Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stylitics is the leading visual outfitting and styling solution for top retailers and brands, seeking an AI Software Engineer to join their innovation division, AI Labs. This role involves combining software engineering expertise with AI model applications to drive innovation across various retail use cases, requiring both front-end and back-end skills to prototype and deploy solutions.
Responsibilities
- Write production-level code in TypeScript (with AI tools)
- Build full-stack prototypes, including front-end interfaces that demonstrate capability to stakeholders and clients
- Prompt engineering and testing with LLMs, including Claude, Gemini, and OpenAI models
- Context engineering to determine the right data to surface to LLMs and agents
- Agentic workflow design
- Help us build systems to easily monitor and test LLM performance
- Analyze large data sets
- Design and implement solutions for scale and maintainability across multiple clients
- Contribute as a thought leader to conversations around LLM usage, including challenging or proposing technical directions and identifying what to worry about (and what not to) early in a project
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or other related fields, or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of software development experience, ideally including some exposure to retail, e-commerce, or another applied AI/technology industry. Experience building AI or LLM-powered products is a bonus
- Confident communication (written and oral) skills and a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with all levels of internal and external organizations. Strong asynchronous written communication is essential, Labs works across time zones and with small, distributed teams
- Strong problem-solving, attention to detail, organizational, and time management skills along with demonstrated strategic thinking abilities
- Working experience with modern prototyping stacks, specifically React, TypeScript, and SQL, sufficient to stand up a working UI backed by a real data model
- Hands-on experience with LLMs and prompt engineering, including work with at least one of Claude, Gemini, or OpenAI APIs
- Demonstrated affinity for and experience with agentic software engineering — either on the job or on your own time. We expect you to be enthusiastic about using AI coding tools in your day-to-day work
- Foundational understanding of system design, scalability principles, use of APIs, and open-source packages
- Familiarity with evaluating model performance using structured test cases and metrics
- Ability to operate with ambiguity in product definition, with support from senior engineers as needed
- Judgment to know when to trust an LLM's output and when to challenge it, a foundation of actual engineering knowledge and experience, not just the ability to look things up
- Experience at a high-growth start-up and comfortable with the unknown
- Working experience with building test workflows for LLMs
- Familiarity with additional programming languages such as Java or Python for data processing or AI prototyping
Benefits
- Vision and dental insurance options that are fully covered by us
- Medical plan coverage, with options that start at no cost to you
- Competitive salary along with career planning for the future
- For this role, stock options in a company that is growing rapidly and successfully
- Commuter benefits program
- Company matched 401k plan to help plan for your future
- Generous paid time off policies
- Work events - both virtual and in person
- Access to ClassPass - a company paid benefit giving you access to numerous physical and mental well being needs
- Working with fun, hardworking, nice people who are committed to making a difference
Company Overview
Stylitics is the tech partner for retailers to inspire shoppers with personalized outfitting, styling, and bundling content. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://www.stylitics.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Stylitics has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2022, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.