Senior Applied AI Engineer
Core
Building customer-facing AI experiences and agent systems that solve real problems for developers using a docs platform.
Role type
Senior Applied AI Engineer (Product-minded IC)
Builds
Customer-facing AI agents, agent orchestration systems, and backend infrastructure for tool use and retrieval.
Domain
Developer tools / AI Agents / LLMs
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Full-stack engineering, agent loop design, tool use, retrieval, prompting, structured outputs, system architecture, latency optimization, cost management, observability, product intuition, customer feedback integration, technical mentorship
Preferred skills
Experience with virtual filesystems, collaborative editors, markdown/llms.txt processing
Technologies
LLMs, agent frameworks, APIs, databases, frontend frameworks, backend systems
Responsibilities
Architecting and shipping end-to-end AI products, developing reliable agent loops with reasoning and recovery, defining evaluation metrics and feedback loops, making architecture decisions for scale and cost, shaping product direction and engineering practices
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities