Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AvantStay operates a technology platform supporting more than 2,700 vacation rentals across over 60 destinations, with custom systems for pricing, marketing, and portfolio operations. The AI Engineer will build and maintain production LLM and agentic systems integrated with company infrastructure and knowledge bases, collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, and develop tooling that enables faster deployment of AI agents.
Responsibilities
- Ship LLM systems that tightly integrate with our infrastructure and knowledge bases: PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, Kafka, APIs, MCPs
- Maintain autonomous and human-in-the-loop systems and ensure uptime and accuracy
- Interact with users and stakeholders to understand their problems and design solutions
- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in LLMs and applied AI practices
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, designers, and other members to create a product that solves actual problems
- Update existing systems to be agent-accessible. Some % of the work is refactoring APIs that were never meant to be called by an LLM - be ready for that
- Build the patterns and tooling that let the rest of engineering deploy agents faster
Skills
- * Shipped at least one LLM-powered system used by real users (internal or external) that took actions in a real system
- * Can talk specifically about evals, retrieval shape, observability of agent traces, and handling non-determinism in a system business operators depend on
- * Strong software engineering fundamentals - databases, Kafka, GraphQL/REST, Kubernetes, AWS
- * Proficient in TypeScript. Scala (functional, Typelevel) and Python are a plus, but deep Scala expertise is not required
- * Product instincts. You can sit with a stakeholder for an hour and walk out with a concrete idea of what to build
- * Fluent in English
- * OSS contributions to the AI ecosystem. Examples: LangGraph, PydanticAI, DSPy, instructor, or similar
- * Functional programming background. Preference to use functional paradigm
- * High-throughput data systems experience (Kafka, ClickHouse, Postgres at scale)
Benefits
- Equity
- Generous paid time off including holidays
- 100% remote - work from anywhere in the world
- Complimentary and discounted stays at AvantStay properties
- Periodic team gatherings
- Budget for Greenfield AI Tooling
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