AI Engineer - Perm

About the job

We’re looking for a passionate and curious AI Engineer to join our team and help us explore, prototype, and implement AI-driven features across Appwrite’s products. This role is perfect for someone excited about AI, developer tooling, and open-source innovation.

You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to bring AI-powered capabilities to life from intelligent documentation assistants to code generation, anomaly detection, search improvements, and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI/ML models and systems that enhance the Appwrite platform.
• Identify opportunities to integrate AI features into the developer experience (e.g., intelligent code suggestions, documentation search, etc).
• Work closely with Product and Engineering teams to prototype and ship AI-driven features.
• Fine-tune and evaluate open-source as well as commercial LLMs.
• Monitor drift, performance, accuracy, and efficiency of AI systems in production.
• Stay updated with the latest AI research and tools, bringing relevant insights back to the team.
• Collaborate with the community on open-source projects, contributions, and feedback loops.

Requirements

• Software engineer with 3+ years of experience, including 1+ year in AI/ML and related areas.
• Strong programming skills in Python (or similar), with experience in ML frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, or HuggingFace.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, and prompt engineering.
• Familiarity with deploying models in production environments (Docker, Kubernetes etc.).
• Passion for developer tools, open-source culture, and improving developer workflows.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a remote-first environment.
• Experience contributing to open-source AI projects.
• Experience with LangChain, Pinecone, or similar AI frameworks/infrastructure.
• Past experience building AI features into developer platforms or tools.

Benefits

🏠 100% Remote

• Our entire company is distributed, so we take remote work seriously. If you’d rather not work from home, we will cover the cost of a coworking or office space.

📈 Stock Options

• Get generous stock options for a company that is growing blazing fast and is backed by top VCs

🕰 Flexible Hours & Days

• We're a remote team working in different time zones, from UTC+06:00 to UTC-06:00. Choose the hours and days that work best for you!

🏥 Healthcare

• Employees receive generous medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. Full-time contractors will have the cost of healthcare factored into their salary. Our recruiting team can help confirm which applies to you.

❤️ Github Sponsorship of Your Choice

• We would love to give an annual sponsorship to any GitHub project of your choice!

🎓 Learning

• Appwrite provides $3,000 USD for employees to attend conferences, take classes, or otherwise further their education.

✈️ Gatherings

• We typically meet up couple times a year in person for work and fun! What will be our next location? NYC, London, LA, or Barcelona? Help us decide!

🖥 Top Notch Equipment

• Appwrite will let you choose a new laptop of your choice (up to $3,000 USD) and will reimburse up to $500 USD for office expenses.

🧦 Unlimited SWAGS

• At Appwrite, we really love Swags. Each new team member gets unlimited credits to grab any official Appwrite Swag that they wish.

Apply for the job

Do you want to join our team as our new AI Engineer? Then we'd love to hear about you!