# Senior Applied AI Engineer

**Company:** [Mintlify](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mintlify)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $190k – $265k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Language Models, AI Agents, Agent Orchestration, Tool Use, Retrieval, Prompt Engineering, Structured Outputs, Frontend Development, Backend Development, APIs, Databases, Infrastructure, Observability, Evaluation Systems
**Posted:** 2026-08-17

> Build and lead production AI products, including agent systems that use tools, retrieve context, and complete complex tasks reliably. The role requires strong full-stack engineering, deep language-model experience, product judgment, and ownership from experimentation through production.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Architect and ship customer-facing AI experiences, including agent orchestration, tool use, user interfaces, and backend systems.
- Develop reliable agent loops that reason over complex context, call tools, recover from failures, and complete long-running tasks.
- Define evaluations, build feedback loops, analyze failures, and systematically improve prompts, context, models, tools, and product flows.
- Turn prototypes into reliable production systems by making decisions about architecture, latency, cost, observability, and user experience.
- Shape product direction and engineering approaches across the stack.
- Own complex AI products from experimentation through production.
- Talk directly with customers and use their insights to shape products.
- Mentor engineers, share technical knowledge, and help teammates grow.

## Requirements
- 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.
- Experience owning production software across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
- Experience leading complex projects from experimentation through production.
- Strong product intuition and interest in building user-facing software.

## Benefits and Compensation
- Competitive compensation and equity.
- 20 days of paid time off annually.
- 401(k) or RRSP.
- $420/month wellness stipend.
- 100% coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Free rides to and from work.
- Free lunch and dinner.
- Annual team offsite.

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