Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI (IC)

The role

You will build an agent platform and internal tools to operationalize AI across the software development lifecycle. You will design primitives like orchestration and evaluation harnesses while shipping applied AI features from prototype to production.

What you will do

• Build the agent platform and tooling
• Design and implement primitives like orchestration, tool calling, and evaluation harnesses
• Support patterns like retrieval-augmented generation and production inference workflows
• Embed AI into day-to-day engineering workflows
• Own the judgment call of what to delegate to agents versus human work
• Diagnose agent behavior from traces
• Ship applied AI features end-to-end from prototype to production
• Partner with product, design, and data/ML stakeholders
• Assess AI adoption and identify bottlenecks across teams
• Mentor peers and establish engineering standards

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including shipping production systems
• Direct experience on an Applied AI / product AI team building LLM- or ML-powered features
• Demonstrated judgment in agent-driven development
• Strong backend/system design skills including APIs, distributed systems, queues/workflows, observability, and performance
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and driving outcomes with cross-functional partners

Nice to have

• Experience building platform capabilities for other engineers
• Practical experience with embeddings, search/retrieval, evaluation methodologies, and model monitoring
• Experience building AI-powered tooling/products like agents and assistants at scale
• Familiarity with inference constraints, vendor/model tradeoffs, and deployment patterns

Benefits

• Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Annual bonus
• Flexible PTO
• 16-week paid parental leave
• Disability benefits
• Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules
• Company-wide in-person events and team outings
• Lifestyle enhancement program
• Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options)
• Annual performance reviews

Before you apply

• You must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
• Unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time

About the company

PrizePicks is a fast-growing sports company and a leading platform for Daily Fantasy Sports. The team consists of over 550 employees.