Senior AI Engineer, Location AI at Mapbox
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Mapbox is hiring a remote Senior AI Engineer to build evaluated, production LLM and data systems for location intelligence, agents, APIs and SDKs. The listing is country-specific.
- Location
- Mapbox UK / United Kingdom
- Employment
- FullTime
- Work arrangement
- remote
- Technologies
- Python, TypeScript, SQL
Role overview
Mapbox builds real-time location tools, data, SDKs and APIs used by developers and location-aware businesses. This senior AI engineering role works across Search and Places, Location and Navigation Intelligence, and platform capabilities for agents.
The role owns technical design and delivery of multi-component AI systems and is remote from the specified country.
Responsibilities
- Define product behavior, measurement frameworks and evaluation systems for non-deterministic AI behavior.
- Run continuous evaluations of APIs, SDKs, data representations and reference applications; identify integration gaps and drive fixes.
- Build ingestion, conflation, entity-resolution, quality-check, batch and streaming data pipelines.
- Evaluate external datasets, models and benchmarks and decide when to adopt them or build internally.
- Design model and tool boundaries, feedback loops, model harnesses and agent workflows, with latency and cost targets for each request.
- Build internal CLI, MCP and other tools, review designs and code, and participate in an on-call rotation for 24/7 availability.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline and 5+ years of software engineering experience owning production services, pipelines or SDKs.
- At least 2 years shipping LLM-backed features to real users in systems with error budgets and on-call responsibilities.
- Data engineering depth with SQL, a distributed processing framework and pipelines where data correctness matters.
- Experience with tool calling and agent orchestration, including stale context, hallucinated arguments, partial success and unbounded-loop failure modes.
- Strong Python or TypeScript skills, experience designing evaluations for non-deterministic systems, and the ability to diagnose distributed-request latency.
- Helpful experience includes geospatial data, public APIs or SDKs, MCP, CI evaluations, automotive systems, voice pipelines or constrained compute.
Benefits
- Remote flexibility from the listed country, with office access where applicable.
- Country-specific health, dental and income-protection coverage.
- Family-care support, maternity and paternity leave policies.
- Lifestyle spending support, mental-health support, paid time away and company holidays.
- Paid volunteering time and a learning environment focused on teaching and development.
About Mapbox
Mapbox provides location data, applications, SDKs and APIs for navigation, search, mapping and other location-aware products.
How to apply
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