Here at CB Insights, our AI engineers build robust AI-powered services and features that turn all kinds of data into high-value, actionable insights. This Senior AI Engineer role is on our primary AI product engineering team that focuses on integrating AI functionality across our platform, with a heavy emphasis on user-facing features. Data science and machine learning expertise are NOT required for the role.

About the team:

This is a high performing, foot on the gas team filled with senior and lead engineers that use the latest, most capable AI tech to continually push the envelope. We work fast, we ship often, and we’re typically same-day adopters of new frontier models.

We strongly value innovation, speed, work flexibility, independent problem solving, and the ability to rely on one another to get our respective work done. No egos, lots of respect, and trust.

Leveraging AI introduces many additional tradeoffs to balance, so in order to be successful you’ll need to have a strong intuitive sense of product value, time to goal, diminishing returns, and which tool is best for a given task.

Stack is primarily Go, Python, and Postgres.

Your Main Tasks:

• Develop AI-powered features and improve AI workflows and performance on a small Agile team.
• Mentor other engineers in AI best practices, particularly in prompt engineering and LLM integration.
• Consistently and frequently deliver solutions that leverage AI effectively, are well-engineered, maintainable and tested within the agreed-upon time frame.
• Participate in code reviews and sprint planning, help identify opportunities for AI integration, work through challenges and share knowledge with colleagues.
• Collaborate with the product team to understand business requirements and translate them into AI-powered solutions.

What You Bring to the Table:

• 3+ years professional experience in backend engineering in Go, Python, or similar
• Strong experience with prompt engineering and integrating LLMs into production systems
• Deep understanding of the capabilities and limitations of various AI models and approaches
• Experience with AI frameworks and tools, particularly those supporting advanced workflows and agent orchestration
• Familiarity with containerization, cloud deployment, and multi-service architectures
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to optimize AI performance, cost, and quality
• BS in Computer Science or similar work experience

You’ll be successful here if:

• You’re passionate about using AI as a powerful lever to drive value for users
• You can take a complex problem or goal, break it down, and devise and implement your own strategies for solving it
• Working alongside other high-performing engineers motivates you
• You have previous experience in a fast-paced startup environment
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills

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