Generative AI Engineer

$150,000 - $190,000/Yr

Fabfitfun - Los Angeles, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Los Angeles, CA

Warehousing and Storage

About the position

FabFitFun is seeking a Generative AI Engineer to join our Engineering team, focusing on leveraging AI technology within the FFF ecosystem. This role involves leading the development of generative AI solutions, designing customer-facing chat experiences, and ensuring the quality and performance of chatbot functionalities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of generative AI solutions from the ground up, including strategic planning and technical execution.
• Act as a thought leader to align the chatbot's capabilities with company goals and provide recommendations for best practices.
• Design and implement customer-facing chat experiences integrated into our platforms.
• Develop, optimize, and maintain backend and application code in Python and Java to support chatbot functionalities.
• Craft and fine-tune effective prompts for generative AI use cases, iteratively improving quality by conducting experiments.
• Deploy and manage chatbot components in production, ensuring their stability, scalability, and performance.
• Develop or procure a comprehensive solution to validate and monitor the quality of chat interactions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements and align project goals.
• Participate in weekly sprints to ensure timely planning, execution, and review of tasks.
• Establish standards and best practices through comprehensive documentation and training.

Requirements

• 1 year of experience working with foundational LLM models, including deploying, fine-tuning, and integrating these models into production environments.
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with a strong focus on backend development.
• Proficiency in Python or Java.
• Understanding of data science concepts to support performance evaluation.
• Designed, built, and operated domain-driven backend systems at scale.
• Worked in agile environments, including kanban and hybrid systems.
• Simplified complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and curious teammates.
• Automated systems for long-term, stable production operation with minimal human intervention.
• Driven continuous delivery, ensuring small and frequent deployments.
• Tuned observability across the stack to enhance monitoring and reliability.
• Worked on prompt engineering, experimenting with different approaches to enhance AI output.

Nice-to-haves

• Deployed and integrated AI models, specifically LLM foundational models, into real-world applications.
• Worked with LLM agent architectures like AutoGen, MetaGPT, CrewAI, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGPT, and Swarm.
• Developed or worked with traditional chatbot frameworks such as Dialog Flow, Rasa, Microsoft Bot Framework, and Wit.ai.
• Fine-tuned large language models to improve application-specific performance.
• Implemented AI safety practices and guardrails to ensure ethical and responsible AI usage.

Benefits

• Uncapped / Generous PTO
• Medical, Dental & Vision with competitive coverage options and plans
• 401K & 401K Match
• Pet insurance for any FFF furry friends via Nationwide - covers 90% expenses
• Complimentary annual FFF subscription with seasonal $25 credit for e-commerce flash sales
• Donation matching program via BrightFunds, where the company matches up to $500 charitable donations per employee