Senior Staff Engineer (LLM)
Core
Build and ship LLM-powered features in a complex, production application used at scale, spanning backend services, APIs, and LLM systems (retrieval, agents, evaluation).
Role type
Senior Staff Engineer (LLM)
Builds
LLM-powered features, backend services, APIs, and LLM systems for a complex production application.
Domain
Generative AI, Large Language Models, Backend Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python, FastAPI, LLM Application Frameworks, Vector Databases and Embeddings, RAG system design, multi-agent systems, server-side events, event-driven architectures, MCP servers, prompt engineering, LLM model APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic), AI-assisted coding tools, agentic coding tools, autonomous coding agents, security best practices for backend systems, debugging complex backend systems, systems-level thinking.
Preferred skills
LLM guardrails, LLM monitoring and observability, LLM evaluation harnesses, LLM-as-judge, offline/online quality metrics.
Technologies
FastAPI, OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, LlamaIndex, vector databases, MCP servers, Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot.
Responsibilities
Write and refactor code using AI-assisted and agentic coding tools, build REST APIs, design and implement RAG systems end to end, develop and deploy generative solutions to production at scale, collaborate with Product Owners and stakeholders to solve complex problems, take full ownership of features and projects.
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC
