Senior Applied AI Engineer

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Senior Applied AI Engineer in USA

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

Responsibilities

Architect and ship customer-facing AI experiences, including agent orchestration, tool use, interfaces, and backend systems.
Develop reliable agent loops that reason over complex context, call tools, recover from failures, and complete long-running tasks.
Define evaluations, build feedback loops, analyze failures, and iteratively improve prompts, context, models, tools, and product flows.
Turn prototypes into reliable production systems by making decisions about architecture, latency, cost, observability, and user experience.
Shape product direction and engineering approaches across the stack.
Own complex AI products from early experimentation through production and help raise engineering quality.

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 engage directly with customers and use their insights to shape products.
Experience mentoring engineers, sharing technical knowledge, and helping teammates grow.

Benefits

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

Salary: $190k - $265k/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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