Senior AI Engineer (Core Engine)

JetBrains is a company focused on developing robust and effective developer tools since 2000. They are building AI coding agents and tools that provide deeper context about codebases, aiming to improve agent speed and task performance at scale across hundreds of thousands of repositories.

• At least five years of hands-on experience in NLP.
• Experience in information retrieval systems.
• Strong experience in LLM prompt and tool engineering, as well as with AI agents.
• Solid programming skills in Python and/or Kotlin with willingness to learn the unfamiliar language.
• Experience building and operating production-grade software systems.

Nice to have:

• Experience developing in Kotlin or Java.
• Experience working with code intelligence technologies such as AST and symbol graphs.

• Translate product needs into agentic tools and services and ship them to production.
• Scale prototypes to large numbers of users.
• Improve and test the semantic search service.
• Build evaluation pipelines for code retrieval and coding task performance.