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Applied AI Engineer

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Responsibilities

  • Design and build production agentic systems and workflows that solve defined problems end to end.
  • Own prompts, tools, retrieval, guardrails, observability, cost and latency budgets, evaluation, and rollout.
  • Identify operational workflows suitable for AI automation and partner with subject-matter experts to define success criteria and validate outputs.
  • Design AI features for compliance, safety, privacy, bias mitigation, human oversight, and content filtering.
  • Ship features with documentation, runbooks, evaluation harnesses, and dashboards.
  • Build manageable AI ecosystems that help cross-functional teams create and improve workflows and automations.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional engineering experience, including at least 1 year of hands-on experience building and operating production agentic systems.
  • Strong Python familiarity plus one typed language such as TypeScript or Go, with AWS or GCP and containerized deployment experience.
  • Several years of production software engineering experience and a track record of leading systems to launch.
  • Multiple shipped LLM-powered production features, including experience diagnosing failures and improving systems.
  • Practical knowledge of agentic patterns, retrieval and grounding, prompt engineering, structured outputs, and disciplined evaluation.
  • Experience standing up and testing local models and closed local-model solutions.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain architecture to executives and engineers.
  • Comfort using AI coding tools heavily while owning problem framing, design decisions, and verification.
  • Advanced retrieval, safety and privacy in user-facing AI, regulated-domain experience, prompt-optimization frameworks, public AI work, or open-source AI tooling experience is preferred.
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About Level

201-500 employees

Level builds a learning technology platform that combines established curriculum principles with interactive, game-style design to help students practice academic and life skills. The product runs on a forked, optimized Godot engine engineered to perform reliably on mobile and other constrained hardware. It targets students and educators seeking repeatable, meaningful practice in a format that feels like a game.

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