Staff AI Engineer

The role

You will lead the vision and execution of data platforms and LLM-powered products. You will own architectural decisions across data pipelines, model integration, deployment, and evals to serve Fortune 500 customers.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end architecture for data platforms and pipelines
• Incrementally scale pipelines and systems
• Translate business goals into actionable data products
• Establish and enforce engineering standards
• Up-level the org through architecture reviews, mentoring, and documentation
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with software engineers, devops, product, and design
• Ship meaningful experiments and prototype data/ML capabilities

Required qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating production data systems
• Experience leading cross-cutting architectural changes
• Experience deploying LLMs in real-world scenarios at scale
• Deep experience with Python and modern service architectures
• Strong system design and data modeling fundamentals
• Extensive experience with training and deploying machine learning models, particularly within the NLP/LLM domain
• Fluency in operational maturity including SLOs, on-call/incident practices, and observability
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Experience with data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model evaluation techniques
• Excellent communication skills
• Demonstrated leadership experience

Nice to have

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure

Benefits

• Unique opportunity to join on the ground floor of a fast-moving startup
• Tackle challenging and abstract problems
• Immediate ownership and impact
• Significant career growth upside

About the company

Bluefish is an AI marketing platform for the Fortune 500 building tools to help brands engage consumers on an AI-driven internet. The team consists of mar-tech industry veterans and is a globally distributed team.