Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AvantStay is a technology platform managing over 2,700 vacation rentals across 60+ destinations. They are seeking an AI Engineer to ship LLM systems, maintain autonomous systems, and collaborate with a cross-functional team to create effective AI solutions.
Responsibilities
- Ship LLM systems that tightly integrate with our infrastructure and knowledge bases: PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, Kafka, APIs, MCPs
- Maintain autonomous and human-in-the-loop systems and ensure uptime and accuracy
- Interact with users and stakeholders to understand their problems and design solutions
- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in LLMs and applied AI practices
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, designers, and other members to create a product that solves actual problems
- Update existing systems to be agent-accessible. Some % of the work is refactoring APIs that were never meant to be called by an LLM - be ready for that
- Build the patterns and tooling that let the rest of engineering deploy agents faster
Skills
- Shipped at least one LLM-powered system used by real users (internal or external) that took actions in a real system
- Can talk specifically about evals, retrieval shape, observability of agent traces, and handling non-determinism in a system business operators depend on
- Strong software engineering fundamentals - databases, Kafka, GraphQL/REST, Kubernetes, AWS
- Proficient in TypeScript
- Product instincts. You can sit with a stakeholder for an hour and walk out with a concrete idea of what to build
- Fluent in English
- OSS contributions to the AI ecosystem. Examples: LangGraph, PydanticAI, DSPy, instructor, or similar
- Functional programming background. Preference to use functional paradigm
- High-throughput data systems experience (Kafka, ClickHouse, Postgres at scale)
Benefits
- Equity
- Generous paid time off including holidays
- 100% remote - work from anywhere in the world
- Complimentary and discounted stays at AvantStay properties
- Periodic team gatherings
- Budget for Greenfield AI Tooling
Company Overview
AvantStay is the largest and highest-rated luxury vacation rental management company in the United States It was founded in 2017, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://avantstay.com.