Senior AI Labs Engineer — Build Citywide AI Solutions

Via; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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