# AI Engineer 6 - AI Foundation & Tooling, Ads Platform at Netflix

- Company: Netflix
- What the company does: Watch Netflix movies & TV shows online or stream right to your smart TV, game console, PC, Mac, mobile, tablet and more. Backed by IVP and Redpoint.
- Company website: https://www.netflix.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: USA - Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://netflix.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Netflix/job/USA---Remote/Software-Engineer-6---Ads-Platform-Engineering_AJRT30201
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/netflix-ai-engineer-6-ai-foundation-and-tooling-ads-platform/

## About the role

We're looking for a Staff AI Engineer to join us as the first dedicated AI engineer. Your core mission is to build the AI infrastructure and agentic workflows that transform how our team develops and operates software.

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years of significant focus on applied AI systems
- Proven experience building and deploying agentic AI systems in production — agent architectures, tool integration, orchestration, and evaluation frameworks
- Hands-on experience setting up AI infrastructure for end-to-end software development workflows (AI coding assistants, context engineering, automated testing)
- Strong software engineering fundamentals — you build production-grade systems, not just prototypes
- Deep experience with retrieval-augmented generation — document indexing, embedding strategies, retrieval pipelines, and grounding techniques
- Proficiency in Python and/or JVM languages