Senior Software Engineer, Ai Platforms And Products

Wirecutter Inc

New York, NY, United States
Base: $140,000 - $160,000; bonus/equity: not speci...
On-site
Backend services and apis
Distributed systems at scale
Large language models (llms)
The New AI Products and Platforms mission is a central hub for new, high-ambition AI opportunities and services at The Times, enabling teams across the company to build, deploy, and manage applications that use large language models (LLMs)

Job Summary

  • The New AI Products and Platforms mission is a central hub for new, high-ambition AI opportunities and services at The Times, enabling teams across the company to build, deploy, and manage applications that use large language models (LLMs).
  • Responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining scalable and reliable backend services and APIs for a central platform, taking ownership of core platform components, and building orchestration layers for multi-step AI workflows.
  • The annual base pay range for this role is between $140,000 and $160,000 USD, with benefits potentially including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and professional development programs.

Matching Summary

The New AI Products and Platforms mission is a central hub for new, high-ambition AI opportunities and services at The Times, enabling teams across the company to build, deploy, and manage applications that use large language models (LLMs).

Salary

Base: $140,000 - $160,000; Bonus/Equity: Not specified; Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, professional development

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • backend services and APIs
  • distributed systems at scale
  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
  • agentic workflows
  • high-quality, maintainable code

Nice-to-have

  • MLOps experience
  • vector databases and embedding models
  • information retrieval systems
  • prompt engineering systems
  • containerization and orchestration
  • infrastructure as code
  • event-driven architectures

Key Requirements

  • 5+ years backend development experience
  • 5+ years Python or Go experience
  • 5+ years distributed systems and APIs experience
  • 1+ years LLM application experience

Work Rights

Not specified

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