Software Engineer, AI Platforms

The New York Times • New York, NY

77d • $110,000 - $130,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The New AI Products and Platforms mission is a central hub for new, high-ambition AI opportunities and services at The Times. We are hiring a Software Engineer to help build the backend services and infrastructure that will form our internal AI Platform. This platform will enable teams across the company to build, deploy, and manage applications that use large language models (LLMs) to advance our journalism and our business. You will report to the Director of AI Platforms and work with a team of engineers, designers, product and project managers, data scientists, and newsroom stakeholders to make investments in AI possible across The Times. This is a hybrid position based in our New York City headquarters. You can typically expect to come into the office two days per week.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience, with a strong focus on backend development.
• 2+ years of experience in one or more backend programming languages such as Python or Go.
• 2+ years of experience building and maintaining backend services and APIs.
• 1+ years of experience building applications with Large Language Models (LLMs) and familiarity with the surrounding ecosystem (e.g., orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation).

Nice To Haves

• Experience with MLOps, including building systems for model and prompt evaluation, tracing, and monitoring.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with cloud computing platforms like GCP or AWS and their associated services (e.g., Cloud Functions, S3, RDS).
• Familiarity with LLM orchestration and agentic frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable and reliable backend services and APIs for the central AI Platform.
• Contribute to the development of core platform components, including systems for prompt and workflow management, evaluation and tracing, and monitoring for cost, usage, and performance.
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code, primarily in backend languages like Python or Go.
• Work with your team to ensure a high degree of code quality, security, and system observability.
• Review code written by other software engineers on the team and provide constructive feedback.
• Contribute to robust testing strategies to ensure service reliability.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Benefits

• 401k
• health_insurance
• dental_insurance
• vision_insurance
• paid_holidays
• flexible_scheduling
• professional_development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees