5 months ago
Base Salary
$260k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and set the technical direction for Strava’s shared GenAI and Discovery Platform.
- Develop LLM integrations, workflow orchestration, prompt management, RAG pipelines, search and retrieval services, agent capabilities, and evaluation tooling.
- Create self-service interfaces and golden paths that enable product teams to ship GenAI-powered features.
- Own AI platform capabilities from architecture and interface design through production deployment, monitoring, and operational improvement.
- Ensure platform correctness, latency, reliability, cost efficiency, versioning, contracts, SLAs, monitoring, and deprecation paths.
- Use Strava’s fitness and geographic datasets to support actionable insights and athlete experiences.
- Lead multi-team technical projects, establish GenAI engineering practices, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building and operating complex production AI or backend systems at scale.
- Experience building AI platform tooling or developer-facing infrastructure for LLM or ML systems, including API design, versioning, and self-service patterns.
- Hands-on production experience with large language models, agentic workflows, prompt and context engineering, RAG architectures, embedding pipelines, fine-tuning workflows, or LLM evaluation frameworks.
- Experience with tools such as LangChain and with search systems such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and vector search.
- Proficiency developing backend services in cloud environments, preferably AWS, using Python and Go.
- Understanding of distributed systems and containerized infrastructure, including Kubernetes and Docker.
- Ability to lead multi-team projects, define technical direction, and grow engineers at multiple levels.
- Curiosity about model capabilities, agent frameworks, multimodal systems, and responsible application of GenAI to product problems.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model requiring more than half of working time onsite in the San Francisco office, generally three days per week.
- Inclusive and collaborative workplace with opportunities for employee growth and development.
- Reasonable accommodations are provided for individuals with disabilities.
- Benefits information is provided through an external benefits document.
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About Strava
Strava builds a fitness-tracking and social platform for runners, cyclists, and other athletes on iOS, Android, and the web. The company operates a freemium subscription business with paid training, routing, and safety features, plus APIs and Strava for Business partnerships. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and used by over 200 million athletes across more than 185 countries.