Sr. Applied AI/ML Scientist (B2B)

2 days, 4 hours ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Sprout Social

Sprout Social

Sprout Social offers a comprehensive social media management and engagement platform that enables businesses to effectively manage their social media presence, streamline customer care, and derive actionable insights from analytics to drive growth.

Professional Services
251-1K
Founded 2010

Description

  • Architect and ship ambient and interactive agentic workflows for monitoring, enrichment, summarization, and real-time user queries.
  • Design LLM-powered content enrichments for customer reports, alerts, and intelligence briefings.
  • Lead technical direction for tool-augmented LLM systems, including MCP-compatible services, function calling, and multi-step reasoning.
  • Define prompting standards, output schemas, reusable development patterns, and architecture decisions across retrieval, agents, fine-tuning, and classical NLP.
  • Establish evaluation practices including benchmarks, online experiments, regression detection, automated testing, and human review.
  • Build guardrails and observability for safety, factual grounding, hallucination reduction, cost, latency, quality, and model drift.
  • Evolve embedding and semantic search infrastructure, including chunking, hybrid search, and reranking.
  • Partner with Product and UX to deliver AI features and lead technical design discussions.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical writing, and guidance on AI system reliability.
  • Own AI initiatives from concept through production and contribute to the long-term AI architecture and roadmap.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience building and operating production software systems.
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered features in real-world applications.
  • Strong backend engineering skills, preferably with Python.
  • Experience with LLM APIs, transformer techniques, embedding models, similarity search, vector databases, prompt engineering, structured outputs, LLM evaluation, or LLMOps.
  • Experience with vector databases such as ChromaDB, Pinecone, or Weaviate and observability tools such as Langfuse or Datadog.
  • Track record of owning production systems end to end and making architectural trade-offs involving model choice, cost, latency, and quality.
  • Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical design reviews and collaborating with Product and UX.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, or a related field preferred.
  • Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, MCP, tool-calling architectures, agentic workflows, cloud platforms, semantic search, or large-scale text processing preferred.
  • Background in media analytics, content intelligence, or startup/high-growth environments preferred.

Benefits

  • Hiring range of 26,600–33,300 PLN net monthly; broader base range of 26,600–40,000 PLN net monthly.
  • Eligibility for restricted stock units (RSUs).
  • 26 paid days off annually, plus bank holidays and company-wide rest and recharge days.
  • Paid parental leave: 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.
  • Remote-first or hybrid work, including a $550 USD home-office stipend and monthly internet reimbursement.
  • $600 USD annual lifestyle spending account for wellness, health expenses, hobbies, or fitness.
  • Mental health resources, wellness programs, international team meetups, and Kraków office lunch support.

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