Job Summary:
Klaviyo is a company that empowers creators to own their destiny by making first-party data accessible and actionable. They are seeking a Senior AI Engineer to design and build scalable backend systems for their AI products and AI agent solutions, collaborating closely with product managers, machine learning engineers, and data scientists.
Responsibilities:
• Design and build backend systems that support scaling our AI solutions for 167K+ customers.
• Develop robust, reliable and scalable data collection and processing pipelines for machine learning models to train and consume.
• Develop robust, reliable and scalable services to serve AI models in production environments.
• Contribute to evolving our agentic architecture, making our AI agents more self-sufficient and performant.
• Contribute to a culture of ownership, experimentation, and customer-centric product thinking.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5-7 years of professional experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on backend systems and distributed architectures.
• Have hands-on experience building and deploying generative AI and agentic AI applications into production, with expertise in prompt engineering, few-shot learning, fine tuning and evaluation.
• Experienced backend engineer with a strong track record of building scalable, distributed systems, especially in the service of AI agent capabilities.
• Proficient in Python and modern backend frameworks (FastAPI, Django preferred).
• Experience creating human and automated evals to ensure high AI model quality.
• Proficient in big data tools such as Apache Spark and Hadoop.
• Deep experience with asynchronous processing and distributed task queues (Celery, Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, Redis).
• Strong understanding of database technologies and ORMs (SQLAlchemy, Alembic).
• Comfortable with cloud-native architectures (AWS) and container orchestration (Kubernetes); can manage infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Skilled at designing and building robust APIs.
• Able to operate with a high degree of autonomy, handle ambiguity, and thrive in a fast-moving, startup-like environment.
• Driven by curiosity. You're someone who learns and stays up to date with this rapidly evolving field.
• Comfortable collaborating directly with product managers and customers to shape solutions.
Preferred:
• Trained ML models in the past and deployed them in production systems to generate impact to businesses.
• Experience in reinforcement learning.
Company:
Klaviyo is an automation and email platform designed to help grow businesses. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in Boston, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.