Versant

Staff AI Engineer

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2 months ago
Prague, CzechiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate reliable, scalable, end-to-end distributed agentic AI solutions.
  • Design LLM-powered systems incorporating orchestration, retrieval, tool use, evaluation, and operational safeguards.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives involving multiple teams and shared systems.
  • Mentor engineers and define engineering quality standards, architectural patterns, and best practices.
  • Own long-term maintainability, observability, and cost efficiency of AI systems.
  • Monitor model-quality drift, prompt alignment, alerting, and operational health.
  • Build human-in-the-loop evaluation pipelines and evaluation suites for production agentic systems.
  • Debug scaled LLM systems and participate in incident response.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 5 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining software systems.
  • Excellent backend expertise in at least one strongly typed language, preferably TypeScript.
  • Strong understanding of cloud computing primitives, especially AWS.
  • Strong understanding of agentic AI concepts, including tool use, function calling, state machines or graphs, retrieval and reranking, structured outputs, memory, guardrails, and evaluation.
  • Experience developing and deploying agentic workflows with LangChain, Mastra, or LangGraph.
  • Prior experience leading an AI systems team.
  • Experience shipping and operating multiple GenAI or LLM systems in production.
  • Hands-on experience debugging scaled LLM systems and participating in incident response.
  • Experience building human-in-the-loop evaluation pipelines.
  • Experience with RAG, embeddings, and model fine-tuning.
  • Experience implementing evaluation suites for agentic systems running in production.
  • Genuine interest in investing, public markets, and fundamental business analysis.

Benefits

  • On-site work in Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Employment through Remote Technology Czech S.R.O. as an Employer of Record, including local payroll, statutory benefits, and compliance with Czech employment legislation.
  • Small, high-ownership startup environment with the backing and stability of VERSANT.
  • Direct access to experienced market professionals, including former hedge fund managers and analysts.
  • Opportunity to work on existing AI products with real user impact and greenfield projects.
  • External candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview at a VERSANT location.
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