Senior AI Engineer

About the Role

Join GitLab as a Senior AI Engineer to help build the foundation for an AI-first company, delivering internal AI-powered solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose business problems and map workflows to identify constraints before building solutions.
• Own AI initiatives end-to-end, from discovery and technical design through implementation, deployment, and iteration.
• Design, develop, and ship AI-powered solutions quickly, focusing on practical outcomes and measurable business value.
• Integrate AI capabilities into existing systems and workflows using APIs, orchestration tools, and modern AI platforms.
• Partner closely with stakeholders to understand constraints and align on outcomes.
• Define and track success through business metrics, flow metrics, and feedback loops.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in at least one modern scripting language (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar).
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, GraphQL, and integration patterns.
• Deep, practical experience with modern AI technologies, including prompt engineering, model selection, and agentic architecture patterns.
• Practical fluency across the LLM ecosystem (e.g., Anthropic, OpenAI, open-source alternatives).
• Critical thinking about AI safety, risk awareness, and designing appropriate guardrails.
• Ability to perform systems thinking, map complex processes, and identify bottlenecks.
• Competent and confident coding skills to build working solutions end-to-end.
• A technologist at heart, genuinely invested in both foundational and cutting-edge technology.