Mapbox
Senior AI Engineer, MapGPT
$175K–$237K
Mapbox US · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience; 2+ years shipping LLM-backed features.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline.
About the job
Own the design, delivery, evaluation, and operation of multi-component AI systems across Mapbox products, including LLM-powered agents, data pipelines, and developer tools.
What you'll do
- Define product behavior and build measurement and evaluation systems for non-deterministic AI, including regression gates and continuous evaluation.
- Build and operate data pipelines, model harnesses, tool integrations, and feedback loops; meet latency and cost targets.
- Own technical design and delivery, review code and designs, support other engineers, and participate in an on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline and 5+ years of software engineering experience, with production ownership of services, pipelines, or SDKs.
- 2+ years shipping LLM-backed features to real users in systems with error budgets, on-call rotations, and customers affected by regressions.
- Data engineering depth including SQL, at least one distributed processing framework, and experience with pipelines where incorrect records have significant consequences.
- Fluency with tool calling and agent orchestration; strong Python or TypeScript; experience designing evaluations for non-deterministic systems.
Nice to have
- Geospatial data experience, public API or SDK design, MCP or similar tool transports, or experience running evaluations in CI.
- Automotive, voice pipeline, constrained-compute/offline, or early external-integration experience.
Pay
$175,100 - $236,900 USD base salary
Tools
SQL, Python, TypeScript, MCP, OpenStreetMap, CarPlay, Android Auto
AI focus
Build and operate LLM-backed features and agent systems, including evaluation frameworks, orchestration and tool calling, model harnesses, feedback loops, and latency- and cost-aware inference.
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