Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nitrogen is a financial technology company that empowers advisors with AI-powered products. The Staff AI Execution Engineer will lead the design, development, and deployment of AI systems, ensuring they are reliable and enhance the advisors' experience.
Responsibilities
- Advances Nitrogen's AI capabilities with your expertise designing and shipping agentic systems into production use
- Owns the successful delivery of AI features end-to-end: from agent design and orchestration, through evaluation and hardening, to reliable production systems advisors depend on
- Builds the foundations that make agents dependable: memory systems, evaluation frameworks, and the patterns that improve agent decisions at scale
- Sets a high bar for technical productivity through deep, fluent, and consistently advancing use of agentic AI developer tools
- Pioneers AI-augmented engineering practices on the team, including prompts, harness configurations, and multi-agent orchestration, and shares them so the whole team moves faster
- Delivers high-quality, production-grade features at a velocity that meaningfully exceeds traditional engineering throughput, while reliably meeting commitments
- Provides architectural leadership across AI systems and the services and data flows that support them
- Maintains a deep understanding of what our domain-specific data means to our customers and their product experience
- Proactively identifies and addresses technical debt and developer experience gaps, advocating for AI-enhanced solutions
- Mentors and elevates the technical skills of fellow engineers, particularly in building and shipping AI systems
- Demonstrates a continuous improvement mindset in both personal development and all technical workflows
Skills
- 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience, with substantial depth building production systems and the judgment to know how data engines and pipelines work inside and out
- You operate at the leading edge of AI-augmented engineering
- You've shipped AI systems into production use, not just prototypes
- You build agentic workflows, agent memory, and orchestration, and you know what it takes to make them reliable, observable, and safe for real users
- You deeply understand the evaluation frameworks that improve agent decisions at scale
- You design evals, measure agent behavior rigorously, and turn those signals into systems that get measurably better over time
- You're fluent with the frameworks that power modern AI systems, including LangChain, LangGraph, GraphQL, and MCP
- You evaluate and adopt new tools faster than your peers and can articulate where each one fits
- You demonstrably ship more, with higher quality, than traditional throughput allows
- You've internalized the disciplines that make agentic tooling pay off: clear specs, tight feedback loops, rigorous review of agent output, and deliberate context engineering
- You are a trusted technical authority that others turn to for solving the most challenging problems and making high-impact decisions
- You've given tech talks internally or at conferences
- You actively mentor others, reduce knowledge silos, and raise the team's overall capability
- You're comfortable with SQL & Python in Snowflake & dbt and the realities of messy real-world data
- Experience with CDC, APIs, and services such as DMS, OpenFlow, Kafka, or similar is a strong plus
Benefits
- 4% 401(k) Match. Our employees invest so much in our company and we love getting to invest in them. The company will match your contributions dollar-for-dollar, up to 4% of your total annual compensation.
- Free Financial Planning Services. By working at a financial technology company, you get the benefit of fantastic financial advice. This is offered to all employees wanting expert guidance on how to handle their money.
- Medical, Dental & Vision insurance plans. We want to help keep you (and your family) healthy! Comprehensive health insurance options for you & your family.
- Health Savings Accounts (HSA) or Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) available depending on chosen medical plan. We know that investment risk isn’t a one-size-fits all and neither are your health savings options!
- Generous maternity & paternity leave for either the birth or adoption of a child. Mom's & Dad's need time with their new family members!
- Discounted pet insurance available. Pets are family too!!
- 3 weeks vacation & 1 week sick time per year.Take the time you need for fun or simply time to recover from not feeling well.
- 11 paid company holidays per year. Enjoy your time off; you deserve it!
- Remote & in-person team building activities help our employees stay connected and engaged. We absolutely love to hype our people up!
- Company wide meetings held by our CEO benefit all employees by keeping everyone in the loop. We are one team, and we tackle projects together.
- Employee development is our priority. From leadership training, to mentorship, to industry resources, we care about progressing you in your career.
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