Senior Applied AI Engineer
$190,000–$265,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Architect and ship customer-facing AI experiences, from agent orchestration and tool use to the interfaces and backend systems that support them. Develop agent loops that reason over complex context, call tools, recover from failures, and complete long-running tasks. Define evals, build feedback loops, analyze failures, and systematically optimize prompts, context, models, tools, and product flows. Make thoughtful decisions about architecture, latency, cost, observability, and user experience to operate AI systems reliably at scale. Lead product direction and engineering approaches across the full stack, mentoring teammates and driving technical excellence. Own projects from early experimentation through production, shaping the AI experiences behind Mintlify's docs platform for 100 million+ developers.
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", "thrive when defining solutions rather than following a spec", "strong product intuition and care about the 'why' a...
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