AI Tooling Engineer
Seattle, WA · On-site
Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe, focused on building live commerce at an unprecedented scale. They are seeking a Senior AI Tooling Engineer to develop ...
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AI Tooling Engineer
Seattle, WA · On-site
Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe, focused on building live commerce at an unprecedented scale. They are seeking a Senior AI Tooling Engineer to develop ...
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Job Summary:
Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe, focused on building live commerce at an unprecedented scale. They are seeking a Senior AI Tooling Engineer to develop internal tools and workflows that integrate AI across various teams, enhancing productivity and efficiency within the company.
Responsibilities:
• Own ambiguous, cross-org AI bets end-to-end—identify the highest-leverage problems across the company, decide what to build, and drive it from prototype to durable production tool
• Build and ship a high volume of internal apps, prototypes, and automations—going from a vague problem to a working tool in days, then iterating with users toward production quality
• Define the reusable patterns and shared infrastructure the org builds on—reference architectures, internal libraries, MCP servers, eval harnesses, and templates that let others move faster and safer
• Embed directly with teams across CX, Trust & Safety, ops, GTM, and EPD to find high-leverage problems, then build the solution alongside them
• Wire AI into real business context—building RAG and retrieval pipelines, MCP servers, and agentic workflows grounded in Whatnot's data, with appropriate PII and access controls
• Integrate AI tools with internal systems and data sources via APIs, connectors, and event-driven workflows so automations act on real state, not toy inputs
• Scale the leverage—package successful builds into reusable skills and playbooks, and level up the whole company through enablement sessions, boot camps, and mentorship of other builders
• Stay ahead of the AI landscape, evaluating and bringing in new models, tools, and patterns as the ecosystem evolves, and making the build-vs-buy calls
Qualifications:
Required:
• 4 + years of industry experience at scale
• 1+ years of industry experience with the current generation of LLM products (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google)
• Extensive hands-on experience building with prompt engineering, RAG, MCP, agents, and evals
• Experience connecting AI to real data and tools through APIs, webhooks, and connectors
• Ability to reason rigorously about reliability, latency, cost, and access controls
• Experience defining how teams build and mentoring other engineers
• Strong communication skills to translate non-technical problems into software solutions
• Ability to see inefficiency, build fixes, and bring people along
Company:
Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform for buying and selling products. Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.
Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe, focused on building live commerce at an unprecedented scale. They are seeking a Senior AI Tooling Engineer to develop internal tools and workflows that integrate AI across various teams, enhancing productivity and efficiency within the company.
Responsibilities:
• Own ambiguous, cross-org AI bets end-to-end—identify the highest-leverage problems across the company, decide what to build, and drive it from prototype to durable production tool
• Build and ship a high volume of internal apps, prototypes, and automations—going from a vague problem to a working tool in days, then iterating with users toward production quality
• Define the reusable patterns and shared infrastructure the org builds on—reference architectures, internal libraries, MCP servers, eval harnesses, and templates that let others move faster and safer
• Embed directly with teams across CX, Trust & Safety, ops, GTM, and EPD to find high-leverage problems, then build the solution alongside them
• Wire AI into real business context—building RAG and retrieval pipelines, MCP servers, and agentic workflows grounded in Whatnot's data, with appropriate PII and access controls
• Integrate AI tools with internal systems and data sources via APIs, connectors, and event-driven workflows so automations act on real state, not toy inputs
• Scale the leverage—package successful builds into reusable skills and playbooks, and level up the whole company through enablement sessions, boot camps, and mentorship of other builders
• Stay ahead of the AI landscape, evaluating and bringing in new models, tools, and patterns as the ecosystem evolves, and making the build-vs-buy calls
Qualifications:
Required:
• 4 + years of industry experience at scale
• 1+ years of industry experience with the current generation of LLM products (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google)
• Extensive hands-on experience building with prompt engineering, RAG, MCP, agents, and evals
• Experience connecting AI to real data and tools through APIs, webhooks, and connectors
• Ability to reason rigorously about reliability, latency, cost, and access controls
• Experience defining how teams build and mentoring other engineers
• Strong communication skills to translate non-technical problems into software solutions
• Ability to see inefficiency, build fixes, and bring people along
Company:
Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform for buying and selling products. Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.
About Whatnot
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Industry
Internet and it
Company size
201 - 500 Employees
Headquarters location
Los Angeles, CA, US
Year founded
2019