Lead Ai Engineer

Klaviyo

Palo Alto, CA, United States
On-site
Scalable backend systems
Ai serving systems
Generative & agentic ai in production
As a Lead AI Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and building scalable backend systems and user experiences that power our AI products and agentic solutions

Job Summary

  • As a Lead AI Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and building scalable backend systems and user experiences that power our AI products and agentic solutions.
  • You will own complex services end-to-end, contribute to architecture for high-impact AI features, and partner closely with product managers, machine learning engineers, and data scientists.
  • This is a hands-on, backend-heavy role with opportunities to influence architecture, async processing pipelines, distributed systems, and more.

Matching Summary

As a Lead AI Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and building scalable backend systems and user experiences that power our AI products and agentic solutions.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • scalable backend systems
  • AI serving systems
  • generative & agentic AI in production
  • Python and data tooling
  • cloud-native environments
  • evaluation and quality-minded

Nice-to-have

  • training and deploying ML models
  • building shared AI/ML platforms
  • marketing tech or e-commerce background

Key Requirements

  • 5-7+ years professional software engineering experience
  • Strong distributed systems and async background
  • Experience with AWS and Kubernetes
  • Experience with human/automated evals for AI systems

Work Rights

Not specified

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