Staff Engineer, AI Labs
AI summary of the role
Founding Staff Engineer for Via's new AI Labs, an incubator-style team building AI-powered products for cities beyond transit.
What you’ll do
- Build and ship production-grade AI products end-to-end, from problem framing to deployment
- Work forward-deployed with partners to iterate on scalable agentic solutions
- Lead technical scoping workshops with city leaders
- Contribute to intelligent tooling involving data consolidation, predictive modelling, real-time decision-making, and LLM-powered experiences
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years of hands-on full stack development with end-to-end ownership
- 3+ years working with AI tools or building AI-powered products
- Deep expertise across the AI stack (LLMs, predictive modelling, data infrastructure)
- Strong engineering fundamentals: scalable APIs, distributed systems, clean code
Technologies
LLMs · predictive modelling · data pipelines · agentic workflows · APIs · distributed systems · backend · full stack
About Via
End-to-end TransitTech platform helping cities, transit agencies, schools, and operators plan, run, and optimize public mobility with AI software plus tech-enabled operations.
Public · 1000–2000 people
Employer postings · Data from · Sources