Senior Software Engineer - Ai Engineering

mercury.design

Remote
Us employees (any location): $166,600 - $218,700; ...
Remote
Backend development experience
Llm-powered systems
Ai deployments tradeoffs
The role exists to change how frontier AI users operate, moving from silos to shared infrastructure, context, and capability to create a multiplier effect within Mercury

Job Summary

  • The role exists to change how frontier AI users operate, moving from silos to shared infrastructure, context, and capability to create a multiplier effect within Mercury.
  • Responsibilities include extending and scaling the internal AI platform, strengthening the shared company knowledge layer, and enabling faster prototyping and iteration across the company.
  • The ideal candidate has 5+ years of backend development experience, hands-on experience building LLM-powered systems, and understands the real tradeoffs in AI deployments.

Matching Summary

The role exists to change how frontier AI users operate, moving from silos to shared infrastructure, context, and capability to create a multiplier effect within Mercury.

Salary

US employees (any location): $166,600 - $218,700; Canadian employees (any location): CAD 157,400 - 206,650; Benefits: Not specified

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • backend development experience
  • LLM-powered systems
  • AI deployments tradeoffs
  • platform engineering
  • infrastructure
  • developer tooling

Nice-to-have

  • high-agency and self-directed
  • clear communication across audiences
  • navigating without a map

Key Requirements

  • 5+ years backend development experience
  • Hands-on LLM-powered systems experience
  • Shipped at least one LLM system to production
  • Fluent across programming languages

Work Rights

Not specified

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