Senior Applied AI Engineer – Lead End-to-End AI Products

Mintlify; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity

20 days PTO

401k

Wellness stipend

Health/dental/vision coverage

Free meals

Annual team offsite

Job summary

Mintlify, in San Francisco, seeks a Senior Applied AI Engineer to own complex AI products from early experimentation to production. You will define technical direction, measure agent performance, and raise the quality of AI systems and engineering practices.

You’ll lead architectural decisions, improve prompts and tooling, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable AI experiences at scale.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of software development experience.
• Proven track record building production systems with language models, agent loops, tool use, retrieval and prompting.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI products end to end from experimentation to production.
• Build reliable agent systems with context handling and tool use.
• Define evaluation loops and push improvements across prompts, models, and workflows.
• Turn prototypes into scalable products with attention to latency, cost, and observability.
• Shape product direction and engineering approaches across the stack.

Skills

4+ years experience

Production ML systems

Agent loops & tools

Frontend, backend, APIs

Product intuition

Customer discovery

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Lang. models

Retrieval & prompting

Job description

Mintlify, in San Francisco, seeks a Senior Applied AI Engineer to own complex AI products from early experimentation to production. You will define technical direction, measure agent performance, and raise the quality of AI systems and engineering practices.

You’ll lead architectural decisions, improve prompts and tooling, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable AI experiences at scale.