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Staff AI engineer

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-03-03 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead company-wide technical strategy for AI systems and infrastructure, designing and deploying large-scale AI solutions for conversational commerce on WhatsApp.

Role type

Staff AI Engineer (Strategy & Hands-on IC)

Builds

Production-grade AI systems, conversational interfaces, and enterprise integration platforms for retail customers.

Domain

Conversational commerce, Latin American retail, Large Language Models (LLMs), Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Large-scale AI system strategy, LLM deployment, multi-agent orchestration, model fine-tuning, distributed systems architecture, inference optimization, technical leadership, Python, AWS, Kafka, Postgres, DynamoDB

Preferred skills

Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, contextual reasoning, AI evaluation frameworks, prompt optimization

Technologies

Python, AWS, Kafka, Postgres, DynamoDB, LLMs

Responsibilities

Define and execute technical strategy for AI platform, architect and launch production AI systems, lead technical alignment across distributed teams, experiment with advanced LLMs, design evaluation frameworks, develop model fine-tuning pipelines, optimize cost and scalability, mentor engineering teams

Seniority

Staff, strategic leadership with hands-on technical execution

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