Senior AI Engineer

Company Overview

Imagine a piloted air taxi that takes off vertically, then quietly carries you and your fellow passengers over the congested city streets below, enabling you to spend more time with the people and places that matter most. At Joby, we've been working to make that dream a reality since 2009 and we're now in the final stages of certifying our aircraft with the FAA. With plans to launch our aircraft in the US and Dubai, we're now scaling manufacturing and preparing for the launch of our commercial service.

Overview

We’re looking for a Senior AI Engineer to help bring pragmatic, production-grade AI capabilities into the systems that power Joby’s manufacturing and enterprise workflows. In this role, you’ll partner closely with software engineers, product, and operations teams to identify high-impact opportunities, build reliable AI services, and ensure they are safe, observable, and maintainable in real-world use. You’ll work in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment at the intersection of software, data, and aircraft manufacturing—where the output of your work directly improves how we build and scale.

Responsibilities

• Identify, prototype, and deploy AI/ML solutions into production to improve internal workflows (e.g., knowledge retrieval, document automation, quality/process insights, decision support).
• Architect and implement the company’s AI platform foundations so teams can ship AI safely and consistently.
• Design and build AI services that are scalable, secure, and observable.
• Build and maintain core ML/LLM infrastructure (model gateways, prompt/agent orchestration patterns, feature/embedding pipelines, vector search, caching, and rate limiting).
• Design and operationalize event-based agent frameworks that can react to changes across internal systems.
• Develop evaluation strategies for LLM and ML systems (offline metrics, human-in-the-loop review, regression testing, prompt/model benchmarking).
• Implement guardrails and safety mechanisms (policy checks, data controls, failure-mode analysis, fallback behaviors).
• Own end-to-end delivery: data access/quality, model selection or training, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Contribute to engineering best practices: leading the effective use of AI coding tools to maximize developer velocity, code and data pipeline reviews, probabilistic testing and model evaluations, MLOps/operational readiness, and on-call/operational readiness.

Required

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong Python skills and experience building ML/AI systems (LLMs and/or classical ML), including implementing and operating the surrounding infrastructure.
• Experience designing and implementing production ML/LLM systems end-to-end (service architecture, data pipelines, deployment, monitoring, and incident response).
• Solid understanding of APIs, data access patterns, and reliable system design.
• Strong communication skills and a track record of collaborating across functions to deliver outcomes.

Desired

• Experience with modern ML tooling (PyTorch, Hugging Face) and LLM frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex).
• Experience with MLOps practices: data/versioning, model evaluation, CI/CD for ML, reproducible training/inference pipelines.
• Experience building internal AI frameworks/platforms (shared components, standards, guardrails, evaluation, and enablement) used by multiple teams.
• Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, vector databases, and search/re-ranking approaches.
• Experience integrating AI into real workflows (human-in-the-loop, prompt evaluation, guardrails, failure-mode analysis).
• Familiarity with data systems (streaming and/or batch) and analytics ecosystems.

Additional Information

Compensation at Joby is a combination of base pay and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The target base pay for this position is $152,700 - $249,200/yr.

The compensation package will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Joby also offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan with a company match, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, and more.

Joby is an Equal Opportunity Employer