# Senior AI Product Engineer

**Company:** [TruckSmarter](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/trucksmarter)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $195k – $225k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** LLMs, Agentic AI, Generative AI, Machine Learning, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Observability Tools, Testing Frameworks
**Posted:** 2026-05-11

> Builds and architects agentic AI systems and GenAI agents for logistics software, integrating with ML workflows. Owns end-to-end feature delivery, mentors engineers, and shapes technical strategy. Requires 5+ years experience and curiosity in LLMs.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Partner closely with product, design, and leadership to define and evolve the architecture for agentic AI systems that scale across multiple product surfaces.
- Own the design and delivery of complex features end-to-end, balancing tradeoffs between velocity, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
- Lead technical discussions and architectural reviews, ensuring our systems remain robust, extensible, and secure.
- Guide the integration of GenAI agents with traditional ML systems (classification, recommendation, optimization) to create hybrid intelligent workflows.
- Establish engineering best practices around testing, observability, deployment, and performance monitoring for AI-driven features.
- Proactively identify product and infrastructure bottlenecks, propose innovative solutions, and drive them to completion.
- Mentor and coach other engineers, raising the technical bar of the team.
- Stay ahead of emerging AI frameworks and technologies, evaluating and introducing them when they create real product advantage.

## What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of industry experience, including leading projects end-to-end.
- Demonstrated ability to design, build, and ship complex, production-grade systems.
- Extremely curious about **LLMs** and **Agentic AI** architectures.
- Experience in fast-paced, startup environments where you’ve had to wear multiple hats.
- A track record of mentoring engineers and shaping team practices.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (or equivalent practical experience).">

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