AI Software Engineer

Stylitics

6d • $120,000 - $150,000

About The Position

Stylitics is seeking an AI Software Engineer with prior experience to join their innovation division, AI Labs. This role will focus on empowering AI models with necessary data, tools, and expertise. The engineer will combine software engineering, product sensitivity, and prompt design skills to drive innovation in AI model-based applications for various retail use cases and clients. This is a full-stack role requiring both front-end skills for prototyping and back-end skills for databases, application architecture, and scalable systems. The position is a hands-on individual contributor role reporting directly to the CTO, offering high visibility and the opportunity to influence the development of next-generation AI systems. The role is ideal for someone excited about exploring generative AI frontiers and making direct, production-level contributions.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

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 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

Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity
• employment is based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination because of race, religion, color, gender, national origin, age, citizenship, ancestry, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, pregnancy and related medical conditions, veteran status, genetic information, disability or any other reason prohibited by federal, state or local law.
• recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level