Senior AI Engineer

Xwing; San Carlos (CA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Healthcare benefits

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Joby is seeking a Senior AI Engineer who will bring production-grade AI, computer vision, and automation into manufacturing workflows.

You will partner with software, product, operations, and hardware teams to identify high-impact opportunities, deploy AI-enabled services, and raise the bar for the team with robust patterns and tooling.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in CS, EE, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years building and operating production software systems.
• Strong Python skills and AI/ML, CV, or data-intensive work.
• Experience designing APIs, services, and scalable architectures.
• Proven track record moving prototypes to production with debugging.

Responsibilities

• Identify, prototype, and deploy AI/ML and computer vision solutions to improve manufacturing workflows.
• Build reliable AI-enabled services, APIs, and data pipelines across systems and equipment.
• Ensure model quality and guard against incorrect predictions in production.
• Own end-to-end delivery from requirements to deployment and monitoring.
• Lead design discussions, mentor engineers, and establish patterns for AI features.

Skills

Python

AI/ML

Computer Vision

APIs design

Production systems

Debugging/Observability

Education

B.S./M.S. in CS/EE or equivalent

Job description

Senior AI Engineer

Job Locations

US-CA-San Carlos

Company Overview

Imagine a piloted air taxi that takes off vertically, then quietly carries you and your fellow passengers over the congested city streets below, enabling you to spend more time with the people and places that matter most. At Joby, we've been working to make that dream a reality since 2009 and we're now in the final stages of certifying our aircraft with the FAA. With plans to launch our aircraft in the US and Dubai, we're now scaling manufacturing and preparing for the launch of our commercial service.

Overview

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer with broad software experience and a strong AI focus to help bring production-grade AI, computer vision, and automation capabilities into the systems that power Joby's manufacturing workflows. In this role, you'll partner closely with software engineers, product, operations, manufacturing, quality, and hardware teams to identify high-impact opportunities, build reliable AI-enabled services, and deploy vision systems that improve inspection, traceability, process monitoring, and decision support. Beyond individual projects, you'll help shape how AI is applied across the team, establishing the patterns and practices that let Factory Systems ship intelligent capabilities with confidence. You'll work in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment at the intersection of software, data, hardware, and aircraft manufacturing—where the output of your work directly improves how we build and scale.

Responsibilities

• Identify, prototype, and deploy AI/ML and computer vision solutions that improve manufacturing workflows — use cases like visual inspection, anomaly detection, and traceability
• Build reliable AI-enabled services, APIs, and data pipelines that integrate internal systems, manufacturing equipment, and operational data
• Build the safeguards that let AI operate in a real factory: measure model quality before and after deployment, and make sure a wrong prediction never silently propagates into a manufacturing decision
• Own end-to-end delivery, from requirements discovery through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration
• Raise the bar for the whole team by leading technical design discussions, mentoring engineers, and establishing the patterns and tooling that let others build and operate AI-enabled features themselves

Required

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems
• Strong Python skills and experience building AI/ML, computer vision, or data-intensive systems
• Experience designing APIs, services, integrations, and maintainable system architectures
• Experience moving prototypes into reliable production systems, with strong debugging, testing, and observability practices
• Clear communication and a track record of collaborating across disciplines — hardware, operations, manufacturing, or quality — to deliver outcomes

Desired

• Computer vision experience in object detection, segmentation, or image-processing pipelines — ideally applied in manufacturing, robotics, or other hardware-adjacent environments
• Experience operating GPU compute for AI workloads — model serving, inference optimization or on-prem/hybrid infrastructure
• Familiarity with modern ML and LLM tooling: evaluation frameworks, labeling workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, or agentic workflow automation
• Experience building internal tools or enterprise applications that integrate with manufacturing data systems and real-time operational processes

Additional Information

Compensation at Joby is a combination of base pay and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The target base pay for this position is $137,200 - $206,600/yr.

The compensation package will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Joby also offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan with a company match, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, and more.

Joby is an Equal Opportunity Employer