Senior AI Labs Engineer — Build Citywide AI Solutions

Via

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 250,000

Full time

14 days+
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Medical plans
401K matching
Catered lunch on Wednesdays

Job summary

Via is launching AI Labs—an incubator-style team inside the company—to build AI-powered products for cities and transit networks. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll own end-to-end delivery from problem framing to deployment, shaping product strategy and collaborating with customers to solve complex city-scale challenges.

You’ll work with product, data science, and operations to identify high-impact opportunities, write scalable backend and frontend code, and help set the technical culture of AI Labs

Qualifications

  • 8+ years building full-stack applications with end-to-end ownership.
  • 3+ years building AI-powered products or using AI tools.
  • Deep expertise across the AI stack including LLMs, predictive modelling, and data infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship production-grade AI products end-to-end from problem framing to deployment.
  • Collaborate with customers in a forward-deployed manner to understand problems and iterate on solutions.
  • Lead technical scoping workshops interfacing with city leaders to solve local challenges.
  • Contribute to data consolidation, predictive modelling, real-time decisions, and LLM-powered experiences.
  • Work with product, data science, and operations to prioritize high-impact AI opportunities.
  • Write clean, scalable backend and frontend code powering AI-driven features; design APIs and data flows.
  • Help shape the technical culture of AI Labs and its development processes.
  • Stay close to AI frontier and bring new ideas and tools into the team.

Skills

Full stack
Backend engineering
Cross-functional collaboration
On-site travel

Tools

LLMs
APIs
Data pipelines

Job description

Via is launching AI Labs—an incubator-style team inside the company—to build AI-powered products for cities and transit networks. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll own end-to-end delivery from problem framing to deployment, shaping product strategy and collaborating with customers to solve complex city-scale challenges.

You’ll work with product, data science, and operations to identify high-impact opportunities, write scalable backend and frontend code, and help set the technical culture of AI Labs

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