Airbyte

Airbyte

Senior AI Platform Engineer

San Francisco · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 15 hours ago
Distributed SystemsPostgreSQLPlatform EngineeringTemporalKafkaSparkLLMsRAGAgentic AILangGraphAI OrchestrationCustomer SuccessCommunication

About the role

  • The architecture is taking shape but there's enormous room to define how this works.

Responsibilities

  • Build the AI Runtime
  • Design and implement the orchestration layer that turns natural-language intent into reliable execution.
  • Build systems for entity resolution, context assembly, connector orchestration, and evidence retrieval.
  • Develop reusable Skills that encapsulate business workflows and domain expertise.
  • Build routing systems that intelligently coordinate connectors, tools, deterministic logic, and multiple language models.
  • Build Products Users Trust
  • Own features end-to-end, from runtime capability to user-facing experience.
  • Develop evidence-backed reasoning with citations and traceability that users can actually see and verify.
  • Build evaluation frameworks that continuously improve quality.
  • Implement permission models, freshness validation, and action policies that work transparently for end users.

Requirements

  • Ability to rapidly prototype while maintaining production quality.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, Temporal, MCP, or similar).
  • Experience with retrieval systems, vector search, or knowledge graphs.
  • Experience with data infrastructure including Kafka, Iceberg, Postgres, Spark, or modern data warehouses.
  • Success isn't measured by the sophistication of the prompts.
  • It's measured by whether the runtime becomes more trustworthy every week.

Skills

  • Automatically assemble the right context and choose the correct connectors and Skills.
  • Produce evidence-backed answers with citations.
  • Enforce permissions and freshness guarantees.
  • Learn from failures through replay and evaluation.
  • Allow users to ask once and receive a trusted answer.

Compensation

  • Flexible PTO with a culture that encourages at least 25 days off annually

Benefits

  • Flexible PTO with a culture that encourages at least 25 days off annually
  • 16 weeks fully paid parental leave for all parents
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Professional development budget, conference sponsorship, and book reimbursement
  • Commuter benefits and monthly internet reimbursement
  • A collaborative, in-person culture focused on learning, growth, and impact

Company info

  • make data available and actionable to everyone, everywhere.
  • That everyone now includes AI agents.
  • Every company will soon have AI agents.
  • Most will struggle with trust.
  • Build prototypes, validate ideas, and rapidly iterate with customers.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Professional development budget, conference sponsorship, and book reimbursement

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