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Senior AI Engineer

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$137,200–$206,600San Carlos, CASenior

The Senior AI Engineer builds production-grade AI capabilities and platform foundations for Joby’s manufacturing and enterprise workflows.

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At a glance

Posted base pay

$137K–$207KBelow the median

The work

Builds for teams inside the company

Balance

  1. Mostly building
  2. Mixed
  3. Mostly pre-sales or support

Project stages

  1. Pre-sales (not covered)
  2. Proof of concept
  3. Implementation
  4. Operations
Coding
Writes production code
Builds for
Internal teams
Level
Senior
Role
Technical lead

What they ask for

Experience

  • 5+ yearssoftware engineering

Background

  • Software engineering

Tools

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • Hugging Face
  • LangChain
  • LlamaIndex
  • RAG
  • vector databases
  • MLOps

Less common in FDE jobs

  • Who you build for: Internal teams15%
  • Covers proofs of concept39%
  • Individual contributor or manager: Technical lead46%

Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.

What you’ll do

  • Identify, prototype, and deploy AI/ML solutions for internal workflows.
  • Architect shared AI platform foundations and scalable, secure, observable AI services.
  • Build ML/LLM infrastructure, including orchestration, embedding pipelines, vector search, caching, and rate limiting.
  • Develop evaluation strategies, guardrails, and event-based agent frameworks.

What you’ll bring

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Strong Python skills and experience building and operating ML/AI systems.
  • Experience designing and implementing production ML/LLM systems end-to-end.

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Pay and conditions

Posted pay
$137,200–$206,600
Pay details

Compensation at Joby is a combination of base pay and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The target base pay for this position is $137,200 - $206,600/yr.

Location
San Carlos, CA
Experience requirements
  • 5+ years: software engineering (required)

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