Staff Applied AI Engineer

Amplitude is the leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. Over 4,000 customers, including Atlassian, NBCUniversal, Under Armour, Shopify, and Jersey Mike’s, rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products, they can deliver better product experiences that drive growth. Amplitude is the best-in-class analytics solution for product, data, and marketing teams, ranked #1 in multiple categories in G2’s Spring 2025 Report. Learn how to optimize your digital products and business at amplitude.com.

As an organization, we approach challenges with humility, take ownership of our contributions, and embrace a growth mindset that pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.

Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

Everyone’s building with AI. Most are shipping unused feature add-ons, slapped onto their products with pretty animations.

We’re not doing that. We’re building an intelligent platform that handles orchestration, evals, monitoring, and internal + customer-facing agents. We want systems that scale, tools that abstract away AI weirdness, and a dev experience that’s delightful.

You’ll be part of a small, scrappy, high-context team working across the entire LLM stack — from prompt design to infra to monitoring to customer-facing UX. We move fast, own our work, and prioritize quality + learning over throwing models at the wall. 

It’s ambitious, but we think this team has the potential to build something that becomes bigger than Amplitude’s core business in a short period of time. And we have the support of the company to do that.

What will you do?

• Own core backend systems and infra for our agent orchestration layer
• Help lay the foundation of our internal AI platform (orchestration, evals, monitoring, prompting, guardrails)
• Build out individual tools and agents and workflows that interface with the rest of the Amplitude platform
• Work closely with product engineers to connect backend to UI in a seamless dev loop
• Define and implement best practices for LLMOps (tooling, evals, latency mgmt, tracing)
• Ship fast and safely — we favor momentum and reliability over bureaucracy
• Be an early voice in the architectural and product direction of this team

You might be a fit if:

• You have 5+ years of backend or platform engineering experience, ideally in high-scale, high ambiguity, or fast-moving environments
• You’ve shipped AI/LLM systems (RAG, eval pipelines, agents, etc) or are hungry to learn
• You love building internal tools and abstractions that make other devs faster and safer
• You understand the weirdness of LLMs — non-determinism, latency, token costs — and how to design around them
• You write clear, maintainable code and care deeply about testing and observability
• You like owning ambiguous problems end-to-end, not just closing JIRA tickets

Bonus if:

• You’ve worked in data or infra teams before
• You’ve built agent frameworks or LLM-based systems
• You’ve been part of a small startup or skunkworks team and thrived in uncertainty
• You’ve been a founder or early-stage at a startup

Why us?

• Scale — We’re a $300M+ ARR business and are working closely with our customers to co-develop this next product.
• Data — the existing analytics infra we’ve built puts us in a unique position to build useful AI products
• Org commitment — We are all in on this and devoting lots of company $ to it. This isn’t a sideshow research project.
• Tight team — We’re keeping the team intentionally small and insulating it from org bloat — no roadmap review, etc.
• Work closely with the Amplitude co-founders

We’re betting the next chapter of Amplitude is AI-native — and this team is leading that charge

 

Who We Are

The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view. 

The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platform—we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.

 

We care about the well-being of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.

 

Some of our benefit programs include:

• Excellent ​M​edical, ​D​ental and ​V​ision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee ​M​edical, ​D​ental,​ ​​​​​​​​Vision on select plans
• Flexible time off, ​p​aid holidays, and more
• Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), home office equipment (annual), and much more
• Excellent Parental benefits including​:​ 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support 
• Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program​ (ESPP)​

 

Other fun facts about Amplitude: 

• We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.
• Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 15 quarters in a row on G2.
• We're focused on growth. Check us out in Deloitte’s 2023 Technology Fast 500™
• We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.
• We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives. 
• We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off. 
• We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL. 
• We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
• Our mascot is the datamonster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.

 

"This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.

Based on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range: $219,000 - $330,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

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Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $244,000 - $368,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. California salary range: $219,000 - $330,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state. Washington salary range: $219,000 - $330,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only: unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans. Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan."                    
                    
                   

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