[Hiring] AI Engineer @AvantStay

Role Description

You will be a strong individual contributor comfortable working directly with stakeholders. You will be reporting to senior engineering leaders, working alongside ~30 people across backend, frontend, data, and DevSecOps. The team is fully remote, flat, and talent-dense. You won't be starting from scratch - you'll join a strong team with years of experience and strong understanding of our systems.

• Ship LLM systems that tightly integrate with our infrastructure and knowledge bases: PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, Kafka, APIs, MCPs.
• Maintain autonomous and human-in-the-loop systems and ensure uptime and accuracy.
• Interact with users and stakeholders to understand their problems and design solutions.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in LLMs and applied AI practices.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, designers, and other members to create a product that solves actual problems.
• Update existing systems to be agent-accessible. Some % of the work is refactoring APIs that were never meant to be called by an LLM - be ready for that.
• Build the patterns and tooling that let the rest of engineering deploy agents faster.

Qualifications

• Shipped at least one LLM-powered system used by real users (internal or external) that took actions in a real system.
• Can talk specifically about evals, retrieval shape, observability of agent traces, and handling non-determinism in a system business operators depend on.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals - databases, Kafka, GraphQL/REST, Kubernetes, AWS.
• Proficient in TypeScript. Scala (functional, Typelevel) and Python are a plus, but deep Scala expertise is not required.
• Product instincts. You can sit with a stakeholder for an hour and walk out with a concrete idea of what to build.
• Fluent in English.

Nice to have

• OSS contributions to the AI ecosystem. Examples: LangGraph, PydanticAI, DSPy, instructor, or similar.
• Functional programming background. Preference to use functional paradigm.
• High-throughput data systems experience (Kafka, ClickHouse, Postgres at scale).

Benefits

• Equity
• Generous paid time off including holidays
• 100% remote - work from anywhere in the world
• Complimentary and discounted stays at AvantStay properties
• Periodic team gatherings
• Budget for Greenfield AI Tooling