Applied AI Engineer

About the role

About the Role

We are hiring a Applied AI Engineer for a leading fintech company's AI Team to serve as the team's technical anchor in the United States.

You will lead two primary streams:

- AI Coding tooling and developer experience — bringing the engineering depth of Silicon Valley front-line teams (Claude Code, Cursor, Devin, Replit Agent, etc.) into ByLabs.

- AI application paradigm exploration and dogfooding — building small, frontier prototypes in internal scenarios that validate streaming UX, transparent agent steps, long-context memory, and other emerging patterns, and propagating them across the team through reference code, blog posts, and workshops.

This role is about craft and taste. You are not a platform architect, nor a BU project delivery engineer. You are the person who turns front-line Silicon Valley product engineering experience into multiplicative leverage for the entire AI Team.

Responsibilities

- Introduce AI Coding tooling best practices — Bring the engineering depth of Claude Code, Cursor, Devin, Replit Agent, and similar tools (Skills, hooks, subagents, long-context engineering, MCP integration) into ByLabs. Produce engineer onboarding playbooks and advanced-usage standards.

- Set the bar for the Skill Marketplace — Define Skill design conventions; personally deliver 5–10 reference-quality Skills as exemplars; raise team-wide Skill engineering quality through PR review.

- Prototype an AI-native engineering workflow — Reimagine the spec → design → implementation → review → testing → release → operations lifecycle around AI tools, producing a reference workflow APAC teams can adopt.

- Build internal AI application prototypes (employee-facing scenarios) — In OpenClaw, A2UI, role-bound AI assistants, and similar internal contexts, build small frontier prototypes that validate streaming UX, transparent agent steps, long-context memory, multi-agent collaboration, and other emerging patterns.

- Provide reference architecture code — When APAC teams face hard architectural choices in new AI scenarios, deliver runnable "this is how Silicon Valley does it" reference implementations — not documents, but working code.

- Cross-team craft propagation — One internal tech talk per month, one in-depth blog per quarter, and one onsite workshop in APAC per half year. Distill Silicon Valley AI application best practices into durable team assets.

- Architecture review participation — As the AI Team's anchor in the U.S., participate in ByLab's AI architecture review process and provide frontier perspective and taste-based feedback at the application layer.

Major Requirements

- Education: Top-tier CS / EE BS or above; MS preferred.

- 6+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years focused on LLM applications.

- Senior AI application engineering experience: Has shipped AI applications from 0 → 1 in production (not demos). Must have at least one tour of duty as a core engineer at a top-tier Silicon Valley AI company or a leading AI product team — examples include Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and similar.