Senior Applied AI Engineer

Mintlify

$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of professional software development experience
  • Deep experience with production systems using language models
  • Comfortable owning full stack software including frontend and backend
  • Led complex projects from experimentation to production
  • Strong product intuition and emphasis on user-centered design
  • Eager to engage directly with customers to inform product development
  • Experience mentoring and sharing knowledge with engineering teams

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end development of AI products
  • Build reliable AI agent systems that can handle complex contexts
  • Drive evaluation and iteration of AI models and tools
  • Transform prototypes into robust, scalable products
  • Shape product direction and engineering strategies across the tech stack

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity
  • 20 days paid time off annually
  • 401k or RRSP options
  • $420/month wellness stipend
  • 100% coverage for health, dental, and vision
  • Free transportation to and from work
  • Complimentary lunch and dinner options
  • Annual team offsite events
Full Job Description

We\'re looking for product-minded engineers to build the AI experiences behind Mintlify. You\'ll combine strong full-stack engineering with applied AI expertise to create agents that reliably solve real customer problems.

As a Senior Applied AI Engineer, you\'ll take ownership of complex AI products from early experimentation through production. You\'ll help define technical direction, establish how we evaluate and improve agent performance, and raise the quality of both our AI products and engineering practices.

What you\'ll work on here
  • Leading AI products end to end: Architecting and shipping customer-facing AI experiences, from agent orchestration and tool use to the interfaces and backend systems that support them
  • Building reliable agent systems: Developing agent loops that reason over complex context, call tools, recover from failures, and complete long-running tasks
  • Driving evaluation and iteration: Defining evals, build feedback loops, analyze failures, and systematically hill-climb on prompts, context, models, tools, and product flows
  • Turning prototypes into products: Making thoughtful decisions about architecture, latency, cost, observability, and user experience to operate AI systems reliably at scale
  • Shaping product direction and engineering approaches across the stack
What you bring to the table
  • You have at least 4 years of professional software development experience
  • You possess deep experience building production systems with language models, including agent loops, tool use, retrieval, prompting, and structured outputs
  • You are comfortable owning production software across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure
  • You have led complex projects from experimentation through production and thrive when defining solutions rather than following a spec
  • You have strong product intuition and care about the \"why\" as much as the \"how\" when building user-facing software
  • You\'re eager to talk directly with customers and use those insights to shape what we build
  • You have experience mentoring other engineers, sharing technical knowledge, and helping teammates grow
Why you should join our engineering team
  • You\'ll solve technically ambitious product problems alongside a team that values craft, speed, and thoughtful execution. Here\'s a taste of what the team has built:
    • How we built a virtual filesystem for our Assistant
    • Introducing the collaborative editor built for teams and agents
    • Docs URL Benchmark: Markdown & llms.txt > HTML
  • Engineers here are product builders with high agency; you\'ll drive change and have a voice in strategic decisions
  • You\'ll have plenty of heads-down builder time on a small-but-mighty team where the best ideas win
  • We\'ll find the intersection between what excites you and business priorities. You\'ll own projects, ship, and see immediate impact
Company Benefits:
  • Competitive compensation and equity
  • 20 days paid time off every year
  • 401k or RRSP
  • $420/month wellness stipend
  • 100% coverage for Health, dental, vision
  • Free Ubers to and from work
  • Free lunch and dinners
  • Annual team offsite (previously went to Alaska, Hawaii)

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