AI Engineer

**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.