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Klaviyo

Sr. Lead AI Engineer

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

Base Salary

$216k - $324k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and improve the engineering architecture for Service and Marketing AI capabilities.
  • Build and harden AI serving systems with clear contracts and observability.
  • Evolve the agentic architecture to enhance tool use and reliability.
  • Set engineering standards for AI services, including best practices for evaluation and incident response.
  • Lead cross-team technical work, clarifying ownership and unblocking dependencies.
  • Mentor and uplevel engineers in design and operational best practices.
  • Help build the Palo Alto hub by shaping engineering rituals and facilitating collaboration.
  • Measure key metrics for systems to drive technical decisions.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend and distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience with generative and agentic AI in production.
  • Deep experience with large-scale distributed systems and async processing pipelines.
  • Proficient in Python and modern backend frameworks like FastAPI or Django.
  • Comfortable with AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience designing evaluations for AI systems and balancing quality metrics.
  • Ability to influence architecture and facilitate design reviews.
  • Collaborative mindset with a focus on customer experience.

Tech Stack

Apache HadoopApache KafkaApache SparkAWSDjangoFastAPIKubernetesPythonRabbitMQRedis

Categories

AI & MLBackend