Senior AI Engineer, Location AI
Core
Design, build, and evaluate multi-component AI systems for real-time location, navigation, and agent orchestration across Mapbox's platform.
Role type
Senior AI Engineer (Location AI)
Builds
Real-time location platform features, navigation intelligence, and agent-based tools for people, packages, and vehicles.
Domain
Geospatial technology, AI/ML, and real-time data systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
LLM feature shipping, non-deterministic system evaluation, data engineering (SQL, distributed processing), tool calling and agent orchestration, Python/TypeScript, latency optimization in distributed systems
Preferred skills
Geospatial data (routing, geocoding, POI), MCP experience, automotive/infotainment, voice pipelines (ASR/TTS), CI evals
Technologies
Python, TypeScript, SQL, distributed processing frameworks, MCP, OpenStreetMap
Responsibilities
Define product measurement frameworks and evaluation systems for non-deterministic behavior; build data pipelines for ingestion and entity resolution; design feedback loops to improve models from usage data; optimize latency and cost per request; build internal harnesses and CLI tools; conduct code and design reviews to raise team standards; participate in on-call rotation for system availability
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC