You will report to the Executive Director of R&D.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement LLM-backed APIs - driving improvements to reach target outcomes through evaluation, grounding and fine-tuning best practices.
- Deploy reliable services within cloud environments (such as GCP or AWS) to support high-traffic LLM applications.
- Manage the transition of features from experimental prototypes to stable production systems in a fast-paced environment with evolving requirements.
- Collaborate with designers, product managers and stakeholders to translate detailed requirements into technical tasks, providing accurate estimates and progress updates.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation to facilitate feature handoff and future maintenance.
- Stay at the forefront of the evolving AI and LLM landscape, identifying and advocating for the use of new technologies and best practices.
- Demonstrate understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
Basic Qualifications:
You are comfortable building projects by yourself and enjoy collaboration with a larger team. You are both curious about and skeptical of new technologies. Youre excited to apply new tools, but aim to do so in service of solving important problems and making a difference for users. You take pride in your craft and understand the need to capture patterns and support future development.
- 5+ years of professional software development or equivalent experience.
- Proficiency with Python and TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Professional experience architecting and shipping applications that use LLMs. Experience with multi-step chaining and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Strong understanding of LLM evaluations. Experience refining products using instrumentation, monitoring, and golden datasets to ensure accuracy and robustness.
- Experience in algorithmic and AI text processing (e.g. text segmentation, semantic chunking, restructuring).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience building reliable, scalable back-end services in cloud environments (e.g. GCP, AWS).
- Familiarity with AI orchestration and evaluation frameworks (e.g. AWS Step Functions, Google Cloud Workflows, Dagster, Braintrust).
- Experience building front-end user interfaces for LLM-backed products.
To apply, please provide work samples (code snippets, URLs, project summaries) describing your most relevant work for this position and how it expresses your approach to software engineering.
This is a temporary position that is expected to last through November 2027.
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Additional Compensation and Benefits:
For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.
For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process
The hourly rate of base pay for this role is:
$79.67-$90.11 USD
Candidate Use of GenAI Tools:
Were excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.
If youre an engineering candidate, well let you know what specific GenAI tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.
