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ArcadeArcadeSan Francisco, CA

Senior Applied AI Engineer

Builds advanced AI systems using LLM pipelines, vector search, agent frameworks, and multimodal tools to create intelligent interactive product demos. Requires 5+ years in software/AI engineering and a bachelor's degree.

130k – 265k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEML Engineering

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Work across advanced prompting strategies, retrieval-augmented generation, context orchestration, and dynamic model routing to create intelligent, multimodal experiences.
  • Power interactive demos and other rich media workflows.
  • Collaborate tightly with design and engineering to prototype novel capabilities and own them through to production.

Who You Are / Skills and Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in software engineering and/or AI.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • Experience building and maintaining production systems within AI/LLM contexts.
  • Ability to work with LLM pipelines, vector search, agent frameworks, and/or multimodal tools.
  • Experience optimizing applications to perform at their best.

Nice to Have Skills: Typescript, Next.js, React, experimentation, security.

Compensation

$130k-$265k, plus meaningful equity.

Skills

Llm PipelinesVector SearchAgent FrameworksMultimodal ToolsPrompting StrategiesRetrieval-Augmented GenerationTypeScriptNext.jsReactKubernetes

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