Staff AI Engineer: Build Production-Grade AI Systems

Pendo; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-heavy health coverage

401(k) match

Equity

Flexible time off

Job summary

B Capital is seeking a Staff AI Software Engineer to design and build production-grade AI systems in New York City. The role involves collaborating across teams while ensuring that AI products meet real-world user needs.

The ideal candidate will have deep experience in LLM systems and the ability to guide project direction. A hybrid work culture is encouraged, requiring in-office attendance three days a week.

The salary range for this position is $250,000 - $280,000, accompanied by competitive employer-heavy benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience building and shipping LLM-powered systems, including retrieval-augmented generation.
• Demonstrated ability to establish architectural patterns for AI systems.
• Strong understanding of model evaluation to detect and mitigate hallucinations.
• Experience in model deployment and reliability optimization in live environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade AI systems for real user support.
• Own model deployment, monitoring, and reliability at scale.
• Partner with product and design to frame problems before implementation.
• Stay current on research and tooling to elevate technical standards.

Skills

Deep hands-on experience with LLM-powered systems

Ability to set technical direction for AI systems

Strong command of model evaluation

Production MLOps experience

Exceptional communication skills

Tools

Transformers

Diffusion models

Job description

B Capital is seeking a Staff AI Software Engineer to design and build production-grade AI systems in New York City. The role involves collaborating across teams while ensuring that AI products meet real-world user needs.

The ideal candidate will have deep experience in LLM systems and the ability to guide project direction. A hybrid work culture is encouraged, requiring in-office attendance three days a week.

The salary range for this position is $250,000 - $280,000, accompanied by competitive employer-heavy benefits.