Staff Engineer, Applied AI

Plounérin, Brittany, France

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$274,800 – $412,200Compensation

Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

UnknownVisa

SaaS, Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Business SoftwareIndustries

Requirements

Candidates should have proven engineering impact in complex, cloud-based systems and at least 2 years of hands-on experience with large language models in production, including user-facing products leveraging agent architectures. Familiarity with transformer networks and attention mechanisms is required, along with direct experience deploying LLM evaluation frameworks and building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Nuanced perspectives and experience with indexing/chunking strategies, semantic search, and vector databases are also necessary. Many strong candidates have 10+ years of experience, and the ability to lead through hands-on contribution is essential.

Responsibilities

The Staff Applied AI Engineer will shape how AI agents plan, reason, remember, and safely take action across thousands of integrations with enterprise-grade reliability. This role involves working on reasoning, integrations, and the user interface for natural language delegation. Responsibilities include shipping systems that thousands of teams rely on, making agentic automation useful at scale, and addressing hard problems such as planning & tool selection, grounding & evals, safety & governance, memory models, and latency/cost tradeoffs at production scale. The engineer will also explore new AI developments, push the boundaries of agentic ability and UX, and ensure reliability for customer-dependent systems.

Skills

Applied AI

AI Agents

Automation

Reasoning

Planning

Tool Selection

Grounding

Evaluation

Safety

Governance

Memory Models

Latency

Natural Language Processing

API Integrations

System Design

Software Engineering

Machine Learning

Zapier

Automation platform for web application workflows

About Zapier

Zapier connects various web applications to help users automate their workflows and improve productivity. It allows users to create 'Zaps,' which are automated workflows that link different apps to carry out specific tasks without needing technical skills. This platform is particularly beneficial for small to medium-sized businesses and individual professionals who want to save time on repetitive tasks. Unlike many competitors, Zapier offers a user-friendly interface that makes it easy for anyone to set up automations. The company operates on a subscription model, providing different pricing tiers based on the number of Zaps and tasks a user requires, with the goal of making automation accessible to a wider audience.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters

2011Year Founded

$1.3MTotal Funding

SEEDCompany Stage

Consumer Software, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries

1,001-5,000Employees