Applied AI Engineer

About this role

About Vida

Vida is a publicly traded, early-stage AI company building an AI Agent Operating System that enables businesses and partners to create, deliver, and manage AI workforces. Our platform powers AI agents that communicate, automate workflows, connect with business software, and help teams operate more efficiently across channels and systems.

We are at an important stage of product and company. The core platform is expanding across voice, messaging, computer-use agents, reseller tooling, integrations, analytics, and reliability, security, and operational controls. As the product expands in scope and complexity, AI engineering will play a critical role in making agents more capable, reliable, measurable, and useful across real customer workflows.

About the Role

We are hiring an AI Engineer to help build the technical foundation for Vida’s AI agent platform.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on applied AI systems, LLM-powered workflows, model evaluation, data infrastructure, and production reliability. You will help design and implement the systems that make agents more accurate, observable, configurable, and scalable.

You will work across the full AI engineering stack: prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, model evaluation, data pipelines, model monitoring, experiment tracking, and production ML infrastructure. You should be comfortable writing production software while also experimenting quickly with new models, tools, and techniques.

In the near term, this is primarily an individual contributor role. You should be excited to work directly on core systems, collaborate closely with product and engineering, and help turn emerging AI capabilities into reliable customer-facing product experiences.

You will partner closely with product, engineering, sales, customer-facing teams, and company leadership.

This is an ideal role for an engineer who wants broad ownership, high leverage, and the opportunity to build appli...