Staff Applied AI Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New Jersey.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the AI initiatives within a specific business domain, identifying workflows and assessing potential opportunities.

• Determine the development priorities, including what to create, in what sequence, and the rationale behind these decisions.

• Personally develop the initial, most challenging, or high-risk AI use cases from the prototype stage to production, ensuring adoption and measuring impact.

• Extract reusable connectors, evaluation harnesses, and workflow patterns from successful implementations.

• Establish success metrics and demonstrate the cumulative value of the portfolio to domain leadership.

• Design agents that incorporate traces, evaluations, and human-in-the-loop gates to ensure evidence-based autonomy.

• Utilize Claude, OpenAI, and the company’s orchestration platform on a daily basis.

• Shape platform decisions through expertise in models, harnesses, and tooling.

• Build trust with functional leaders, secure sponsorship, and navigate competing priorities effectively.

• Review designs and code, assist engineers in overcoming obstacles, conduct candidate interviews, and mentor team members.

• Design and implement production-grade applications centered around agents and AI workflows.

• Report directly to the Head of Applied AI.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated ownership of a business domain, program, or product area at a portfolio level.

• Successfully delivered multiple end-to-end agentic or AI-driven solutions to actual users in various contexts.

• Daily proficiency with Claude, OpenAI, or comparable AI models.

• Well-informed opinions regarding AI frameworks, evaluations, and orchestration.

• Capability to translate business challenges into well-defined, sequenced software portfolios.

• Ability to independently architect and build agent systems.

• Practical experience in developing and launching production applications, ideally full-stack.

• Strong architectural judgment regarding both frontend and backend systems.

• Robust application engineering skills across frontend APIs, state management, latency, reliability, security, and scalability.

• Proven experience in delivering measurable business results.

• History of enhancing the skills of other engineers through review, mentorship, patterns, or tooling.

• Excellent communication skills with operators, engineers, and executives.

• Commitment to active learning and staying informed about current AI models, tools, and techniques.

• Legally authorized to work in the United States, verified through e-Verify.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance.

• Fertility assistance.

• Commuter assistance.

• Educational assistance benefits.

• Competitive 401k matching plan.

• Flexible time-off policies.

• Ten company-paid holidays.

• Discounts on select grading services for approved submissions.

• Flexible schedules with varying shifts.

• Opportunities for celebrations, holiday events, and team-building activities.