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
















