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Guild · 4 days ago

Senior AI Native Engineer

Denver, CO

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$129K/yr - $189K/yr

8+ years exp

Guild is a leading talent development company focused on creating opportunities for talent across the United States. They are seeking a Senior Engineer to join their AI Native Experiences team, where the role involves building AI-native features that enhance user interactions with Guild’s platform through intelligent and responsive interfaces.

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H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Build and ship user-facing experiences powered by capabilities like summarization, personalization, semantic search, and classification. Ensure these features deliver intuitive, real-time, and context-aware responses that enhance user decision-making and engagement

Create and maintain reusable components and integration patterns for embedding AI into frontends across Guild’s platform. Ensure these solutions are easy to adopt by other product teams, supporting scalability across multiple products and client implementations

Partner with MLOps to define reliable model interface standards and deploy internal/external APIs with performance and cost in mind. Work closely with product, UX, and external partners to align AI-driven solutions with client needs, user expectations, and business priorities

Integrate and monitor third-party AI services (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic), ensuring robust error handling, response accuracy, and system observability. Proactively address performance issues or model drifts to ensure features meet enterprise-grade reliability standards

Collaborate with design to create AI interactions that are simple, transparent, and responsive to user context. Champion responsible AI practices that prioritize user trust, privacy, and inclusivity

Share expertise in AI integration, prompt engineering, and model orchestration to support peer growth and onboarding of rotating team members. Contribute to a culture of learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement

Stay ahead of AI and frontend trends, identifying practical innovations in areas like semantic search and conversational interfaces. Propose and prototype ideas that push the boundaries of AI-native product experiences while balancing competing priorities across clients and teams

Advocate for the transformative potential of AI in education and workforce advancement

Take initiatives from prototyping through deployment and iteration of AI-powered features using expertise, on-going research and pro-active problem solving

Qualification

Frontend developmentMachine Learning integrationAI servicesReactTypeScriptREST/GraphQLNLPRecommender systemsGenerative AIPrompt engineeringCost optimizationUser empathyCollaboration

Required

8+ years in software development, with strength in frontend or full-stack work. Proficient in modern web technologies (e.g. React, TypeScript) and backend services (REST/GraphQL)

Hands-on expertise integrating ML models or AI services into production applications and delivering tangible business or user value. Familiar with NLP, recommender systems, and generative AI

Skilled in using model APIs and applying concepts like embeddings, prompt engineering, fallback strategies, and cost optimization

Proven ability to design systems, libraries, or components for reuse across teams and products

Experience creating adaptive, context-aware interfaces that surface AI outputs naturally and effectively enhance user journeys

Demonstrated experience working effectively with product, design, and other stakeholder teams to ship production-ready AI features. Adept at articulating complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Heath and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)

Access to a 401k to help save for the future

Vacation policy to rest and recharge

8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover

Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.

Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services

Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth

Company

Guild

Guild is a learning platform that offers classes, programs, and degrees for working adults.

Founded in 2015

Denver, Colorado, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.guild.com

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