Podium

Staff AI Engineer - Utah

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4 months ago
Lehi, UT, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale a high-volume AI Agent platform for real-time, multi-turn, cross-channel customer interactions.
  • Design and implement APIs, services, and infrastructure supporting conversational workflows.
  • Own architecture, implementation, deployment, and ongoing reliability across the software lifecycle.
  • Prototype with live interaction data and improve system performance, accuracy, latency, and user experience.
  • Implement observability, monitoring, and operational practices for production reliability.
  • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and AI/ML scientists to deliver end-to-end features.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with at least one modern language such as Go, Python, or Elixir.
  • At least 1 year of professional experience deploying and maintaining production AI agents that interact with tools, APIs, or real-world workflows.
  • Proven success designing and maintaining distributed or high-throughput systems.
  • Strong problem-solving ability, comfort with ambiguity, excellent communication, and effective cross-team collaboration.
  • Willingness to work across infrastructure, APIs, and user-facing components as needed.
  • Preferred qualifications include 2+ years of production AI-agent experience, LLM behavior evaluation experience, prompt design and context engineering, guardrail strategies, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, fine-tuning, and data curation.

Benefits

  • Open and transparent culture, career growth opportunities, collaboration with world-class talent, and the opportunity to impact local businesses.
  • Life insurance and long- and short-term disability coverage.
  • Paid maternity and paternity leave and fertility benefits.
  • Generous vacation time plus three four-day summer holiday weekends.
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • 401(k) plan with company matching.
  • Bi-annual Podium swag drops.
  • Onsite work five days per week.

Tech Stack

ElixirGoPython
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About Podium

1,001-5,000 employees

Podium builds a customer messaging and engagement platform for local and service-based businesses, combining SMS-based reviews, lead capture, payments, and text marketing with AI agents that respond to and convert inquiries. The company sells its software on a subscription basis and integrates with common vertical systems in automotive, home services, and aesthetics. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Lehi, Utah, Podium is privately held.

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