Senior AI Engineer

$220,000 - $220,000/Yr

Fora Travel - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

Remote - New York, NY

51-100 employees

About the position

Fora is seeking a product-oriented Senior AI Engineer to serve as the go-to expert and technical authority for existing and new AI products. This role is critical in shaping the trajectory of Fora's AI capabilities, from concept inception to product deployment, and aims to enhance user productivity significantly. The Senior AI Engineer will collaborate closely with various teams to develop production-grade AI products that drive real impact for customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead development, scaling, monitoring, and maintenance of all AI products
• Partner with Product to impact sizing, scoping, and prioritization
• Build MVPs quickly to prove or disprove product hypotheses in days
• Build custom data pipelines that support all AI product initiatives that are scalable and easy to maintain (Airflow, AirByte)
• Collaborate closely with the Product, Growth, and Engineering teams
• Continually refine existing AI products - leverage new models, new tools, and new prompting techniques
• Manage and oversee the evals process

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering
• 3+ years of ML experience
• Operate with high energy, good at frequent context switching and making progress on multiple projects at once
• Experience building AI prototypes or shipped AI products to users
• Expertise building production-grade RAG & agentic pipelines (hybrid search, evals, etc.)
• Extreme ownership and ruthless prioritization
• Experience building and optimizing data pipelines (AirFlow, AirByte, etc.)
• Experience using Pinecone (or other vector DBs), Llama Index, Langchain
• Fluent in Python and Typescript
• Clear understanding of when to apply various prompt engineering techniques: COT, emotional reasoning, few-shot, etc.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to initiate and drive projects proactively and accurately

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation
• Ability to book travel for yourself, friends and family and earn the commission like an advisor
• Hybrid work environment, with two fully remote weeks encouraged
• Regular travel-related team events
• Health Insurance (including an option completely covered by Fora HQ)
• Dental & Vision Insurance
• ClassPass Memberships
• 401k plan
• Commuter Benefits
• Stock Options