Staff AI Engineer

Versant Media is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to build the next generation of AI-powered equity research for individual investors. The role involves designing and deploying LLM-powered systems, owning AI platform decisions, and mentoring engineers.

• Build end-to-end distributed agentic AI solutions that are reliable and scalable
• Lead cross-functional initiatives requiring coordination across multiple teams and shared systems
• Mentor other engineers and define quality standards and best practices
• Own long-term maintainability, observability, and cost efficiency of AI systems
• Monitor model quality drift, prompt alignment, alerting, and operational health

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• Minimum of 5 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining software systems
• Excellent backend expertise in at least one strongly typed language, preferably TypeScript
• Solid understanding of cloud computing primitives, especially AWS
• Strong understanding of agentic AI concepts such as tool use, function calling, state machines or graphs, retrieval and reranking, structured outputs, memory, guardrails, and evaluation
• Experience developing and deploying agentic workflows using frameworks such as LangChain, Mastra, or LangGraph

• Prior experience leading an AI systems team
• Experience shipping and operating multiple GenAI or LLM systems in production
• Hands-on experience debugging scaled LLM systems and participating in incident response
• Experience building human-in-the-loop evaluation pipelines
• Experience with RAG, embeddings, and model fine-tuning
• Experience implementing evaluation suites for agentic systems running in production