Staff AI Engineer

Shipt

Staff AI Engineer at Shipt building product features powered by modern AI models. Collaborating with teams to innovate customer-facing capabilities utilizing AI tools and strong engineering practices.

Posted 5/31/2026full-timeBirmingham • Alabama, California, Minnesota • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $95,800 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoGRPCJavaScriptKafkaNext.jsPostgresReactRedisSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build & Integrate: Design and implement full-stack features that utilize LLMs to solve user problems.
Streaming Interfaces: Build low-latency interfaces that stream text to the client.
Roadmap Ownership: Leading a team of developers to build new features.
Write robust, high-performance Go code to orchestrate AI services.
Design and implement RESTful and gRPC APIs.
Collaborate on integrating Kafka and Redis to build asynchronous message processing pipelines.
Use AI coding assistants to accelerate code generation, testing, and documentation.
Critically evaluate and debug AI-generated code.
Refine system prompts and write automated evaluations for AI performance.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8–10 years of professional software engineering experience.
Practical experience building backend services or APIs in Go.
Proficiency with React and the Next.js ecosystem.
Experience integrating LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) into applications.
Familiarity with orchestration concepts (Google’s ADK, Vercel AI SDK, or custom orchestration).
Comfortable writing SQL queries and interacting with relational databases (Postgres preferred).
Experience with Git version control, CI/CD basics, and writing unit tests.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401k plan
Discretionary vacation for exempt team members
Paid holidays throughout the calendar year
Paid sick leave
Annual bonus eligibility
Restricted stock units potential based on role

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoRESTful APIsgRPC APIsReactNext.jsSQLKafkaRedisunit testingasynchronous message processing

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationcritical evaluationdebugging