Staff Software Engineer - AI Applications

Responsibilities

• Build across the stack: design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs, as well as intuitive, high-quality frontend applications.
• Work with AI engineers, software engineers, and machine learning engineers to architect, design, and implement GenAI-powered products and features.
• Collaborate across functions to understand user needs and propose/implement AI-powered solutions with highest impact.
• Design and execute rapid experiments to push boundaries on business impact from emerging AI capabilities, focusing on minimal viable testing.
• Balance creative exploration with rigorous evaluation of technical feasibility, product potential, and business impact.

Requirements

• Experience building backend services and working with microservices or service-oriented architectures.
• Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frontend frameworks or libraries.
• Hands-on experience working with LLMs to build and ship products, iterating with real user feedback, including:
  • Prompt engineering
  • Fine-tuning
  • Retrieval augmented generation (RAG)
  • Semantic search - vector database and embedding models
  • Agent orchestration frameworks
  • Evaluation and monitoring frameworks for open-ended tasks
  • Streaming and SSE
  • Common UX and design patterns for GenAI-powered products
• Strong debugging and monitoring experience for production systems.
• Ability to deeply understand customer/user needs through user research and rapid experimentation.
• Ability to balance divergent and convergent thinking for 0→1 projects.
• Extremely curious and passionate about GenAI applications.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience training/serving ML models in production, or fine-tuning LLMs for domain-specific use cases.
• Comfortable operating in privacy/PII-sensitive environments with compliance mitigations.