Staff Engineer - AI

Summary

Join Method, a global design and engineering consultancy, as a Staff AI Engineer. Design, develop, and deploy AI applications with sophisticated AI agents capable of complex reasoning and autonomous action. Build intuitive user interfaces, robust backend APIs, and scalable solutions. Provide technical leadership, mentor other engineers, and shape the technical direction for agentic AI initiatives. Travel up to 15% is required for team and client meetings. This role offers a unique opportunity to apply full-stack expertise to the forefront of AI development.

Requirements

• Experience in data engineering, including data curation, generation, and labeling
• Familiarity with foundation models and handling unstructured data
• Understanding of data preprocessing techniques like deduplication, tokenization, context retrieval, and quality control
• Proven ability to optimize model inference for speed and cost-effectiveness
• Experience in evaluating AI applications, identifying risks, and uncovering opportunities for enhancement
• Skill in evaluating open-ended, non-deterministic AI models and ensuring appropriate tone and content
• Proficiency in prompt engineering and context construction for guiding AI model behavior
• Experience developing AI-powered interfaces such as browser extensions, chatbots, and web applications
• Knowledge of various AI-related technologies and tools

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage AI-based data pipelines, including data curation, generation, and labeling for training and adapting AI models
• Work with foundation models and unstructured data, performing tasks such as data deduplication, tokenization, context retrieval, and quality control
• Optimize AI model inference for speed and cost-effectiveness
• Participate in the development and evaluation of AI applications, mitigating risks and identifying opportunities for performance enhancements
• Evaluate AI models, particularly open-ended, non-deterministic models, ensuring appropriate tone and content
• Apply prompt engineering techniques to guide AI models through input, without adjusting model weights
• Construct effective context for AI models to perform tasks, enhancing model performance
• Develop AI-powered interfaces such as browser extensions, chatbots, plugins/addons, web/desktop/mobile applications, voice assistants, and embedded AR/VR interfaces

Benefits

• Continuing education opportunities
• Flexible PTO and work-from-home policies
• 401K matching
• Health, Dental and Vision benefits, starting on day 1
• Company lunches, company outings, along with a lot of snacks
• Health and wellness programs