Staff AI Engineer - Agentic Shopping
Picnic Technologies
Staff AI Engineer - Agentic Shopping
Picnic is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to lead the technical direction for Agentic Shopping, building an AI-powered grocery shopping assistant. The role involves architecture, model strategy, rapid prototyping, and productionization of multi-turn conversational agents. Requires deep expertise in LLMs, RAG, Python, and technical leadership.
Staff AI Engineer - Agentic Shopping
Picnic is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to lead the technical direction for Agentic Shopping, building an AI-powered grocery shopping assistant. The role involves architecture, model strategy, rapid prototyping, and productionization of multi-turn conversational agents. Requires deep expertise in LLMs, RAG, Python, and technical leadership.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the technical direction for agentic shopping experiences that help millions of people plan and shop effortlessly.
- Lead the system architecture for multi-turn conversational agents, balancing latency, safety guardrails, and inference costs.
- Technically mentor engineers across the organization to execute on building production-grade agentic systems.
- Drive a fast-paced, iterative engineering cadence. Build initial prototypes, establish architectural patterns, and write production code when necessary to unblock complex technical challenges.
- Design and implement systems architectures for multi-turn, conversational agents using open-weight models and techniques like fine-tuning, distillation, and RAG.
- Establish continuous offline and online evaluation for mission completion, basket correctness, customer effort, clarification quality, acceptance and corrections, safety, reliability, latency and cost.
- Collaborate with product, design, and product teams to define technical trade-offs, align on agent capabilities, and ensure a seamless, safe user experience.