AI Staff Engineer

Description

Responsibilities

Own the AI stack. Ship to production. Lead the team.

01. Build LLM-Powered Industrial AI  — Design and ship AI microservices on Anthropic Claude / AWS Bedrock with real agent orchestration, tool use, and RAG at enterprise scale.
02. Architect the AI Platform  — Set technical direction on prompt engineering, agent design, evaluation frameworks, and model integration.
03. Ship the Frontend Experience  — Own the React + TypeScript interface thousands of industrial engineers rely on daily.
04. Lead & Grow the Boston Team  — Mentor engineers, run code reviews, build the culture. You’re the technical anchor for a fast-scaling team.
05. Go Deep with Customers  — Present to plant managers and CTOs at the world’s largest manufacturers.
06. Push the Boundaries  — Expand capabilities, prototype what’s next for Physical AI.

We offer

Physical AI, Not Chatbots — your code controls assembly lines, filling machines, robotic arms.
Ground Floor in Boston — you’re not joining a team — you’re building one.
Global Enterprise Scale —Customers and Factories on every continent.
Equity in a Rocketship —We’re backed by top-tier VCs who don’t fund small ideas.
Built for Builders — flat hierarchy, fast decisions, flexible hours.

Basic Qualifications

5+ years shipping software — Python, React, TypeScript. You write code daily and it shows.
Hands-on LLM experience — tool use, function calling, RAG, prompt engineering, agent orchestration.
Experience with Anthropic Claude models or AWS Bedrock
Experience with AI agent frameworks — Griptape, LangChain, or similar orchestration libraries.
AWS-native — Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, EventBridge, API Gateway.
Leadership DNA — you’ve led small teams and know how to elevate everyone around you.
Startup velocity — you thrive in ambiguity, ship fast, learn faster.
Communication — explain transformers to a plant manager and factory automation to an investor.

Preferred Qualifications

MCP (Model Context Protocol) or emerging AI integration standards
Industrial background — Siemens, Rockwell, Beckhoff, CodeSys or IIoT/MES
GraphQL fluency — consuming and designing APIs
German language skills (our roots are in Germany)
E2E testing with Playwright