Versant

Staff AI Engineer

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4 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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About Versant

11-50 employees

Versant is a Milwaukee-based, privately held branding and marketing services firm that helps employers and consumer brands with strategy, research, and creative execution. Its offerings include brand development, video production, employer branding, internal communications, and recruitment marketing, delivered on a project or retainer basis. Founded in 1962, the company supports organizations seeking to clarify their brand and improve talent and customer communications.

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