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Senior Applied AI Engineer

Join Mintlify as a Senior Applied AI Engineer to lead the development of AI products that solve real customer problems.

Location
San Francisco
Compensation
Not disclosed
Level
senior
Type
full time

Posted by employer 1 month ago

First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago

Last verified on the company career page 6 days ago

What you'll build

  • Architecting and shipping customer-facing AI experiences
  • Developing agent loops that reason over complex context
  • Defining evals and building feedback loops
  • Making decisions about architecture and user experience
  • Shaping product direction and engineering approaches

Must have

  • 4+ years of professional software development experience
  • Deep experience building production systems with language models
  • Comfortable owning production software across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure
  • Experience leading complex projects from experimentation through production
  • Strong product intuition
  • Experience mentoring other engineers

AI in the day-to-day

You’ll combine strong full-stack engineering with applied AI expertise to create agents that reliably solve real customer problems.

Requirements

Experience
4+ years

Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.

Benefits

Equity/Stock Options Paid Time Off Free lunch and dinners Wellness Stipend 401k or RRSP Health Insurance

Joblaze summary

In the role of Senior Applied AI Engineer at Mintlify, the individual will lead the development of AI products, overseeing everything from initial experimentation to production deployment. Key skills include extensive experience with language models and full-stack development, as well as a strong understanding of product design and user experience. This position is ideal for someone with at least four years of software development experience who enjoys taking ownership of complex projects and mentoring others. Mintlify's small team structure allows for significant impact and collaboration on innovative AI solutions.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 11, 2026. Last confirmed on Mintlify's careers page October 29, 2026.
  • AI/ML appears in 40.5% of 546 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States; Language Models appears in 0.2% of 546 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States.

Quick facts

How much experience is required?
At least 4 years of relevant experience for this Senior Applied AI Engineer role.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, APIs, Backend, Frontend, Language Models, databases.
What seniority level is this role?
Mintlify targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Senior Applied AI Engineer role at Mintlify.

From the original posting

Why Mintlify?

We're on a mission to empower builders.

  • Massive reach: Our docs platform serves 100 million+ developers every year and powers documentation for 20,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Microsoft, PayPal, Spotify, Coinbase, X, and over 20% of the last YC batch.

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

  • 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 with Employer Match

  • monthly wellness stipend

  • 100% employee coverage for Health, Dental, Vision

  • Free lunch and dinners

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