Senior AI Engineer

Senior AI Engineer

We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join our Engineering team as a founding member of a new, high‑impact venture. This is a greenfield role: you’ll be the first hire for a brand‑new AI‑powered application within our ecosystem, centered around conversational and agentic interfaces. You will design the system, make core architectural decisions, and report directly to the Engineering Director.

As the team scales, you’ll play a central role in hiring, shaping culture, and setting engineering standards from day one.

• Lead the development of a new AI‑powered product, from initial architecture to production‑ready code.
• Design and build sophisticated conversational experiences and agentic workflows that solve real shopper needs.
• Own the full‑stack lifecycle, ensuring seamless integration between LLM capabilities, backend logic, and frontend interfaces.
• Set the bar for AI engineering standards, including RAG patterns, prompt engineering, and model orchestration.
• Shape the future team by participating in hiring and mentoring as the project expands.
• Collaborate directly with leadership to influence product strategy and technical roadmap.
• Implement AI‑first development workflows, leveraging tools like Claude Code to accelerate delivery.

• Proven experience building AI‑powered products (conversational UIs, agentic systems, or LLM applications).
• Full‑stack engineering skills; comfortable owning the entire stack from frontend to backend.
• Deep AI/ML tooling knowledge: expert‑level familiarity with LLMs, RAG, agents, and orchestration frameworks (e.g., Lang Chain, CrewAI, etc.).
• Product mindset: focus on user impact and business value.
• Comfort with ambiguity in greenfield environments.
• Growth mindset: eager to learn and continuously improve.
• Fluent in English.
• Experience with the AWS stack and serverless architectures.
• Dev Ops skills: familiarity with deploying and monitoring AI applications at scale.
• Prior experience in e‑commerce or high‑traffic consumer‑facing products.
• Experience in early‑stage startups or “vanguard” teams within larger orgs.

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, even if they do not meet every single requirement.