Senior LLM Engineer, R&D

The role

You will develop applications using Large Language Models to serve the mission and journalistic standards of The New York Times. You will design LLM-backed APIs, deploy services in cloud environments, and transition features from prototypes to production.

What you will do

• Design and implement LLM-backed APIs
• Deploy reliable services within cloud environments
• Manage the transition of features from experimental prototypes to stable production systems
• Collaborate with designers, product managers and stakeholders
• Maintain comprehensive documentation
• Stay at the forefront of the evolving AI and LLM landscape
• Demonstrate understanding of journalistic independence and commitment to the mission

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development or equivalent experience
• Proficiency with Python and TypeScript/JavaScript
• Professional experience architecting and shipping applications that use LLMs
• Experience with multi-step chaining and human-in-the-loop workflows
• Strong understanding of LLM evaluations
• Experience refining products using instrumentation, monitoring, and golden datasets
• Experience in algorithmic and AI text processing

Nice to have

• Experience building reliable, scalable back-end services in cloud environments (e.g. GCP, AWS)
• Familiarity with AI orchestration and evaluation frameworks (e.g. AWS Step Functions, Google Cloud Workflows, Dagster, Braintrust)
• Experience building front-end user interfaces for LLM-backed products

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision benefits
• Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
• company-matching 401(k) plan
• employee stock purchase plan
• paid vacation
• paid sick days
• paid parental leave
• tuition reimbursement
• professional development programs

Before you apply

• provide work samples (code snippets, URLs, project summaries) describing your most relevant work
• submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process

About the company

Research & Development at The New York Times explores how emerging technologies can be applied in service of journalism. The team explores new opportunities that emerging technologies may provide the New York Times and its commercial and strategic goals.