Senior Applied AI Engineer
$190k - $265k • San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 1mo ago
About the job
Mintlify is seeking product-minded engineers to build the AI experiences behind their documentation platform. This role involves combining strong full-stack engineering with applied AI expertise to create agents that reliably solve real customer problems. As a Senior Applied AI Engineer, you will take ownership of complex AI products from early experimentation through production, helping to define technical direction, establish evaluation methods for agent performance, and elevate the quality of both AI products and engineering practices. You will architect and ship customer-facing AI experiences, build reliable agent systems, drive evaluation and iteration, and transform prototypes into scalable, reliable products.
Responsibilities
- Architect and ship customer-facing AI experiences, including agent orchestration, tool use, and supporting interfaces and backend systems.
- Develop agent loops that reason over complex context, call tools, recover from failures, and complete long-running tasks.
- Define evaluation metrics, build feedback loops, analyze failures, and systematically optimize prompts, context, models, tools, and product flows.
- Make architectural decisions regarding latency, cost, observability, and user experience to ensure reliable operation of AI systems at scale.
- Shape product direction and engineering approaches across the entire technology stack.
- Mentor other engineers, share technical knowledge, and help teammates grow.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of professional software development experience.
- Deep experience building production systems with language models, including agent loops, tool use, retrieval, prompting, and structured outputs.
- Comfortable owning production software across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
- Experience leading complex projects from experimentation through production.
- Strong product intuition and a focus on user-facing software.
- Eagerness to engage directly with customers to inform product development.
- Experience mentoring other engineers and sharing technical knowledge.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity
- 20 days paid time off annually
- 401k with Employer Match
- Monthly wellness stipend
- 100% employee coverage for Health, Dental, Vision
- Commute stipend
- Free lunch and dinners
- Annual team offsite