Staff AI Labs Engineer - End-to-End AI for Cities

Remix; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Via is forming AI Labs to build end-to-end AI powered products for city partners. As Staff Engineer, you will own the technical vision, design scalable APIs, and deliver production-grade AI systems in a fast-paced, autonomy-rich environment.

You will work closely with product, data science, and operations teams, travel to collaborate on-site, and shape the engineering culture from the ground up.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience building full stack applications with end-to-end ownership.
• 3+ years of working with AI tools and/or building AI-powered products.
• Deep expertise across the AI stack including LLMs and data infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship production-grade AI products end-to-end from problem framing to deployment.
• Collaborate with city partners to understand constraints and iterate on scalable AI solutions.
• Lead technical scoping and interface with leadership to drive ambitious AI initiatives.

Skills

Full stack

API design

Distributed systems

Clean code

Ambiguity tolerance

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

LLMs

Data pipelines

Predictive modelling

Job description

Via is forming AI Labs to build end-to-end AI powered products for city partners. As Staff Engineer, you will own the technical vision, design scalable APIs, and deliver production-grade AI systems in a fast-paced, autonomy-rich environment.

You will work closely with product, data science, and operations teams, travel to collaborate on-site, and shape the engineering culture from the ground up.