Frontline AI Engineer: End-to-End Deployments + Equity

scalr; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Early stage equity

Job summary

scalr is seeking an engineer to take an AI system from a blank page to a production-ready product used by customers daily. You’ll work inside enterprise client environments on LLM-powered systems, retrieval-based apps, and the surrounding APIs, shipping GenAI features from prototype to stable production with ongoing evals and reliability.

This role suits someone with a customer-facing, applied AI or consulting background and a strong CS degree, open to travel ~20% and comfortable with startup

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience.
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript in production.
• Comfortable owning a problem end to end, from backend to frontend.
• Track record shipping data-heavy or AI-enabled applications.
• Easy in front of customers, and able to explain things to technical and non-technical people alike.
• Open to travel, roughly 20 percent.
• Wants startup pace and real ownership.

Responsibilities

• Take an AI system from a blank page to a customer-reliant product.
• Work inside enterprise client environments to identify bottlenecks and fix them.
• Ship GenAI features from prototype to production with reliability ownership.

Skills

3+ years experience

Python

TypeScript

End-to-end ownership

AI-enabled apps

Customer-facing

Travel ~20%

Startup pace

Education

CS degree

Job description

scalr is seeking an engineer to take an AI system from a blank page to a production-ready product used by customers daily. You’ll work inside enterprise client environments on LLM-powered systems, retrieval-based apps, and the surrounding APIs, shipping GenAI features from prototype to stable production with ongoing evals and reliability.

This role suits someone with a customer-facing, applied AI or consulting background and a strong CS degree, open to travel ~20% and comfortable with startup