Mixpanel

Mixpanel

Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform

San Francisco, US (Hybrid) · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$226k-$306kDetected 5 days ago
Backend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewMachine LearningData AnalysisLLMsAgentic AIMLOpsAI OrchestrationA/B TestingAccessibilityHRISLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • We are looking for an experienced and driven Senior Software Engineer to join our AI Platform team.
  • You will be a leader and key contributor in a small, fast paced, newly formed team with a mandate to empower AI development across the company.
  • The AI Platform team is a newly formed team at the center of Mixpanel's AI-first analytics vision.

Responsibilities

  • Platform Architecture: Design and develop the core backend services, APIs, and microservices that enable product teams to easily and securely leverage AI models.
  • Agent Orchestration: Build scalable frameworks and tools to support multi-step agent workflows, including task decomposition, tool invocation, and persistent memory.
  • Evaluation & Reliability: Build robust evaluation systems to continuously measure reasoning quality, hallucination rates, and task success.
  • Collaboration: Partner with designers, product managers, and other engineers to build self-serve infrastructure that transforms our AI development cycle.
  • Leadership: Advocate for software engineering best practices, conduct thorough design and code reviews, and mentor junior engineers.
  • Experience building AI native systems, including iteratively improving and scaling them in production
  • Familiarity with techniques used to optimize AI agents: eval frameworks, agent tooling, vector search engines, context engineering, and prompt engineering.
  • A desire to be on the forefront of leveraging AI to drive product improvement, observability and product analytics at scale.
  • Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes.
  • One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • If you have questions about the specific range, your recruiter can share this information.

Nice to have

  • Excellent debugging and technical investigation skills

Compensation

  • The amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions.
  • Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level.
  • In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage.
  • Our salary ranges are determined by role and level and are benchmarked to the SF Bay Area Technology data cut released by Radford, a global compensation database.
  • To stay on top of market conditions, we refresh our salary ranges twice a year so these ranges may change in the future.
  • Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, job-related skills, qualifications, and other factors.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
  • Mental Wellness Benefit
  • Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
  • Enhanced Parental Leave
  • Volunteer Time Off
  • Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break
  • please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*

Company info

  • With a greenfield charter, we're building the infrastructure that accelerates and transforms AI product development at Mixpanel, both internally and for our customers.
  • We provide the tools to improve AI products, enabling internal teams and customer agents to build things that were previously unimaginable.
  • We build shared infrastructure that is essential for developing AI features with confidence and speed, and that gives every agent the tools, context, and quality guarantees to act autonomously on behalf of users.
  • Services that centralize core AI and LLM functionality at Mixpanel in order to accelerate AI development, compound the value of AI efforts, and provide customers with a consistent experience.
  • Role Overview
  • You will be responsible for building the scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure that accelerates AI agent development.
  • We seek to deeply understand our customers' needs, ensuring their success is our north star.
  • Some examples of what we are building:
  • AI Engine: Services that centralize core AI and LLM functionality at Mixpanel in order to accelerate AI development, compound the value of AI efforts, and provide customers with a consistent experience.
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