Applied AI Engineer — Build Production AI Experiences

AI Chopping Block; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

PTO 20 days

401k

Wellness stipend

Health/dental/vision

Transit stipend

Lunch and dinners

Team offsite

Job summary

Mintlify is hiring an Applied AI Engineer in San Francisco to own AI products end to end. You will design and ship customer-facing AI experiences, build agent loops, and improve prompts and models. You’ll work across frontends, backends, APIs, and data infrastructure to turn prototypes into polished products.

You will lead complex projects, mentor teammates, and engage with customers to shape product direction, all within a small, high-velocity team.

Qualifications

• You have at least 4 years of professional software development experience.
• You possess deep experience building production systems with language models, including agent loops, tool use, retrieval, prompting, and structured outputs.
• You are comfortable owning production software across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
• You have led complex projects from experimentation through production and thrive when defining solutions rather than following a spec.
• You have strong product intuition and care about the 'why' as much as the 'how' when building user-facing software.
• You’re eager to talk directly with customers and use those insights to shape what we build.
• You have experience mentoring other engineers, sharing technical knowledge, and helping teammates grow.

Responsibilities

• Building AI products end to end: Designing and shipping customer-facing AI experiences.
• Developing reliable agents: Building agent loops that reason over context and use tools.
• Evaluating and improving performance: Creating evals, analyzing failures, and improving prompts.
• Shipping across the stack: Building APIs, data pipelines, interfaces, and production infra.

Skills

Language models

Agent loops

Tool use

Retrieval

Prompting

Structured outputs

Mentoring engineers

Customer-facing communication

Project leadership

Tools

APIs

Databases

Frontend

Backend

Infrastructure

Job description

Mintlify is hiring an Applied AI Engineer in San Francisco to own AI products end to end. You will design and ship customer-facing AI experiences, build agent loops, and improve prompts and models. You’ll work across frontends, backends, APIs, and data infrastructure to turn prototypes into polished products.

You will lead complex projects, mentor teammates, and engage with customers to shape product direction, all within a small, high-velocity team.