AI Engineer 6, AI Foundation & Tooling, Ads Platform

Netflix

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Los Gatos, CA
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Netflix is the world''s leading streaming entertainment service, offering a vast library of TV series, films, documentaries, and original content to subscribers in over 190 countries. Industry: Streaming Entertainment & Media

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TL;DR · AI Engineer 6, AI Foundation & Tooling, Ads Platform

The Staff AI Engineer joins the Ads Platform Engineering team to serve as the first dedicated AI engineer. This greenfield role involves architecting and building the foundational AI infrastructure and agentic workflows from scratch to transform software development and operations. You will design centralized context layers, implement agentic workflows for code generation and automated testing, and develop multi-agent orchestration for incident triage and root cause analysis. The work focuses on applied AI, utilizing large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic frameworks to solve infrastructure problems. Required skills include proficiency in Python or JVM languages, experience with document indexing and embedding strategies, and a strong background in building production-grade systems. You will drive team-wide adoption through architecture reviews and hands-on enablement.

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What you'll do

  • Architect and build a centralized context layer to provide AI agents with team-specific knowledge.
  • Design and implement agentic workflows for code generation, automated test creation, and PR pre-reviews.
  • Build AI-powered operational workflows for automated incident triage, log correlation, and root cause analysis.
  • Develop multi-agent orchestration systems to coordinate implementation, testing, and documentation tasks.
  • Set up standardized AI development environments to enable an AI-first workflow for all engineers.
  • Drive team-wide AI adoption through hands-on pairing sessions, architecture reviews, and workflow demonstrations.
  • Build production-grade systems using LLMs, agentic frameworks, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of significant focus on applied AI systems.
  • Proven experience building and deploying agentic AI systems in production, including architectures, tool integration, orchestration, and evaluation frameworks.
  • Hands-on experience setting up AI infrastructure for end-to-end software development workflows like AI coding assistants and automated testing.
  • Deep experience with retrieval-augmented generation, including document indexing, embedding strategies, retrieval pipelines, and grounding techniques.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals to build production-grade systems.
  • Proficiency in Python and/or JVM languages.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive technical adoption across a team through pairing, architecture reviews, and workflow demonstrations.
  • Prior experience as the first or early AI engineer on a team (preferred).

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