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 drive outcomes for Fortune 500 customers.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end architecture for data platforms and pipelines including scraping, extraction, transformation, storage, and ML/LLM integration.
• Scale pipelines and systems using safe rollout plans and data-quality metrics.
• Translate business goals into actionable data products and draft RFCs.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards for testing, evals, observability, and security.
• Up-level the organization through architecture reviews, documentation, and mentoring Senior Engineers.
• Define how AI engineers work cross-functionally with software engineers, devops, product managers, and designers.
• Prototype data and ML capabilities and evaluate feasibility and ROI.
• Partner with full-stack engineers, product, design, and devops to deliver customer outcomes.

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 to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated leadership experience to guide and inspire a team.

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 through AI marketing experiences. The team consists of mar-tech industry veterans and is a globally distributed team with operations in New York City and engineering in Europe and New York.