[Hiring] Staff AI Engineer @Conveyor

Role Description

As one of the first AI engineers on the team, this is a unique opportunity to shape Conveyor’s AI core capabilities, and create a huge impact on a critical pillar in our product strategy. Reporting directly to the CTO, you’ll play a critical role in building and optimizing our AI development process and further building the team.

• You will analyze our AI quality and performance, propose and experiment with new technologies and ideas, then implement and improve Conveyor products.
• You will define and implement metrics and processes to evaluate and improve AI quality.
• You'll autonomously manage and own individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• You’ll scope and implement project-level solutions with minimal guidance.
• You’ll collaborate and pair frequently with teammates and peers.
• You'll inform the product roadmap and implementation decisions based on feasibility.
• You'll ensure that our product is maintainable, meaning that other engineers are able to contribute new functionality easily, and without frequent technical debt.
• You'll partner with Product and Design to effectively plan new features, avoiding bottlenecks and maximizing velocity when it comes time to implement.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technical leadership roles, with a focus on AI/ML technologies in recent years.
• Strong preference for experience in startup environments.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering foundations, building and shipping products. Your designs should be performant, maintainable (for years, not months), and evolvable.
• Recent experience in the AI/ML space, and specifically LLMs. Familiarity with key concepts, frameworks, tools and technologies. Experience evaluating different approaches and technologies, prompt engineering, evals and observability, RAG flows, search technologies, agent frameworks, etc.
• Able to perform both research/analysis and production software development work.
• Curiosity and Continuous Learning: You are up to speed on developments in the fast-paced AI/ML world, and constantly thinking about how to apply new technologies and offerings to our real-world problems.
• Bias for action: Startup mentality, get things done, fast iterations, strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities. Previous experience in a small startup (or as a founder) is highly preferred.
• Product Sense: You seek to understand the features you're working on, and actively propose positive changes. Collaborate with product and design to inform roadmap decisions.
• Team Player: You have excellent communication skills (verbal and written), enjoy collaborating with others and mentoring team members.
• Deliver Legendary Customer Experience: You have experience building and scaling products that delight real users.
• Ownership: Strong sense of ownership and accountability, honor commitments and be transparent about challenges.

Job Location

• This position is available in the United States and Canada.
• We are a remote-first company so you’ll be working from home most of the time, traveling for in person sessions a few times a year.
• Preferred location: San Francisco Bay Area.