Mercury
Tech / AI / Software
SeniorSoftwareEngineer-AIEngineering
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“Senior Software Engineer - AI Engineering at Mercury. Skills: AI platform, enablement layer, extend, harden, and scale, partner teams adopt, Build and evolve MCP servers, Expand and operate LLM gateway infrastructure, Turn early patterns into durable defaults, Strengthen shared company knowledge layer, Shape and maintain structured context artifacts, Improve internal knowledge discoverability and retrieval, Partner with domain teams to standardize key sources of truth, Enable faster prototyping ”
Industry & Context.
find the highest-leverage work; get it done
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of backend development experience in complex, production systems, Hands-on experience building LLM-powered systems—RAG pipelines, agents, eval frameworks—and has shipped at least one of these to production, Understands the real tradeoffs in AI deployments: cost modeling, observability, latency, and safety
Nice to Have
Fluent across programming languages and can navigate platform engineering, infrastructure, and developer tooling without needing a map
What You'll Do.
Extend the AI platform foundation
Build and evolve MCP servers that connect internal systems and data sources into a coherent interface for agents and engineers
Expand and operate our LLM gateway infrastructure: routing
and observability across teams
Turn early patterns into durable defaults: shared prompt libraries
and policy-as-code so teams can move fast safely
Strengthen the shared company knowledge layer
Shape and maintain structured context artifacts—clean
agent-consumable—so LLMs working in Mercury's systems can reason accurately about our domain
Improve internal knowledge discoverability and retrieval so both humans and agents can quickly find accurate answers
Partner with domain teams to standardize key sources of truth
Enable faster prototyping and iteration across the company
Build and refine sandbox environments and tooling that let engineers experiment with AI safely and at speed
Create self-service scaffolding so non-engineers—PMs
finance—can prototype and deploy AI-powered workflows with minimal hand-holding
Build playgrounds and evaluation harnesses so internal AI agents can be tested and iterated in controlled environments before hitting production
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
partner teams adopt; Partner with domain teams to standardize key sources of truth; partner teams adopt it
Communication Scope
Communicates clearly across technical and non-technical audiences—you can explain what you built and why it matters
Full Job Description
In 1600, William Gilbert published De Magnete—the first systematic study of magnetism. He didn't just theorize; he built instruments, ran experiments, and shared what he learned so that others could go further. Three centuries later, those foundations helped power the modern world. At Mercury, we're making a deliberate, company-wide bet on AI. Frontier users are already pushing boundaries—building agents, automating workflows, moving fast. But they're doing it in silos. This role exists to change that: to take those scattered experiments and turn them into shared infrastructure, shared context, and shared capability. The goal is a multiplier effect—where the most ambitious AI work inside Mercury lifts the velocity of everyone else. What you'll do You'll join a team that has already started building Mercury's internal AI platform and enablement layer. Your work will be to extend, harden, and scale what's in motion, and to help partner teams adopt it. Extend the AI platform foundation Build and evolve MCP servers that connect internal systems and data sources into a coherent interface for agents and engineers. Expand and operate our LLM gateway infrastructure: routing, rate limiting, cost attribution, and observability across teams. Turn early patterns into durable defaults: shared prompt libraries, guardrails, and policy-as-code so teams can move fast safely. Strengthen the shared company knowledge layer Shape and maintain structured context artifacts—clean, reliable, agent-consumable—so LLMs working in Mercury's systems can reason accurately about our domain. Improve internal knowledge discoverability and retrieval so both humans and agents can quickly find accurate answers. Partner with domain teams to standardize key sources of truth, and keep them fresh. Enable faster prototyping and iteration across the company Build and refine sandbox environments and tooling that let engineers experiment with AI safely and at speed. Create self-service scaffolding so non-engin
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