JUUL Labs

Enterprise AI Systems Engineer

JUUL Labs$150K — $187K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in software, cloud, or platform engineering, with a focus on LLM-based systems.
  • Experience managing enterprise SaaS or AI platforms at scale.
  • Knowledge of commercial and open-weight LLMs, including prompt engineering.
  • Familiar with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and gateway technologies.
  • Expertise in AWS and GCP architectures and managed AI services.
  • Proficient in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript for scripting and tooling.
  • Understanding of data governance in AI applications, including security protocols.

Responsibilities

  • Own and lead the development and administration of AI platforms within the organization.
  • Manage user access, configurations, and security for multiple platforms.
  • Create valuable content that enhances platform utility, driving adoption among users.
  • Monitor and report on platform usage and cost management for effective resource allocation.
  • Ensure high availability of platforms, tackling issues as they arise.
  • Develop and maintain the infrastructure that connects platforms to internal systems securely.
  • Implement agentic workflows and automation for internal tools and APIs.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for career growth with goal-setting support.
  • Collaborative and supportive team environment.
  • Equity and performance bonuses for all employees.
  • Cell phone and commuting benefits along with JUUL product discounts.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance along with wellness programs.
  • 401(k) plan with matching contributions.
  • Discretionary performance bonuses twice a year.
Full Job Description
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • You own these platforms end to end. What you build gets used across the whole company, and you decide how AI runs here rather than inheriting someone else's design.
  • Administer our enterprise Claude, Gemini, OpenRouter, Cursor and NotebookLM tenants. User provisioning, groups and roles, workspace configuration, and tenant security settings.
  • Build and maintain the content that makes those platforms useful: skills, prompts, projects, connectors, and the documentation behind them. Drive adoption across 250 users and growing.
  • Track consumption and spend across all three platforms. Report on usage, find idle seats, and support the business-unit chargeback model.
  • Keep the platforms running. Availability monitoring, feature rollouts, user issue triage, and escalation ownership when something breaks.
  • Build and operate the MCP servers and gateways that connect these platforms to internal systems, with least-privilege access and full audit logging.
  • Run the LLM gateway that centralizes routing, authentication, rate limiting, logging, and policy enforcement across model providers.
  • Choose the right model for each workload, commercial or open-weight, based on cost, latency, capability, and how sensitive the data is.
  • Build agentic workflows and automations against internal APIs and tools, with the evaluation and guardrails to keep them predictable.
  • Architect and run AI workloads on AWS and GCP: compute, networking, IAM, secrets management, private connectivity, Bedrock, and Vertex AI.
  • Own the code in GitHub and write most of it yourself, mostly Python and TypeScript. Branch protection, access control, secret scanning, and Actions pipelines.
  • Instrument the stack for cost, performance, and security telemetry, and build the reporting that leadership and finance rely on.
  • Enforce data handling, retention, and access policy alongside Cybersecurity and AI Governance, and write the runbooks and standards behind it.
  • Perform related duties as assigned, within your scope of practice

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
  • 5+ years in software, cloud, or platform engineering, including recent hands-on work building and running LLM-based systems.
  • Experience administering an enterprise SaaS or AI tenant at scale: access management, configuration, cost control, and adoption.
  • Working knowledge of both commercial and open-weight LLMs, including prompt engineering, evaluation, retrieval, and agentic patterns.
  • Hands-on with Model Context Protocol (MCP), MCP gateways, or LLM gateways. Comparable API integration and middleware experience counts.
  • AWS and GCP architecture, including IAM, networking, secrets management, and managed AI services.
  • GitHub and standard engineering discipline: version control, code review, testing, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
  • Strong Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript for building integrations, automations, and internal tooling.
  • Security and data governance fundamentals applied to AI work: least privilege, data classification, DLP, and auditability.
  • Able to explain technical work to executives, finance, and people who do not work in technology.
  • Nice to have: Vertex AI or Amazon Bedrock, self-hosted open-weight model deployment, vector databases and RAG pipelines, Splunk or another SIEM, and cloud cost management.

EDUCATION:
  • Preferred, bachelor degree in applicable field or relevant work experience

JUUL LABS PERKS & BENEFITS:
  • A place to grow your career. We'll help you set big goals - and exceed them
  • People. Work with talented, committed and supportive teammates
  • Equity and performance bonuses. Every employee is a stakeholder in our success
  • Cell phone subsidy, commuter benefits and discounts on JUUL products
  • Excellent medical, dental and vision, disability, and life insurance, plus family support, wellness, legal, and employee assistance program benefits
  • 401(k) plan with company matching
  • Plus biannual discretionary performance bonuses

SALARY RANGES:
Salary varies by role, level and location, and is dependent on the cost of labor in a given
geographic region among other factors. These ranges may be modified at any time.

LOCATIONS:
Tier 1 Locations: Greater New York City, and San Francisco Bay Area
Tier 2 Locations: Greater Boston, Washington DC Metropolitan Area, Seattle/Tacoma,
Greater Sacramento, Southern California (Los Angeles/OC/San Diego, Riverside and Imperial counties)
Tier 3 Locations: Rest of New England, NY Capital District, Rest of New Jersey, Greater
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Delaware, Rest of Maryland, Rest of Virginia, North Carolina,
Atlanta, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-WPB, Chicagoland, Dallas, Houston, Austin,
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Colorado, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City NV., Portland Ore./Vancouver
Wash., Rest of California, Hawaii
Tier 4 Locations: Rest of US including Alaska and Puerto Rico

Tier 1 Range:

$165,000-$206,000 USD

Tier 2 Range:

$150,000-$187,000 USD

Tier 3 Range:

$141,000-$176,000 USD

Tier 4 Range:

$126,000-$157,000 USD

About JUUL Labs

JUUL Labs is a San Francisco-based electronic cigarette company. It was founded in 2017 by James Monsees and Adam Bowen. The company is known for its e-cigarette device, JUUL, which uses nicotine salts derived from tobacco leaves to provide an experience similar to traditional cigarettes. JUUL has become popular among young people, leading to concerns about nicotine addiction and health risks. The company has faced criticism for its marketing practices and has been the subject of regulatory scrutiny.
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2,250 employees
Industry
Founded
2015

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