Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI (IC)
PrizePicks2 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$175k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement an agent platform with orchestration, tool or function calling, evaluation harnesses, prompt and version management, tracing, observability, safety, and guardrails.
- Support RAG, structured extraction, and production inference workflows.
- Partner with application engineering teams to integrate AI into code review, test generation, incident support, and developer copilot workflows with measurable quality gates.
- Diagnose agent behavior from execution traces, including inputs, intermediate steps, and failure points, and verify AI-generated code and tests.
- Own applied AI projects from prototype through production, including data needs, system design, model or vendor selection, rollout, monitoring, and iteration.
- Deliver customer-facing AI outcomes with product, design, and data/ML stakeholders.
- Assess organization-wide AI adoption, identify bottlenecks and tooling gaps, and build or teach solutions that improve adoption.
- Establish engineering practices for reliability, evaluation, incident response, privacy, security, and AI development.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews and pairing while providing pragmatic technical leadership.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent, including shipping production systems.
- Direct experience on an Applied AI or product AI team building LLM- or ML-powered features, with agent and tooling experience strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated judgment in scoping agent tasks, deciding what to delegate, and verifying agent output before trusting it.
- Strong backend and system design skills involving APIs, distributed systems, queues or workflows, observability, and performance.
- Ability to work with product, design, data/ML, platform, and application engineering partners in ambiguous environments.
- Track record of mentoring peers and improving engineering quality, including critical review of AI-generated code.
- Experience building platform capabilities such as SDKs, internal frameworks, or developer tooling is preferred.
- Practical experience with embeddings, search or retrieval, evaluation methodologies, model monitoring, AI-powered agents or assistants, inference constraints, and model or vendor tradeoffs is preferred.
- Must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer; visa sponsorship or sponsorship transfer is unavailable.
Benefits
- Remote candidates are considered anywhere in the U.S., with a preference for Atlanta.
- Full-time employees receive company-subsidized medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) plan with company match, annual bonus, flexible PTO, and paid leave including 16-week parental leave and disability benefits are provided.
- Workplace flexibility, modern work schedules, company-wide in-person events, team outings, lifestyle enhancement benefits, and company-provided Windows or Mac equipment are offered.
- Annual performance reviews and career development opportunities are available.
Tech Stack
Windows
Categories
About PrizePicks
PrizePicks builds a skill-based daily fantasy sports platform where fans make player projections across major leagues and esports in real time. The privately held company, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Atlanta, monetizes through entry fees and payouts on its mobile and web apps. It serves users across North America and is available on iOS, Android, and the web.