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Klaviyo

Lead AI Engineer

Klaviyo
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3 days ago
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Mid Level / Senior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$176k - $264k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build core AI services for marketing and service capabilities.
  • Scale AI data and inference pipelines for generative and agentic models.
  • Implement AI serving systems with strong contracts and observability.
  • Evolve agentic architecture to enhance autonomy and reliability.
  • Apply best practices for AI systems evaluation and incident response.
  • Collaborate with product, ML, data, and platform teams to clarify requirements.
  • Mentor and support the growth of mid-level and junior engineers.
  • Participate in local engineering rituals and contribute to team culture.
  • Use metrics to guide technical decisions and influence the team roadmap.

Requirements

  • 5–7+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend and distributed systems.
  • Experience building and shipping generative or agentic AI applications.
  • Strong background in distributed systems and async processing.
  • Proficient in Python and modern backend frameworks like FastAPI or Django.
  • Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Knowledge of evaluation and quality standards for AI systems.
  • Collaborative mindset with a focus on customer experience.
  • Growth-oriented with strong communication skills.
  • Experience experimenting with AI tools in work or personal projects.

Tech Stack

Apache HadoopApache KafkaApache SparkAWSDjangoFastAPIKubernetesPythonRabbitMQRedis

Categories

AI & MLBackend