Crunchyroll

Crunchyroll

Principal AI Engineer

Los Angeles, California, United States · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$248k-$300kDetected 28 days ago
TypeScriptPythonDatadogLLMsAgentic AIAI OrchestrationLeadership

About the role

  • In the role of Principal AI Engineer for Concepts Lab, you will report to the VP of the Concepts Lab.
  • We are considering applicants for the location of Los Angeles, CA (onsite).
  • This is a hybrid technical and enablement role.

Responsibilities

  • Be the opinionated voice on how cross-functional pods should be designed and how agentic systems scale inside a large engineering organization.
  • Own the measurement layer that tells us whether agentic delivery is working.
  • Drive enablement and adoption across Product, Design, and Engineering.
  • The team partners closely with engineering, product, and business leaders to test assumptions, build evidence, and transition validated concepts into delivery teams.

Requirements

  • You possess deep expertise with modern agentic coding tools and frameworks (Claude Code, Cursor, Devin, or comparable) used across the full development cycle, and you can speak to where they break and how to extend them.
  • You hold strong, well-defended opinions about how agentic systems scale across large engineering organizations, and you have either built that experience firsthand or studied closely how leading companies have done it.

Nice to have

  • Experience in media, streaming, or gaming
  • Experience working in an innovation lab, incubation environment, or R&D organization
  • Experience with Datadog, LangSmith, Langfuse, or comparable LLM observability tooling
  • Pay Transparency - Los Angeles, CA
  • We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
  • We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.

Skills

  • The Concepts Lab is Crunchyroll's R&D and incubation group, focused on exploring new ideas, technologies, and experiences for anime fans.

Compensation

  • The Pay Range for this position is listed.

Benefits

  • Other rewards may include performance bonuses, employer matched retirement savings, time-off programs, and progressive health benefits and perks.
  • You will build the dashboards and learning reports that turn the lab's 2-week sprints into evidence executives can act on, and you will be honest when the numbers say something is not working.

Company info

  • About Crunchyroll
  • Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community.
  • We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave.
  • Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it's powered by the anime content we all love.
  • Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!
  • Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
  • Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
  • Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
  • Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.
  • https://help.crunchyroll.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040471712-Crunchyroll-Hiring-FAQs
  • Please beware of recent scams to online job seekers.
  • Those applying to our job openings will only be contacted directly from @crunchyroll.com email account.
  • You will move fluidly between hands-on agent and platform development, instrumenting and measuring whether the system is actually working, and partnering with stakeholders across the company to roll those capabilities out.
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