Staff AI Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead technical scoping workshops, directly interfacing with city leaders to solve challenging local problems with agentic workflows.
• Write clean, scalable backend code that powers AI-driven features - designing APIs, managing data flows, and ensuring your systems perform reliably at scale.
• Help shape the technical culture of AI Labs from the ground up - contributing to how the team builds, reviews, ships, and iterates.
• Stay close to the frontier of AI development and bring new ideas, tools, and approaches into the team proactively.

Requirements

• You have 10+ years of hands-on experience building full stack applications and - with a track record of owning features end-to-end rather than working in isolation on models or research.
• 3+ years of working with AI tools and/or building AI powered products
• You're a strong engineer at your core - comfortable designing scalable APIs, working with distributed systems, and writing code that is clean, maintainable, and built to last.
• You're energized by ambiguity and early-stage environments - you don't need everything to be defined to do great work, and you take ownership without being asked.
• You bring the communication skills to work cross-functionally and the intellectual curiosity to keep pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI.
• You thrive when working directly with users and customers, and are comfortable with travel to collaborate on-site.

Staff AI Engineer

at Via, this is a rare opportunity to get in at the ground floor of something genuinely new: a dedicated space to move fast, experiment boldly, and build AI-powered products that could fundamentally change how Via and our partner cities operate. You'll have real autonomy, direct access to leadership, and the backing of a company that's already at scale - without the constraints that usually come with it. If you're experienced at building AI products end-to-end and you're energized by the idea of doing that with a blank canvas, this is the role for you.

About the Role

• Build and ship production-grade AI products end-to-end - owning everything from problem framing and data pipeline design through to deployment and iteration in live environments.
• Work closely with our partners in a forward-deployed manner to deeply understand problems and constraints and iterate quickly on scalable agentic solutions.
• Work across a fast-moving and varied roadmap, contributing to intelligent tooling involving data consolidation, predictive modelling, real-time decision-making, and LLM-powered experiences.
• Collaborate directly with product, data science, and operations teams to identify and prioritize the highest-impact AI opportunities across the business.

About You

You have deep expertise across the AI stack - including LLMs, predictive modelling, and the data infrastructure required to support them in real-world environments.

Compensation and Benefits

• (US only)
• Final salary will be determined by the candidate’s experience, knowledge, and skills. Salary reflected does not include equity or variable pay, where applicable.

Salary Range: $250,000 - $300,000

• We are proud to offer a generous and comprehensive benefits package, including free medical plans, 401K matching, catered lunch on Wednesdays, and many other perks.
• There has never been a more exciting time to be on the cutting edge of public mobility. Ready to join the ride?
• Via is an equal opportunity employer.