Applied AI Engineer
$130,000–$200,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United StatesOn-siteFull Time$130,000–$200,000 yearTechnologySmall
Full TimeSmallTechnology
Job Summary
Design and ship customer-facing AI experiences, from agent orchestration and tool use to backend interfaces and data pipelines. Build reliable agent loops that reason over complex context, call tools, recover from failures, and complete long-running tasks. Create evaluations to analyze failures and optimize prompts, models, and product flows. Own production software across frontend, backend, APIs, and infrastructure to turn prototypes into polished products. Lead complex projects from experimentation through production while mentoring teammates and driving strategic decisions.
Required Qualifications
- at least 4 years of professional software development experience
- deep experience building production systems with language models, including agent loops, tool use, retrieval, prompting, and structured outputs
- comfortable owning production software across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure
- led complex projects from experimentation through production
- strong product intuition
- experience mentoring other engineers, sharing technical knowledge, and helping teammates grow
Desired Qualifications
- care about the 'why' as much as the 'how' when building user-facing software
- eager to talk directly with customers and use those insights to shape what we build
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