Software Engineer, AI Platforms and Products
The New York TimesBase Salary
$110k - $130k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for the internal AI platform.
- Maintain platform components for prompt and workflow management, evaluation, tracing, and cost, usage, and performance monitoring.
- Build vector database and retrieval infrastructure for search and AI-powered discovery.
- Develop RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and orchestration layers connecting content, data, LLM calls, retrieval, and business logic.
- Develop infrastructure for AI application metadata, observability, and access controls.
- Implement data pipelines and storage solutions for AI systems.
- Write maintainable, well-tested backend code primarily in Python or Go.
- Ensure code quality, security, system observability, and service reliability.
- Collaborate with editorial, product, ML, data, and newsroom stakeholders to translate requirements into platform capabilities.
- Participate in code reviews, testing, documentation, design discussions, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- At least two years of software engineering experience focused on backend development.
- At least two years of experience with backend programming languages such as Python or Go.
- Experience building and operating APIs and services in production.
- Exposure to applications using large language models or familiarity with orchestration and retrieval-augmented generation.
- Preferred experience includes MLOps, model and prompt evaluation, tracing, monitoring, vector databases, embedding models, information retrieval, search systems, RAG systems, agentic AI workflows, and prompt management.
- Preferred familiarity includes Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, GCP, AWS, Kafka, Pub/Sub, LLM orchestration frameworks, agentic frameworks, and GraphQL.
- Preferred experience designing distributed systems at scale.
Benefits
- Hybrid position based at the New York City headquarters, typically requiring two days per week in the office.
Categories
About The New York Times
The New York Times is powered by the idea that independent, deeply reported journalism fuels a healthy and engaged society. Our reporters, columnists, editors, engineers, designers, data analysts, developers and marketers breathe life into the most important topics of our time and tell stories that might otherwise go untold. Whether bringing new truths to light with our reporting, building innovative products that deliver a best-in-class digital experience, or analyzing data to understand how we can best serve our readers, our people power the world’s top destination for journalism. Working at The Times means envisioning and developing the future of journalism. Bring your passion, perspective and experience and join us as we seek the truth and help people understand the world. Check out our career opportunities (nytco.com/careers) and follow our page to connect with Times employees, journalists and readers.