Staff AI Engineer
Honeycomb.io
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $259,300 - $305,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
GoPythonRubyTypeScript
About the role
- Own end-to-end implementation of AI-powered product features, from prototypes to production. Mentor other engineers on the team, leveling up the team as a whole. Collaborate across the organization to support shipping these features to production.
- Handle prompt engineering, model tuning, and evaluation strategies to improve reliability and UX.
- Collaborate with product and design partners in defining and scoping AI-driven experiences.
- Teach best practices for working with LLMs, including prompt design and evaluation methodologies.
- Learn deeply about Honeycomb’s workflows and user problems to build truly helpful AI features.
- Iterate through fast feedback loops, experimentation, and sharing both wins and failures.
Requirements
- Ideally 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years building ML/AI-powered features in production.
- Proven experience shipping production AI/GenAI features end-to-end.
- Strong background as a Staff-level product software engineer (not data science or ML-research-only).
- Experience iteratively improving GenAI-powered features based on quantitative and qualitative signals.
- Ability to design, run, and evaluate experiments for AI features.
- Prior on-call experience supporting production systems.
- Deep expertise in LLMs, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and evaluation methods.
- Proficiency in backend development using Python, Go, Ruby, TypeScript or a similar language.
- Strong cross-functional skills and a track record of collaborating closely with PMs and designers.
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and driving clarity in fast-paced environments.
- Bonus: Experience with observability tools, production infrastructure, or public contributions to the AI community.
Benefits
- A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
- It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience
- Time to recharge - Unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical
- A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)
- Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
- Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional coverage available for dependents
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
- Annual development allowance
- And much more...
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
AI-powered featuresML/AI developmentprompt engineeringmodel tuningevaluation strategiesbackend developmentPythonGoRubyTypeScript
Soft skills
mentoringcollaborationiterative improvementexperiment designproblem-solvingcross-functional collaborationnavigating ambiguitydriving clarity