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Mercury

Senior Software Engineer - AI Enablement

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about 2 hours ago
New York, NY, USA +3 more
Senior

Base Salary

$167k - $219k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve MCP servers connecting internal systems and data sources.
  • Expand and operate LLM gateway infrastructure for routing and observability.
  • Create shared prompt libraries and policy-as-code for safe team operations.
  • Maintain structured context artifacts for accurate reasoning by LLMs.
  • Improve knowledge discoverability for both humans and agents.
  • Partner with domain teams to standardize and update key sources of truth.
  • Build sandbox environments for safe AI experimentation.
  • Create self-service tools for non-engineers to prototype AI workflows.
  • Develop evaluation harnesses for testing internal AI agents.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of backend development experience in complex production systems.
  • Fluency across programming languages and platform engineering.
  • Hands-on experience with LLM-powered systems and production deployment.
  • Understanding of tradeoffs in AI deployments, including cost and safety.
  • High-agency and self-directed with the ability to find high-leverage work.
  • Clear communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

Categories

AI & MLBackend