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Staff Software Engineer (Applied AI)

san francisco, ca • Posted 4 days ago
Remote Full Time IT & Technology

We’re looking for a driven, creative engineer who is excited about the challenge of leveraging LLMs to build exceptionally innovative product experiences

You’ll join us at the frontier of AI product development, developing industry-leading approaches to solve important customer problems

Engineers at Lightfield own and drive projects from inception to impact, working with teammates of all functions along the way

You’ll also push our company’s overall product and technical vision as we learn from each project and continue to scale

Collaborate with product leaders to identify customer problems, scope requirements, and implement LLM-powered solutions

Apply LLMs as reasoning engines to build domain-specific AI assistants

Create and enhance prompts, applying techniques like few-shot learning and chain-of-thought

Develop and optimize end-to-end RAG pipelines and agent architectures to leverage public and proprietary data

Improve end-to-end AI agent quality (e.g. relevance, fidelity, latency) via empirical evaluation and iteration

Build and enhance systems and tools that enable high-velocity experimentation (e.g. LLM-powered automated evaluation) and customized product experiences

Stay at the forefront of AI research and incorporate state-of-the-art techniques

Shape technical direction and best practices for AI application development at Lightfield

Help build a world-class engineering team by recruiting and mentoring teammates

Benefits

  • Meaningful early equity
  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • 3 weeks of PTO
  • 11 paid company holidays + we enjoy a winter holiday break
  • Regular team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats
  • 3 months of paid family leave
  • Wednesdays work from home
  • 401k plan
  • Other perks include: commuter and lunch stipend

You are passionate about keeping up with and exploring the latest advancements in LLMs and LLMOps (including open source solutions, e.g. LangChain)

You enjoy strategically balancing ambitious vision with frequent delivery of user value

You have a degree in Computer Science or a related field, with a strong foundation in software engineering principles

You are familiar with AI and ML concepts (e.g. training, evaluation techniques)

You have the ability to ramp up quickly on a tech stack that features TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Apollo GraphQL, and Aurora PostgreSQL

You can drive a project with an ambiguous problem independently

You are able to clearly communicate your reasoning and decisions to your teammates (technical and nontechnical) at an appropriate altitude of detail

You are excited to develop new best practices in an emerging domain

You have explored working with LLMs, either through professional projects or personal experimentation

You are energized by building software experiences customers will use directly and depend on to do their jobs successfully

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