Applied AI Engineer
Core
Building customer-facing AI experiences and agents that solve real problems using full-stack engineering and applied AI expertise.
Role type
Senior IC Applied AI Engineer (Product-minded)
Builds
Customer-facing AI agents, orchestration systems, tool-use interfaces, and production infrastructure
Domain
Developer tools / AI Agents / LLMs
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Full-stack engineering, agent loop design, tool use, retrieval, prompting, structured outputs, production system ownership, product intuition, customer feedback integration, technical mentorship
Preferred skills
Experience with virtual filesystems, collaborative editors, docs URL benchmarking
Technologies
LLMs, APIs, data pipelines, databases, infrastructure
Responsibilities
Design and ship end-to-end AI products from experimentation to production; develop reliable agent loops that reason over context and recover from failures; create evaluations and analyze failures to improve prompts, models, and flows; build APIs, data pipelines, and production infrastructure; mentor engineers and share technical knowledge
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with product ownership