Senior AI Native Engineer

Guild • Denver, CO

121d • $194,400 - $211,200

About The Position

Guild is hiring a Senior Engineer to join our AI Native Experiences team. This is a high-impact role for an experienced engineer that is excited to build AI-native features that redefine how users interact with Guild’s platform. You’ll develop intelligent, dynamic, and responsive interfaces that use machine learning to personalize products and systems in real time; helping learners navigate education and career opportunities with clarity and support. As part of a cross-functional team, you’ll partner closely with product, design, and MLOps to bring AI capabilities into our frontend and full-stack architecture. You’ll build production-grade systems that are scalable, maintainable, and reusable; helping establish patterns and tools that enable other teams across Guild to build with AI. This role is ideal for someone who combines strong technical skills with deep empathy for users and fellow engineers, and who is passionate about shaping the future of AI-powered experiences in a mission-driven environment.

Requirements

• 8+ years in software development, with strength in frontend or full-stack work.
• Proficient in modern web technologies (e.g. React, TypeScript) and backend services (REST/GraphQL).
• Hands-on expertise integrating ML models or AI services into production applications.
• Familiar with NLP, recommender systems, and generative AI.
• Skilled in using model APIs and applying concepts like embeddings, prompt engineering, fallback strategies, and cost optimization.
• Proven ability to design systems, libraries, or components for reuse across teams and products.
• Experience creating adaptive, context-aware interfaces that surface AI outputs naturally.
• Demonstrated experience working effectively with product, design, and other stakeholder teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship user-facing experiences powered by capabilities like summarization, personalization, semantic search, and classification.
• Create and maintain reusable components and integration patterns for embedding AI into frontends across Guild’s platform.
• Partner with MLOps to define reliable model interface standards and deploy internal/external APIs with performance and cost in mind.
• Integrate and monitor third-party AI services (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic), ensuring robust error handling, response accuracy, and system observability.
• Collaborate with design to create AI interactions that are simple, transparent, and responsive to user context.
• Share expertise in AI integration, prompt engineering, and model orchestration to support peer growth and onboarding of rotating team members.
• Stay ahead of AI and frontend trends, identifying practical innovations in areas like semantic search and conversational interfaces.
• Advocate for the transformative potential of AI in education and workforce advancement.
• Take initiatives from prototyping through deployment and iteration of AI-powered features.

Benefits

• Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser.
• Access to a 401k to help save for the future.
• Vacation policy to rest and recharge.
• 8 days of fully-paid sick leave.
• Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents.
• Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services.
• Education benefits and tuition assistance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees