Staff/Senior AI Engineer, AI for Code (m/f/d)
Core
Building production-ready coding agents and agentic workflows that understand codebases, plan multi-step tasks, and execute within real development environments for JetBrains users.
Role type
Staff/Senior AI Engineer (AI for Code)
Builds
Coding agents, agentic workflows, evaluation suites, and feedback loops for developer tools.
Domain
Developer tools / AI for Code / LLMs
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Software engineering fundamentals, LLM-powered product building, model fine-tuning and post-training, evaluation and benchmarking, context engineering, tool use design, trade-off analysis (quality/latency/privacy/cost), ambiguity navigation
Preferred skills
Experience with noisy real-world signals, strong communication, aligning engineering and product decisions
Technologies
LLMs, coding agents, open-weight models, hosted frontier APIs, evaluation frameworks
Responsibilities
Build production-ready coding agents and agentic workflows; Turn model capabilities into product behavior via prompting and fine-tuning; Design and improve the agent loop including tool use and safeguards; Create evaluation suites and quality infrastructure; Build feedback loops from real usage; Work with hosted and self-hosted models; Collaborate with product and engineering teams; Define technical direction for future work
Seniority
Staff/Senior, hands-on IC with strategic influence
