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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 live shopping marketplace that connects buyers and sellers through interactive livestreams, auctions, and online storefronts. Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in Los Angeles, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.