Applied AI Engineer

Why Mintlify?We're on a mission to empower builders.Massive reach: Our docs platform serves 100 million+ developers every year and powers documentation for 20,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Microsoft, PayPal, Spotify, Coinbase, X, and over 20% of the last YC batch.Small team, huge impact: We recently passed 65 employees and raised a $45 million Series B led by A16Z and Salesforce Ventures. Each new hire has a huge impact on shaping the company's trajectory.Culture of slope over y-intercept: We value learning velocity, grit, and unapologetically unique personalities.We grew in value faster than headcount and we’re looking to align the two quickly.We’re looking for product-minded engineers to build the AI experiences behind Mintlify. You’ll combine strong full-stack engineering with applied AI expertise to create agents that reliably solve real customer problems.As an Applied AI Engineer, you’ll take ownership of complex AI products from early experimentation through production. You’ll help define technical direction, establish how we evaluate and improve agent performance, and raise the quality of both our AI products and engineering practices.What You'll Work On HereBuilding AI products end to end: Designing and shipping customer-facing AI experiences, from agent orchestration and tool use to the interfaces and backend systems that support themDeveloping reliable agents: Building agent loops that reason over complex context, call tools, recover from failures, and complete long-running tasksEvaluating and improving performance: Creating evals, analyze failures, and hill-climb on prompts, context, models, tools, and product flowsShipping across the stack: Building the APIs, data pipelines, interfaces, and production infrastructure needed to turn promising prototypes into polished productsWhat You Bring To The TableYou have at least 4 years of professional software development experienceYou possess deep experience building production systems with language models, including agent loops, tool use, retrieval, prompting, and structured outputsYou are comfortable owning production software across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, and infrastructureYou have led complex projects from experimentation through production and thrive when defining solutions rather than following a specYou have strong product intuition and care about the “why” as much as the “how” when building user-facing softwareYou’re eager to talk directly with customers and use those insights to shape what we buildYou have experience mentoring other engineers, sharing technical knowledge, and helping teammates growWhy you should join our engineering teamYou’ll solve technically ambitious product problems alongside a team that values craft, speed, and thoughtful execution. Here’s a taste of what the team has built:How we built a virtual filesystem for our AssistantIntroducing the collaborative editor built for teams and agentsDocs URL Benchmark: Markdown & llms.txt > HTMLEngineers here are product builders with high agency; you'll drive change and have a voice in strategic decisionsYou’ll have plenty of heads-down builder time on a small-but-mighty team where the best ideas winWe’ll find the intersection between what excites you and business priorities. You’ll own projects, ship, and see immediate impactCompany Benefits:Competitive compensation and equity20 days paid time off every year401k or RRSP$420/month wellness stipend100% coverage for Health, dental, visionFree Ubers to and from workFree lunch and dinnersAnnual team offsite (previously went to Alaska, Hawaii)