Senior AI Engineer

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Recognized as a top solution in G2's Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, fostering an environment of psychological safety, empathy, and human connection. Founded in 2012, Amplitude went public in September 2021 under the ticker $AMPL and has a global workforce with offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.

Introduction

Amplitude is a leading AI analytics platform empowering over 4,700 customers, including Atlassian and Burger King, to build superior products and digital experiences. With embedded AI Agents, teams can accelerate analysis, testing, and optimization of user experiences. Recognized as a top solution in G2's Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude values humility, ownership, growth mindset, and customer centricity.

Responsibilities

• Ship high-impact AI features and products that transform how customers and internal teams operate, from agentic workflows to embedded intelligence across the Amplitude platform.
• Design and build the foundational infrastructure for Amplitude's AI systems, including orchestration, evaluation, retrieval, context management, and broader product ecosystem integrations.
• Identify high-leverage opportunities by deeply understanding user workflows, customer pain points, and emerging AI capabilities.
• Establish reusable patterns, primitives, and components to enable other engineers to confidently build consistent AI features.
• Drive adoption and quality through close collaboration with product, design, and customer-facing teams, focusing on real usage and measurable outcomes.
• Set technical direction for AI systems at Amplitude, making strategic build vs. buy decisions, shaping evaluation strategies, and influencing the long-term roadmap.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years building production LLM or applied AI systems.
• Experience designing and scaling AI products, platforms, or developer tools with real users and reliability constraints.
• Deep familiarity with the modern AI ecosystem: model APIs, agent frameworks, evaluations, retrieval, prompting, tool use, and their tradeoffs.
• Strong product sense and systems thinking; ability to discern when to prototype, harden, or invest in durable infrastructure.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, capable of driving alignment across engineering, design, product, and go-to-market teams.

Nice to Have

• Leverage mindset: Views AI as a transformative tool for teams and customers, not just a feature.
• Context is key: Understands that AI is most powerful when grounded in real data, workflows, and decisions.
• Vision leads utility: Anticipates user needs and provides creative, forward-looking solutions.
• Build to learn: Prefers fast iteration, usage-based validation, and continuous improvement.
• Highest-leverage problem identification: Consistently identifies high-value opportunities and uses data to focus efforts effectively.
• Systems thinking: Connects disparate tools, data sources, and teams into cohesive, contextual AI-powered experiences.
• Hands-on design and implementation of agentic systems: Designs and ships robust agentic workflows with strong context handling, orchestration, tool use, and evaluation.
• Build vs. buy judgment: Possesses excellent judgment on when to adopt existing solutions versus building from scratch.
• Driving adoption & evangelism: Effective in guiding users, onboarding them, and evolving solutions based on feedback.
• Product thinking: Combines technical execution with product intuition to create genuinely loved AI experiences.

Benefits

• Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, and Vision on select plans.
• 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of eligible pay, up to $2,000 annually.
• Flexible time off and paid holidays.
• Generous monthly wellness stipends.
• Monthly commuter transit/parking stipends.
• Quarterly learning and development stipends.
• New hire home office equipment stipends.
• Excellent Parental benefits including 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, and Back-up Child Care support.
• Mental health and wellness benefits, including no-cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy sessions.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).

About Company

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, trusted by over 4,700 customers to optimize product and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents, Amplitude helps teams analyze, test, and act on insights faster. The company is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, fostering an environment of psychological safety, empathy, and human connection. Founded in 2012, Amplitude went public in September 2021 under the ticker $AMPL and has a global workforce with offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.

How to Apply

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