Staff Applied AI Engineer

Posted 23hrs ago

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Staff Applied AI Engineer owning business-domain AI portfolios at Collectors, a collectibles authentication, grading, and trading technology company. Building production agents and reusable application patterns.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the AI opportunity across an entire business domain, including workflow mapping, opportunity sizing, prioritization, and roadmap decisions
  • Build the riskiest and most technically demanding AI use cases from prototype through production, adoption, and measured impact
  • Extract reusable connectors, evaluation harnesses, and workflow patterns from successful builds
  • Define success metrics before building and report cumulative portfolio value to domain leadership
  • Design agents with traces, evaluations, and human-in-the-loop gates to support evidence-based autonomy
  • Use Claude, OpenAI, and the orchestration platform daily to inform platform choices
  • Build trust with function leaders, secure sponsorship, and manage competing priorities
  • Review designs and code, unblock engineers, interview candidates, and mentor builders
  • Design and implement production-grade application layers around agents and AI workflows
  • Report to the Head of Applied AI

Requirements:

  • Proven ownership of a business domain, program, or product area with roadmap responsibility
  • Multiple end-to-end agentic or AI-powered solutions deployed to real users in more than one context
  • Daily, fluent use of Claude, OpenAI, or similar AI models
  • Strong knowledge of AI frameworks, evaluations, harnesses, and orchestration
  • Ability to translate business problems into scoped, sequenced software portfolios
  • Ability to architect and independently build agent systems
  • Sound build-versus-reuse judgment
  • Principal-level design review capability
  • Hands-on experience building and shipping production applications, preferably full-stack
  • Frontend and backend application engineering proficiency
  • Experience with frontend APIs, state, latency, reliability, security, and scalability
  • Outcome-focused use of metrics and business value
  • Track record of improving other engineers through review, mentorship, patterns, or tooling
  • Clear communication with operators, engineers, and executives
  • Active tracking of current AI models, tools, and techniques
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States (validated through e-Verify)

Benefits:

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
  • Fertility assistance
  • Commuter assistance
  • Educational assistance benefits
  • Competitive 401k matching plan
  • Flexible time-off
  • Ten company paid holidays
  • Discounts on select grading services for approved submissions
  • Flexible schedules and varying shifts
  • Celebrations, holiday events, and team building activities