Staff AI Engineer - Architecture skills

Job summary

Responsibilities

At Shift, we are building the next generation of AI-driven platform capabilities. We are looking for an experienced, hands-on Staff AI Engineer to serve as the technical anchor for our AI capabilities; someone who is deeply passionate about building, prototyping, and scaling modern AI/LLM systems…

• Build & Architect Agentic Systems (Hands-On): Lead by doing. Design, prototype, and build production-ready agentic workflows, custom orchestration layers, and tool-calling…
• Bridge AI & Production Engineering: Move AI prototypes into robust, production-grade microservices on Azure. Ensure AI components are scalable, low-latency, and well-integrated…
• Implement Next-Gen AI Standards: Experiment with and integrate emerging paradigms into our production stack, including Model Context Protocol (MCP), advanced RAG patterns, vector…
• Drive AI Quality & LLMOps: Establish and implement operational frameworks for experiment tracking, evaluations, prompt engineering, latency optimization, token budget governance…
• Influence & Upskill: Act as a technical mentor for agent-focused engineering squads. Lead technical design reviews, set coding standards, and help elevate the team's AI…

Tech stack

• Azure
• RAG
• LangGraph
• LlamaIndex
• Python
• Kafka
• Docker
• Kubernetes