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Senior AI Engineer, AI Labs
Senior AI Engineer, AI Labs
As a Senior AI Engineer at Via, you will be a founding member of Via's new AI Labs, operating like a startup within the company. This role involves building and shipping production-grade AI products end-to-end, working across a varied roadmap, and collaborating with partners to develop agentic solutions for challenging problems.
About the role
About the Role
- Build and ship production-grade AI products end-to-end - owning everything from problem framing and data pipeline design through to deployment and iteration in live environments.
- Work closely with our partners in a forward-deployed manner to deeply understand problems and constraints and iterate quickly on scalable agentic solutions.
- Lead technical scoping workshops, directly interfacing with city leaders to solve challenging local problems with agentic workflows.
- Work across a fast-moving and varied roadmap, contributing to intelligent tooling involving data consolidation, predictive modelling, real-time decision-making, and LLM-powered experiences.
- Collaborate directly with product, data science, and operations teams to identify and prioritize the highest-impact AI opportunities across the business.
- Write clean, scalable backend code that powers AI-driven features - designing APIs, managing data flows, and ensuring your systems perform reliably at scale.
- Help shape the technical culture of AI Labs from the ground up - contributing to how the team builds, reviews, ships, and iterates.
- Stay close to the frontier of AI development and bring new ideas, tools, and approaches into the team proactively.
About You
- You have 8+ years of hands-on experience building and shipping AI-powered products - with a track record of owning features end-to-end rather than working in isolation on models or research.
- You have deep expertise across the AI/ML stack - including LLMs, predictive modelling, and the data infrastructure required to support them in real-world environments.
- You're a strong backend engineer at your core - comfortable designing scalable APIs, working with distributed systems, and writing code that is clean, maintainable, and built to last.
- You're energized by ambiguity and early-stage environments - you don't need everything to be defined to do great work, and you take ownership without being asked.
- You bring the communication skills to work cross-functionally and the intellectual curiosity to keep pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI.
- You thrive when working directly with users and customers, and are comfortable with travel to collaborate on-site.