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Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI in USA

  • PrizePicks
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Build an agent platform with orchestration, tool/function calling, evaluation harnesses, prompt and version management, tracing, observability, safety, and guardrails.
  • Develop RAG, structured extraction, and production inference workflows.
  • Embed AI into engineering workflows such as code review assistance, test generation, incident support, and developer copilots with measurable quality gates.
  • Own applied AI projects end to end, including data needs, system design, model/vendor selection, rollout, monitoring, and iteration.
  • Diagnose agent behavior from traces, evaluate AI-generated output, and determine which work should remain human-owned.
  • Partner with product, design, data/ML, platform, and application engineering teams to deliver customer-facing outcomes.
  • Establish engineering standards for reliability, evaluation, incident response, privacy/security, and AI development practices.
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews and pairing and promote organization-wide AI adoption.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent, including production systems delivery.
  • Direct experience on an Applied AI or product AI team building LLM- or ML-powered features, preferably agents or related tooling.
  • Demonstrated judgment in scoping, contextualizing, delegating, and verifying agent work.
  • Strong backend and system design skills involving APIs, distributed systems, queues/workflows, observability, and performance.
  • Experience navigating ambiguity, driving cross-functional outcomes, and mentoring engineers.
  • Preferred experience includes building SDKs, internal frameworks, developer tooling, embeddings, search/retrieval, evaluation methods, model monitoring, agents or assistants at scale, and managing inference latency, cost, caching, and vendor/model tradeoffs.

Benefits

  • Company-subsidized medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • 401(k) plan with company match, annual bonus, flexible PTO, paid leave programs including 16-week paid parental leave, and disability benefits.
  • Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules; candidates may work remotely anywhere in the U.S., with Atlanta preferred.
  • Company-wide in-person events, team outings, lifestyle enhancement program, and company-provided Windows or Mac equipment.
  • Annual performance reviews with career development opportunities.
  • The application period is intended to remain open for 30 days, with posted extension dates of October 10, 2026 and November 10, 2026.

Salary: $220k - $250k/yr

PrizePicks

PrizePicks is the fastest-growing sports company in North America according to the 2023 Inc. 5000 rankings, two years running, and the largest independent skill-based fantasy sports operator in the country. The company was recently recognized as the Fantasy Sports Business of the Year Award by th...

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