Staff Applied AI Engineer

Premier Global Links LLC is seeking an experienced Staff Applied AI Engineer to build and scale reliable AI capabilities for a growing health coaching platform. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who has shipped LLM-powered applications to production and enjoys owning the full AI development lifecycle from prototyping and evaluation through deployment monitoring and iteration.

The ideal candidate will have 410 years of applied AI engineering experience Staff-level experience strong Python skills production experience with LLMs and AI agents and a highly collaborative curious and results-driven mindset.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and ship production AI agents using LLMs tool calling structured outputs and streaming responses.
• Develop AI-powered features supporting personalized guidance across sleep nutrition fitness and wellness.
• Own the full AI development lifecycle from prototyping and evaluation to deployment monitoring and continuous improvement.
• Develop and evaluate AI systems using frameworks such as LangChain and LangGraph.
• Improve AI reliability latency cost and observability through prompt caching token budgets retry logic and monitoring.
• Build production tools and API integrations using Pydantic validation data search and structured submissions.
• Design evaluation processes to measure AI safety effectiveness reliability and personalization.
• Build and deploy production Python services and scalable AI infrastructure.
• Work closely with product design mobile and backend engineers in a cross-functional environment.
• Apply direct feedback and data-driven insights to continuously improve AI features and systems.

Required Qualifications

• 410 years of experience in applied AI engineering or a closely related engineering role.
• Experience working at the Staff Engineer level or above.
• Hands-on experience deploying LLMs in production including prompt engineering tool calling structured output and evaluation.
• Strong experience building and deploying production Python services.
• Experience with AI agent frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph.
• Experience with async Python HTTP APIs and streaming protocols such as SSE and webhooks.
• Strong software engineering and system design fundamentals.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership in a fast-changing environment.
• Comfortable giving and receiving direct feedback.
• Ability to work remotely within the continental United States and U.S. time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience transitioning from a large technology organization into a startup environment.
• Experience as a co-founder or founding engineer.
• Previous experience at large technology companies such as Amazon or Meta.
• Experience working with AI products in healthcare fitness wellness or related fields.
• Experience with AI evaluation observability and production monitoring.
• Background with Y Combinator or other high-growth startup environments.
• Location in San Francisco CA.

Work Schedule

Remote: Full-time remote position within the continental United States.

The role operates in a fast-paced highly collaborative environment with close partnership across engineering product design mobile and backend teams.

Compensation

$250000$300000 per year equity opportunities.

Additional compensation flexibility may be available for exceptional candidates including potential sign-on bonuses.

Benefits

• Competitive equity opportunities.
• Learning and development support.
• Wellness stipend.
• Competitive company benefits.
• Opportunity to build production AI systems and shape the foundation of a growing health coaching platform.

Premier Global Links LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law.