AI Engineer (Applied AI – Node + Flutter Ecosystem)

Black Panda is hiring an AI Engineer to work on a new mobile-first product currently in stealth mode.

This is an applied AI role focused on building and integrating intelligent features into a production-grade system built on Flutter (mobile) and Node.js (backend).

We are not building foundational models or complex RAG systems at this stage.

We are building practical, reliable AI-powered features that work inside real user workflows.

• Building AI-powered chat or assistive flows
• Integrating speech-to-text or transcription services
• Implementing tagging / classification logic
• Designing lightweight AI evaluation mechanisms
• Exposing AI services through Node-based APIs
• Working closely with backend engineers to integrate AI features cleanly
• Ensuring performance, reliability, and responsible output handling

• AI logic may be implemented using Python where appropriate
• AI services will be integrated into a Node.js backend
• Mobile interactions will be delivered through Flutter
• You will collaborate closely with backend and mobile engineers to define clean contracts between AI and application layers

• 23 years of applied AI / ML engineering experience
• Experience building chatbots, assistants, or interactive AI systems
• Experience working with transcription or speech-to-text systems
• Strong Python fundamentals
• Comfort working with Node.js APIs or backend integrations
• Understanding of model limitations and production failure modes
• Clear communication and structured thinking

• Experience deploying AI microservices
• Familiarity with OpenAI or similar APIs
• Experience monitoring AI output quality
• Experience working inside early-stage product teams

• Not deep research
• Not transformer fine-tuning
• Not academic ML
• Not purely experimental AI work

If you:

• Only build AI demos without production deployment
• Treat AI as a black box without testing edge cases
• Prefer working independently without collaborating with backend/mobile teams

This role will not be a fit.