Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI
Emergence Capital Partners5 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship AI-powered product features from concept through production deployment.
- Develop and maintain LLM-based systems including RAG pipelines, agents, and workflow automation.
- Build evaluation frameworks and monitoring systems to ensure AI quality and reliability.
- Work directly with customers to understand problems, gather feedback, and validate solutions.
- Collaborate with product and design to define roadmap and prioritize features based on impact.
- Optimize system performance, cost, and latency as usage scales.
- Contribute to technical architecture decisions and establish engineering best practices.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 1-2 years building AI/ML-powered products.
- Strong proficiency in Python; experience with TypeScript/JavaScript for full-stack development.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs in production: prompt engineering, RAG systems, fine-tuning, or agent frameworks.
- Solid understanding of ML fundamentals: embeddings, vector databases, evaluation metrics, and model selection.
- Experience building and maintaining production systems with high reliability requirements.
- Strong product intuition, ability to translate ambiguous user needs into concrete technical solutions.
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working directly with customers and stakeholders.
- BS/MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.