Senior Applied AI Engineer

Mintlify
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 190,000 - 265,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["Product intuition","Customer focus","Ownership","Mentorship","Problem-solving"]

Own end-to-end delivery of customer-facing AI experiences, from agent orchestration and tool use to the interfaces and backend systems that support them. Build reliable agent loops that reason over complex context, recover from failures, and complete long-running tasks. Define evaluation and feedback loops to measure and iteratively improve prompt, context, model, tool, and product-flow performance—turning prototypes into scalable, observable production systems.

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Mintlify
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Senior Applied AI Engineer

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end delivery of customer-facing AI experiences, from agent orchestration and tool use to the interfaces and backend systems that support them. Build reliable agent loops that reason over complex context, recover from failures, and complete long-running tasks. Define evaluation and feedback loops to measure and iteratively improve prompt, context, model, tool, and product-flow performance—turning prototypes into scalable, observable production systems.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect and ship customer-facing AI experiences, including agent orchestration, tool use, and supporting interfaces and backend systems.
  • •Develop reliable agent systems with reasoning over complex context, tool calling, failure recovery, and long-running task completion.
  • •Define evaluation (evals) and build feedback loops to analyze failures and iteratively improve agent performance.
  • •Make product and engineering decisions on architecture, latency, cost, observability, and user experience to operate AI systems reliably at scale.
  • •Shape product direction and engineering approaches across the stack.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 190,000 - 265,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Paid Leave401kWellness StipendHealth InsuranceDentalVisionMeal Allowance

Key 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.
  • •Comfort owning production software across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
  • •Experience taking complex projects from experimentation through production.
  • •Experience mentoring other engineers and sharing technical knowledge.
Experience:4+ yearsAILanguage models
Skills:Product intuitionCustomer focusOwnershipMentorshipProblem-solving
Tech Stack:Language modelsAgent orchestrationTool useRetrievalPromptingStructured outputsAPIsDatabasesObservability

Company Brief

Mintlify
Mintlify provides an AI-native documentation platform that automates and beautifies developer documentation, offering docs-as-code, visual editing, and AI assistants to help teams create and maintain developer-facing docs at scale.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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