Staff Applied AI Engineer

decircle  ·  via Backpacker Job Board
💰 $250,000 - $300,000/yr 🌎 Remote 📍 Remote, California

Job Description:

  • Build and ship production AI agents for Future’s Health Coach product
  • Develop tool-calling LLMs, structured outputs, parallel API orchestration, and streaming AI features
  • Support coach matching and clinical-leaning guidance for sleep, nutrition, and fitness
  • Own the development loop from prototyping through Langfuse evaluations, deployment, trace monitoring, and iteration
  • Improve reliability, latency, and cost through prompt caching, token budgets, retries, and observability
  • Write agent tools and Pydantic-validated integrations in an EPD pod

Requirements:

  • 4–10 years of experience
  • Shipped LLM agents to production
  • Strong big-tech background, ideally moved to startups or founded a company
  • Python and async Python
  • LangChain/LangGraph
  • Pydantic
  • Langfuse
  • AWS/Bedrock
  • Independent in a beta-stage environment
  • US citizen or Green Card holder; visas are not supported

Benefits:

  • Competitive equity
  • Fully remote work in US time zones
  • Optional anchor weeks at Brentwood LA HQ