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Staff AI Engineer
Job Location:
Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
USD 130000 - 198000
Monthly Salary:
Experience Required:
5years
Experience Required:
Posted:
11 June 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
8 September 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Staff AI Engineer for Robots & Pencils. One opening. Remote US role; start date ASAP. Includes approximately 20% travel for in-person interview and one-week onboarding expenses covered. Compensation: $130000-$198000. Authorization: must be legally authorized to work in the US; no sponsorship.
This is a senior backend/AI engineering role in a mature production AI environment with real enterprise users. The role focuses on Python and backend engineering AWS-native serverless architecture DynamoDB single-table design and production-grade AI platform engineering: LLM function/tool calling multi-agent orchestration vector databases/OpenSearch RAG and streaming LLM responses.
Responsibilities include building and maintaining backend services developing APIs contributing to full-stack integration supporting workflow orchestration and event-driven processes improving reliability troubleshooting production systems supporting deployment/release processes participating in code reviews mentoring and taking end-to-end ownership of features.
Requirements
6 years professional software engineering experience. Strong Python and experience. Hands-on experience with LLM function/tool calling prompt engineering multi-agent orchestration vector databases/OpenSearch embeddings streaming LLM responses and RAG. AWS cloud experience including Lambda DynamoDB single-table design S3 SQS EventBridge and Step Functions. Experience building and maintaining full-stack applications workflow orchestration tools API design and backend systems SQL and NoSQL databases production environments unit testing maintainable test strategies and Docker. Nice to have: Langfuse synthetic AI testing token cost optimization reasoning effort configuration and Step Functions for AI workflows.
