AI Engineer

Mento•San Francisco, CA

11d•Remote

About The Position

Mento is seeking a product-minded senior software engineer with experience working with data to help build a differentiated and impactful AI & software coaching product. This role involves developing AI and software-based tools to augment human coaches. The engineer will join a small engineering team and collaborate closely with design and coaching teams to create a unique and valuable product experience that brings the power of coaching to life within a software platform. The company is remote-first, based in the US, Canada, and Latin America, with $8M in funding.

Requirements

Experienced software engineer with experience shipping data-related products into production with real users.
Comfortable working in dynamic programming languages.
Experience with server-side web applications.
Understanding of core data engineering and software architecture concepts for modern data-based applications.
Experience productively integrating LLM-based coding tools (e.g., cursor, cody) into workflow.
Ability to operate well with some ambiguity.

Nice To Haves

Experience building early-stage products.
Comfortable making technical trade-offs and taking risks.
Experience with event-driven architectures.
Experience with traditional web stacks like Ruby on Rails or Laravel.
Opinions on designing search indexes and setting up data pipelines.

Responsibilities

Building features and experiences from 0-to-1, shipping regularly.
Designing AI-enabled capabilities, focusing on adaptability, reuse, and scalability.
Translating coaching insights into AI Agents by working with active coaches.
Building pipelines and integrations to import and export data into the product, connecting with productivity and learning and development tools.
Educating the team on best practices around data and AI through mentorship, code reviews, and lunch and learns.