Staff Software Engineer, AI Experiences & Agents
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Los Angeles, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 240000 - 250000
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Posted on:
25 days ago
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Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
The Role
The AI Agents and Experience team focused on turning frontier model capabilities into useful trustworthy product experiences for creators businesses and their audiences. As an Applied AI Engineer at Linktree youll work across product design data and platform engineering to build AI agents and AI-powered experiences that help people create personalize automate and grow from one Linktree.
This role is for a strong product engineer who can move from concept to prototype to production. Youll move quickly learn from real usage and harden what works with evaluation observability safeguards and strong product judgment. This is not a pure research role. It is a build-and-ship role.
What Youll Own
- Build and ship creator-facing and visitor-facing AI experiences end-to-end from prototype through production.
- Design multi-agent workflows that combine prompting tool use retrieval memory/state orchestration and human-in-the-loop controls where appropriate.
- Create eval suites regression harnesses and quality metrics so AI quality improves deliberately rather than by anecdote.
- Partner closely with product design data and trust teams to translate ambiguous user problems into simple high-value experiences.
- Optimize latency reliability cost and safety so AI features are fast dependable and viable at scale.
- Turn production feedback support signals and behavioral data into model prompt policy and product improvements.
Who Were Looking For
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping production systems end-to-end.
- Hands-on experience building LLM-powered products agents chat systems RAG workflows or similar AI experiences.
- Experience building evals for AI output quality harnessing.
- Strong product sense: you can identify the real user problem simplify the solution and make practical trade-offs around effort scope and quality.
- Ability to frequently weigh trade-offs and understand the benefits of keeping systems architecture simple.
- Good judgment on safety trust privacy abuse and failure modes in AI systems.
- Strong communicator who collaborates well with cross-functional partners and explains trade-offs clearly.
Linktree is committed to providing a fair and competitive compensation package including cash equity and benefits. The base salary offered for this role is targeted at $240000-$250000 for roles based in Los Angeles. Final offers depend on multiple factors including location experience expertise and role scope and may vary from the range listed.
P.S. If you dont tick every box in this listing please dont rule yourself out. We take pride in inclusion and hiring incredible human beings with great potential over ticking boxes so if this role resonates with you hit that apply button!
Our Story
Were on a mission to empower anyone to curate grow and monetize their digital universe. We created the link in bio category and were just getting started. From creators artists and entrepreneurs to global brands were redefining how people connect with their communities showcase their content and promote products all in one link.
Today a community of 70 million use Linktree including icons like Adidas TikTok the UN Environmental Program The NFL Manchester United World Central Kitchen Sabrina Carpenter Olivia Rodrigo and Selena Gomez. With 48000 new accounts created every day Linktree is the fastest-growing leader in our space.
Weve teamed up with some of the worlds biggest platforms including TikTok Snap YouTube GoFundMe Spotify Google Stripe Reddit Laylo and Kajabi to unify Linkers digital spaces and we partner with retail brands Amazon Nike Nordstrom Target Sephora Vuori and more to share products they love.
Were a tight-knit passionate team building best-in-class tools that make online presence simple powerful and yours. If youre excited by the idea of shaping a new category setting the standard and making space for everyone to be seen and succeed wed love to meet you.
Where and How We Work
Were a global diverse team spread across continents with offices in London Los Angeles Melbourne and San Francisco. We work together flexibly and you can choose the setup that works best for you: fully remote or a hybrid mix of office and home.
We offer autonomy in how you structure your days and weeks. While were mindful of time zones and occasionally collaborate outside the typical 95 we lean into async work to keep things flowing. Our culture is family-friendly and Zoom-casual where kids pets and delivery drivers are welcome.
How well help you thrive
Our approach to benefits considers the whole person and the unique contributions they bring to Linktree. We want the experience at Linktree to be one that enables people to truly thrive so we can Go Further Together (one of our values). Some ways we support you:
- An annual wellbeing allowance to use on things like (but not limited to) fitness memberships development courses childcare travel charitable donations pet insurance home office set-up - the choice is yours!
- Employer contribution towards your retirement.
- Generous time off for vacation holidays parental leave volunteer time and other categories.
- Employee stock option program - we want each and every employee to share in the companys success.
At Linktree we believe in promoting a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds talents and experiences and were proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are creating an inclusive workplace where every individual feels valued respected and has equal opportunities to thrive. We aim to foster a diverse and inclusive environment where all team members have a sense of belonging. Linktree welcomes all people regardless of sex gender identity race ethnicity disability pregnancy age or other lived experience. If you require accommodations to fully participate in our opportunities please dont hesitate to reach us at your needs are important to us.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
