Applied AI Engineer

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Applied AI Engineer in USA

Mintlify
Full time
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USA
08/18/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Design and ship customer-facing AI experiences end to end, including agent orchestration, tool use, interfaces, and backend systems.
Build reliable agents that reason over complex context, call tools, recover from failures, and complete long-running tasks.
Create evaluations, analyze failures, and improve prompts, context, models, tools, and product flows.
Build APIs, data pipelines, interfaces, and production infrastructure for polished AI products.
Define technical direction and improve AI product quality and engineering practices.
Own complex AI products from early experimentation through production.

Requirements

At least 4 years of professional software development experience.
Deep experience building production systems with language models, including agent loops, tool use, retrieval, prompting, and structured outputs.
Experience owning production software across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
Experience leading complex projects from experimentation through production and defining solutions independently.
Strong product intuition and interest in building user-facing software.
Willingness to speak directly with customers and use their insights to shape products.
Experience mentoring engineers, sharing technical knowledge, and helping teammates grow.

Benefits

20 days of paid time off annually
401(k) or RRSP
$420/month wellness stipend
100% coverage for health, dental, and vision
Free rides to and from work via Uber
Free lunch and dinners
Annual team offsite
Competitive compensation and equity

Salary: $130k - $200k/yr

Mintlify

Knowledge infrastructure for AI. Mintlify powers docs for 20,000+ companies, reaching 100M+ developers a year. When humans or agents need to understand your product, they start with your docs. We make sure they find the right answers. We're hiring in SF at mintlify.com/careers.

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