Job brief: Staff Engineer, AI Labs

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• Listed on Via's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (3 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-07.
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What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $250,000 to $300,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: New York, New York · New York City
• Posted: 2026-08-18 · over 60 days ago

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• You have 10+ years of hands-on experience building full stack applications and - with a track record of owning features end-to-end rather than working in isolation on models or re…
• 3+ years of working with AI tools and/or building AI powered products
• You have deep expertise across the AI stack - including LLMs, predictive modelling, and the data infrastructure required to support them in real-world environments.

Conditions

• You thrive when working directly with users and customers, and are comfortable with travel to collaborate on-site.

Main duties

• Build and ship production-grade AI products end-to-end - owning everything from problem framing and data pipeline design through to deployment and iteration …
• Work closely with our partners in a forward-deployed manner to deeply understand problems and constraints and iterate quickly on scalable agentic solutions.
• Lead technical scoping workshops, directly interfacing with city leaders to solve challenging local problems with agentic workflows.
• Work across a fast-moving and varied roadmap, contributing to intelligent tooling involving data consolidation, predictive modelling, real-time decision-maki…
• Collaborate directly with product, data science, and operations teams to identify and prioritize the highest-impact AI opportunities across the business.

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in New York, NY: $190k a year (479 listings, 39 employers). This listing is 45% higher.
• Across Via's 136 open listings, 53% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Via hires

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