You bring to Applaudo the following competencies:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field — or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong experience with AI/ML evaluation, including metric definition, evaluation pipelines, golden datasets, and automated judge systems.
• Proficiency in observability and monitoring, including structured logging, tracing, and OpenTelemetry.
• Solid background in CI/CD automation and modern deployment strategies (canary, blue-green, gated deployments).
• Knowledge of AI safety practices, including PII scrubbing, deterministic guardrails, and secure handling of model inputs and outputs.
• Experience working with multi-agent systems and translating product KPIs into measurable agent performance metrics.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, including CDK, ECS/ECR, WAF, SES, Bedrock, CloudWatch, and DevOps Guru.
• Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native tooling.
• Familiarity with Azure for identity management and basic exposure to GCP environments.
• Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate across product, platform, and AI teams.
• English proficiency required for collaboration with global stakeholders.

You will be accountable for the following responsibilities:

• Translate product KPIs into measurable agent and system-level metrics for effectiveness, efficiency, robustness, and safety.
• Design and implement end-to-end observability using structured logging, metrics, and tracing with OpenTelemetry.
• Curate and maintain golden datasets and manage judge systems for scalable, repeatable AI evaluation.
• Implement evaluation-gated deployments within CI/CD pipelines.
• Orchestrate pre-merge and post-merge validation workflows to ensure quality before release.
• Apply canary and blue-green deployment strategies, enabling fast and safe rollbacks.
• Enforce layered security controls, including PII scrubbing, deterministic guardrails, and AI-based filtering of inputs and outputs.
• Monitor and analyze latency, error rates, token usage, and cost metrics across AI systems.
• Track production quality indicators such as correctness, relevance, and helpfulness.
• Convert failures, incidents, and negative feedback into automated regression tests.
• Manage multi-agent interoperability and coordination across AI components.
• Continuously update and adapt guardrails and safety controls as new risks and threats emerge.

About Us

At Applaudo, we partner with ambitious companies to transform through technology with an AI-native mindset at the core of how we think, build, and deliver. We combine strategic clarity, world-class execution, and modern engineering practices to help clients accelerate measurable business outcomes and stay competitive.

We are building a high-performance culture grounded in five values: Empowering Excellence, Collaborative Teamwork, Unsolicited Respect, Consistent Transparency, and Efficient Communication. These define how we work, how we make decisions, and how we hold ourselves accountable.

Applaudo is a place for people who want to grow fast, take ownership, and work alongside strong teams. Joining us means being part of an organization that is evolving intentionally, investing in modern ways of working, and embracing AI as a lever for productivity, innovation, and impact.