Unblocked
Senior AI Engineer
Vancouver · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 421 days ago
Machine LearningData EngineeringLLMsLLMOpsLeadership
About the role
- ABOUT UNBLOCKED Unblocked is a high-growth, well-funded SaaS company that answers questions software teams have about their code, so engineers can spend less time in meetings and more time shipping.
- ABOUT YOU You've built and shipped products that engineers love, including the pipelines and services behind them.
- You live in modern AI developer tools: Claude Code, Cursor, agentic CLIs, MCP servers, and you have strong opinions on where they shine and where they fall short.
Responsibilities
- As a Senior AI Engineer at Unblocked, you'll help design, build, and scale the market's best context engine. Working alongside experienced engineers, you'll:
- Build and scale data pipelines and AI services that ingest and process large volumes of structured and unstructured data
- Design end-to-end LLM systems across prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, and evaluation frameworks
- Design clean tool and context surfaces that agents can reliably reason and act over
- A track record of building evaluation harnesses for non-deterministic systems and using them to ship with confidence
- As a Senior AI Engineer at Unblocked, you'll help design, build, and scale the market's best context engine.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with context engineering: agentic retrieval, chunking, embeddings, reranking, graphs
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with frontier models across providers, with a view on when to reach for each
- Expert familiarity with agentic coding environments
- Demonstrated leadership of teammates through the delivery of a project
- Experience architecting and shipping complex backend systems, ideally in AI/ML or data-heavy domains
Skills
- Working knowledge of AI observability and eval tooling
- Expert-level software development skills in a modern typesafe language
- You've built MCP servers, agent SDKs, or other developer-facing AI infrastructure
- Experience with safety and guardrails for LLM systems, including prompt injection, PII handling, and untrusted content ingestion
- Eval-driven optimization through distillation or fine-tuning, where it actually pays off
- Work across frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and open source, routing intelligently by capability, latency, and cost
- Influence the roadmap, mentor teammates, and continuously raise the technical bar for the whole team
Compensation
- A competitive base salary.
Benefits
- Equity in the company for eligible candidates, offering the opportunity to share in our long-term success and growth.
- Generous medical and dental benefits.
- A very flexible vacation policy.
Company info
- Obsess over developer experience. Our customers are engineers and expect that we push the bar higher with every release
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