Sr. Applied AI/ML Scientist
Core
Build and ship production LLM-powered features, agentic workflows, and semantic search infrastructure for real-time news intelligence and predictive analytics.
Role type
Senior Applied AI/ML Scientist (LLM Systems & Agentic Workflows)
Builds
Ambient and interactive agentic workflows, LLM-powered content enrichments, retrieval systems, and semantic search infrastructure for journalists and PR leaders.
Domain
Media intelligence, news processing, and real-time data analytics
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
LLM system architecture, agentic workflow design, embedding models, vector databases, prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, LLMOps, Python backend engineering, technical leadership
Preferred skills
Experience with OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, open-weight models, hybrid search, re-ranking, MCP-compatible services, function-calling patterns
Technologies
Python, Langfuse, Datadog, ChromaDB, Pinecone, Weaviate, OpenAI, Anthropic
Responsibilities
Architect and deliver production agentic workflows (ambient and interactive), define structured prompting standards and output schemas, set evaluation frameworks and guardrails for hallucination reduction, evolve embedding and semantic search infrastructure, lead technical design discussions and mentor engineers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with technical leadership (via careerplan.io/jobs/7861888-sr-applied-aiml-scientist-at-sprout-social-inc)
