Senior AI Engineer

Trump Media and Technology Group

$130K — $155K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience in a statically typed language (e.g. Go, Java, Kotlin, C#)
  • Proven track record of shipping production LLM-backed features
  • Hands-on experience with LLM serving stack including routing and token streaming
  • Experience building retrieval systems such as vector search and citation-backed answers
  • Ability to think in failure modes and build instrumentation accordingly
  • Strong API design skills with end-to-end service ownership
  • US-based and authorized to work in the United States

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with the platform architect and developers to implement AI features
  • Develop the core AI infrastructure for a large-scale platform
  • Shape engineering practices as the team expands
  • Design and build reliable retrieval systems for AI responses
  • Monitor and optimize the performance and cost of AI features
  • Ensure the quality and relevance of AI-generated answers through pragmatic evaluation
  • Own API design and deployment processes for seamless service integration

Benefits

  • Full-time remote work within the US
  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technology
  • Impact millions of users with your engineering efforts
  • Chance to shape the core of a rapidly growing social media platform
  • Welcoming environment that values free speech and innovation
Full Job Description
Senior AI Engineer

Remote - US only • Full-time

Are you passionate about building AI products people actually use, serving millions of users? Do you want to help lead the AI engineering effort at this country's fastest-growing social media company that champions free speech? You'll be building AI-based features into a platform serving millions of users.

About the Role

You'll work directly with the platform architect and other developers to bring deep, hands-on LLM-stack expertise: you've built these systems before, you know where they break, and you know what "good" looks like in production.

The work is greenfield. You won't be maintaining someone else's pipeline - you'll be standing up the core AI infrastructure for a platform with millions of active users, and shaping the engineering practices around it as the team grows.

What We're Looking For
  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience in a statically typed language (Go, Java, Kotlin, C#)
  • You've shipped production LLM-backed features - retrieval-augmented generation, streaming responses, tool use - and lived with them after launch
  • Hands-on experience with the LLM serving stack: routing across multiple model providers, failover, token streaming, and cost/usage metering
  • Experience building retrieval systems: vector search, embedding pipelines, context assembly, and citation-backed answers
  • You think in failure modes: hallucination, retrieval misses, provider outages, cost blowouts - and you build the instrumentation to catch them
  • Pragmatic about evaluation - you know how to measure whether AI answers are actually good (relevance, safety, source quality) with simple, repeatable tests, not just academic benchmarks
  • Strong API design instincts; comfortable owning a service end to end, from schema to deploy to on-call
  • US-based and authorized to work in the United States

Nice to Have
  • Go (strongly preferred)
  • Python
  • Experience with LLM gateways or serving infrastructure (LiteLLM, vLLM, TGI, or similar)
  • Vector databases (Qdrant, pgvector) and embedding pipelines
  • Fine-tuning open-weight models (LoRA or full fine-tunes) and the eval discipline that goes with it
  • Content moderation or safety tooling experience• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails or React/TypeScript (you'll integrate with both)

Our Stack

Go, Ruby on Rails, Python, React/TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ. Services deployed across multiple data centers.

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