Senior AI Engineer

Senior AI Engineer

Employment Type: Full-time, Remote (US-based only)

Compensation: $190k – $220k base + competitive equity

Visa: Not available (cannot sponsor or transfer)

Company Overview

Reforge is a $60M-funded AI + education startup transforming how product teams learn and build. Beyond training programs, Reforge delivers AI-powered tools that help teams ship software faster with insights from top industry practitioners. Founded in 2016, fully remote-first, ~30 employees.

Role Summary

The Senior AI Engineer will be responsible for designing, building, and optimizing LLM-powered features, ensuring high performance and reliability. The role is hands-on in TypeScript and Python, with a strong emphasis on prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and evaluation frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

• Prompt Engineering: Craft, test, and refine system prompts for LLM use cases

• LLM-Powered Features: Collaborate with Product + Eng teams to integrate AI into Insight Analytics platform

• Continuous Improvement: Evaluate outputs, tune models, and refine pipelines for accuracy + UX

• Model Evaluation: Create frameworks + automated testing pipelines for LLM performance monitoring

• Coding & Integration: Write production code in TypeScript + Python, building RAG pipelines, vector embedding workflows, and backend integrations

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 5+ years software engineering experience, with 2+ years focused on AI/LLMs

• Strong in TypeScript + Python coding (shipping production features)

• Expertise with LLMs, RAG, embeddings, NLP, vector DBs

• Experience designing evaluation frameworks for AI systems

• Strong collaborator, thrives in distributed/async communication environments

• Startup experience preferred; self-motivated + product-focused

Culture & Work Style

• Remote-first (US-based time zones)

• Fast-paced, customer-first innovation mindset

• Team of ~30, lean and collaborative

• Flexible PTO + 401k + healthcare