CareerPlan

Staff AI Engineer

New York CityFull-time$250k2026-10-06 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Build and ship production-grade AI products end-to-end, owning everything from problem framing and data pipeline design through to deployment and iteration in live environments for public transportation and city operations.

Role type

Staff AI Engineer (Incubator/Startup team)

Builds

AI-powered products, agentic workflows, intelligent tooling involving data consolidation, predictive modelling, real-time decision-making, and LLM-powered experiences for partner cities.

Domain

Public transportation technology / Urban mobility / AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Full stack application development, AI product ownership, LLMs, predictive modelling, distributed systems, scalable API design, data infrastructure design, cross-functional collaboration, on-site customer collaboration

Preferred skills

Experience in early-stage environments, ambiguity tolerance, proactive idea generation

Technologies

LLMs, predictive modelling frameworks, distributed systems, API frameworks

Responsibilities

Design data pipelines and deploy AI models in live environments, lead technical scoping workshops with city leaders, collaborate with product and data science teams, write scalable backend code for AI features, shape technical culture of AI Labs.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic autonomy