Senior AI Engineer

At SpeakUp, AI isn't a feature on a roadmap. It's becoming the backbone of how our platform works: how users find information, how workflows get automated, how the platform reasons over complex data.

As a Senior AI Engineer, you'll define how AI engineering works here. The standards, the patterns, the architecture. You'll work directly with product owners and squad engineers to take features from concept to production, with the autonomy to shape those decisions, not just execute them.

This is a role for someone who wants to build a roadmap, not follow one.

🚀 What You'll Own

• AI Feature Development: Take ambiguous requirements and turn them into well-reasoned, production-grade implementations end-to-end.
• Agentic Workflows: Design multi-step, tool-using agents that orchestrate LLM calls, APIs, and platform data. Architect systems that plan, reason, act, and recover from failures gracefully.
• LLM Integration: Integrate and critically evaluate LLMs across providers (AWS Bedrock with Anthropic Claude, Azure OpenAI, and others) to select the right approach per use case.
• Prompt Engineering and Evaluation: Write, version, and evaluate prompts systematically. Build pipelines that catch regressions before they reach users.
• AI Engineering Standards: Establish patterns, tooling choices, and best practices the wider engineering team can build on as AI work scales.

🫶🏽 Our Ideal Senior AI Engineer

Must-Have

• 4+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 1–2 years shipping AI/LLM features to production.
• Strong hands-on experience integrating LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or equivalent) in a Node.js/TypeScript codebase.
• Proven experience designing agentic workflows: multi-step reasoning, tool use, state management, and failure handling. You build systems, not wrappers.
• Product startup background; comfortable owning outcomes and navigating ambiguity.

Strong Plus

• LangChain, LangGraph, or similar orchestration frameworks.
• RAG architectures and vector databases.
• LLM observability, prompt security, and hallucination mitigation in production.

🌟 Why Join SpeakUp?

Most AI roles have you building recommendation engines or ad optimization. Here, you're building for moments that actually matter: whistleblowing, workplace safety, misconduct reporting.

You won't be handed a spec. You'll help write it. And because you're joining early, your decisions will shape how this team builds for years.

• Real ownership. Architecture, standards, roadmap: all yours to define.
• A team that ships. Small, fast, high bar on code quality and product thinking.
• Hard problems. AI at the intersection of compliance, privacy, and production LLM behavior.