Senior AI Software Engineer - Remote + Equity

Platzi; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hardware tools provided

Books on Kindle

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Option Pool

Vacation 15 days

Online therapy

Team syncs

Villa Platzi

Job summary

Platzi is a leading technology school serving millions in Latin America. As a Senior Software Engineer (Learn), you build and own AI-powered systems in production, focusing on orchestration, evals, and cost efficiency for millions of learners.

You report to the AI Lead and bring judgment to ambiguous problems, deciding when not to build and ensuring long-term maintainability beyond immediate merges.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building software in production and owning systems at scale.
• Experience bringing LLM-powered systems to production and assessing trade-offs.
• Fluency in English and Spanish for collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Build AI features shipped to students with production-grade reliability and cost awareness.
• Design orchestration behind features, with debuggable flows between agents and tools.
• Incorporate evals to measure improvements and trade-offs in real deployments.
• Choose appropriate approaches (LLM, classical model, or deterministic code) per problem.
• Defend architecture decisions and avoid unnecessary complexity.

Skills

Production-grade software

LLM systems

English & Spanish

Frameworks knowledge

Tools

Pydantic

Agents SDK

A2A

Job description

Platzi is a leading technology school serving millions in Latin America. As a Senior Software Engineer (Learn), you build and own AI-powered systems in production, focusing on orchestration, evals, and cost efficiency for millions of learners.

You report to the AI Lead and bring judgment to ambiguous problems, deciding when not to build and ensuring long-term maintainability beyond immediate merges.