Senior AI Engineer

About the role

We're looking for a Senior AI Engineer to help advance Amplitude's AI products and the foundations they're built on. As AI reshapes how customers analyze data, build products, and act on insights, we need engineers who can move fluidly between deep technical work and product judgment, shipping AI capabilities that customers and internal teams actually rely on.

Responsibilities

• Ship high-impact AI features and products that change how customers and internal teams work, from agentic workflows to embedded intelligence across the Amplitude platform
• Design and build the foundational infrastructure behind Amplitude's AI systems: orchestration, evaluation, retrieval, context management, and integrations with the broader product ecosystem
• Identify high-leverage opportunities by deeply understanding user workflows, customer pain points, and emerging capabilities in the AI ecosystem
• Establish reusable patterns, primitives, and components that enable other engineers to build AI features confidently and consistently
• Drive adoption and quality through close collaboration with product, design, and customer-facing teams, with a relentless focus on real usage and measurable outcomes
• Set technical direction for AI systems at Amplitude, making thoughtful build vs. buy calls, shaping evaluation strategy, and influencing the long-term roadmap

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years building production LLM or applied AI systems
• Experience designing and scaling AI products, platforms, or developer tools with real users and real reliability constraints
• Deep familiarity with the modern AI ecosystem: model APIs, agent frameworks, evals, retrieval, prompting, tool use, and the tradeoffs between them
• Strong product sense and systems thinking; you know when to prototype, when to harden, and when to invest in durable infrastructure
• Excellent communicator and collaborator, able to drive alignment across engineering, design, product, and go-to-market

What You're Like

• You're a highly capable engineer with a strong track record of shipping AI-powered systems that people actually use. You bring deep technical instincts, strong product sense, and a forward-thinking view of where AI is heading.

How You Think & Work

• Leverage mindset: You see AI as a way to reshape how teams and customers think, plan, and execute, not just a feature to bolt on
• Context is key: You understand that AI is most powerful when grounded in real data, workflows, and decisions
• Vision leads utility: You listen closely to users and customers, but you also anticipate their needs and lead with creative, forward-looking solutions
• Build to learn: You favor fast iteration, usage-based validation, and continuous improvement over upfront perfection

Values

• Humility: We operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
• Ownership: We take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared company success.
• Growth Mindset: We’re tenacious in the face of challenges and seek feedback in order to grow ourselves and others.
• Customer Centricity: We put the customer at the center of everything we do and are deeply committed to their success.

Benefits

• Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans
• 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of your eligible pay each pay period up to $2,000 annually
• Flexible time off, paid holidays, and more
• Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), new hire home office equipment, and much more
• Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy sessions
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Pay & Schedule

• Colorado range: $190,000 - $286,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
• New York City salary range: $211,000 - $316,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
• San Francisco Bay Area of California salary range: $211,000 - $316,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
• California salary range: $190,000 - $286,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
• Washington salary range: $190,000 - $286,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
• Washington only: unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans