Senior AI Engineer, MapGPT
Core
Design, build, and evaluate multi-component AI systems for Mapbox's Search, Places, and Navigation Intelligence, focusing on LLM-backed features, agent orchestration, and data pipelines.
Role type
Senior AI Engineer (LLM & Agent Systems)
Builds
Production AI systems, data pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and internal tooling (CLI, MCP) for navigation and location services.
Domain
Geospatial technology, AI/ML, and real-time location platforms.
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
LLM feature shipping, agent orchestration, tool calling, data engineering (SQL, distributed processing), Python/TypeScript, non-deterministic system evaluation, latency optimization, model harness design.
Preferred skills
Geospatial data (routing, geocoding, POI), Public API/SDK design, MCP experience, Automotive/In-vehicle systems, Voice pipelines (ASR, TTS), CI evals.
Technologies
Python, TypeScript, SQL, distributed processing frameworks, MCP, OpenStreetMap, ASR, TTS.
Responsibilities
Define product architecture and measurement frameworks for non-deterministic AI; build data pipelines for ingestion and entity resolution; evaluate and adopt external models vs. building custom solutions; optimize latency and cost per request; design feedback loops and internal tooling; conduct code/design reviews and mentor team members.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC