Staff Applied AI Engineer

Bolt.new is an AI-powered builder for full-stack applications. Built by StackBlitz, our WebContainers technology enables Node.js execution in browsers and serves over a million monthly developers. We're hiring a Staff Applied AI Engineer to lead the technical direction of the AI agents that turn natural language into production-ready applications.

What you'll do:

• Define the patterns and systems that govern how AI reasons about and generates full-stack applications
• Establish organizational patterns for context management and workflow orchestration
• Manage multi-provider LLM strategies across OpenAI (GPT), Anthropic (Claude), and Google (Gemini); evaluate and recommend models while building provider relationships
• Design the foundational systems that enable AI agents to call external tools and APIs safely
• Architect agent loops, evaluation frameworks, and prompt strategies that ship to millions of users
• Establish evaluation standards and drive AI research innovation across the team
• Provide cross-team technical leadership across product, engineering, and design
• Identify emerging LLM research techniques offering competitive advantages

What we're looking for:

• TypeScript proficiency with daily usage expectations
• Extensive hands-on LLM production experience demonstrating understanding of capabilities and limitations
• Deep prompt engineering expertise with mentoring ability
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and architectural design experience
• Ability managing ambiguous, high-scope challenges with minimal guidance
• Systems thinking applied to technical and organizational debt
• Data-driven evaluation framework development
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Vercel's AI SDK, LangGraph, and DSPy
• Machine learning fundamentals and evaluation metrics knowledge
• Open-source AI/ML contributions
• AI/ML research paper implementation experience
• Conference speaking or technical content publication

Schedule:

This is a remote role that requires flexibility to work from 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM Pacific Time in order to support collaboration across multiple time zones.

No degree required. No geographic restrictions (non-U.S. candidates welcome).

Tech stack: TypeScript, Vercel AI SDK, LangGraph, DSPy. Multi-provider LLMs: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google.