Applied AI Engineer
At a glance
Mid-level AI Engineering role at Mintlify. San Francisco · full-time · $130,000–$200,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Design and ship customer-facing AI features, covering agent coordination, tool use, interfaces and supporting backend systems
- Build agents that handle complex context, use tools, recover from errors and finish tasks that take time
- Create evaluations, inspect where agents fail, then improve prompts, context, models, tools and product flows
- Develop APIs, data pipelines, interfaces and production infrastructure to bring prototypes into polished products
What you bring
- At least four years of professional software development experience
- Deep hands-on experience putting language-model systems into production, including agents, retrieval, prompting and structured outputs
- You can own production software across frontend, backend, APIs, databases and infrastructure
- You have taken complex projects from early tests to production and can shape solutions without relying on a detailed spec
Who this fits
This mid-level role suits a product-minded engineer who wants to own customer-facing AI work from experiments through production. You’ll also talk with customers, help set technical direction and mentor other engineers. The role is based in San Francisco.
From the employer
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.
Small team, huge impact: We recently passed 65 employees and raised a $45 million Series B led by A16Z and Salesforce Ventures. Each new hire has a huge impact on shaping the company's trajectory.
Culture of slope over y-intercept: We value learning velocity, grit, and unapologetically unique personalities.
We grew in value faster than headcount and we’re looking to align the two quickly.
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 an 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
Building AI products end to end: Designing and shipping customer-facing AI experiences, from agent orchestration and tool use to the interfaces and backend systems that support them
Developing reliable agents: Building agent loops that reason over complex context, call tools, recover from failures, and complete long-running tasks
Evaluating and improving performance: Creating evals, analyze failures, and hill-climb on prompts, context, models, tools, and product flows
Shipping across the stack: Building the APIs, data pipelines, interfaces, and production infrastructure needed to turn promising prototypes into polished products
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
You’ll solve technically ambitious product problems alongside a team that values craft, speed, and thoughtful execution. Here’s a taste of what the team has built:
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
Commute stipend to help get you to and from work
Free lunch and dinners
Annual team offsite (previously went to Alaska, Hawaii, Jackson Hole)