AI Engineer

About this role

Employment


AI Engineer


Organization
Charity Navigator


Type
Full-Time


Salary
$105,000 to $125,000


/ Yearly


Four-day Week
No


About Us
Charity Navigator is the world’s largest and most-utilized independent nonprofit evaluator. The organization guides informed giving by evaluating the financial health, accountability, transparency, and impact of charities and provides data on over 245,000 nonprofits. As a 501(c)(3) public charity itself, Charity Navigator depends on support from individuals, corporations, and foundations to provide this trusted data free of charge to the public.


The Role


You will build and ship production LLM-powered and agentic features that make 2.4 million nonprofit profiles easier to search, compare, and understand – so a donor gets a clear answer instead of a spreadsheet.


This is application-layer work. You will partner with our existing engineering team rather than owning the pipelines yourself, so your time goes into the AI features people use.


You will report to the VP of Engineering and work closely with them and other senior engineers on system design, technical direction, and strategic AI opportunities. You will own AI features from day one, with regular design review and hands-on guidance on the harder architectural calls, and take on more architectural ownership as you build depth in production AI systems.


What You’ll Do

• Build and ship production LLM-powered and agentic features – prompt orchestration, tool calling, embeddings, structured outputs – favoring reusable components over one-off solutions.
• Build API Integrations, MCP servers, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows that connect our existing data systems to vector search, so that AI features surface and explain our published ratings data accurately and cite the source of each figure.
• Build and run evaluation infrastructure – prompt regression tests, LLM-as-a-judge ev...