# Staff AI Engineer - Utah at Podium

- Company: Podium
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Y Combinator and GV.
- Company website: http://www.podium.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Lehi, Utah
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2025-12-22
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/podium81/jobs/7490572
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/podium-staff-ai-engineer-utah/

## About the role

We are looking for a talented Staff AI Engineer to help build and scale our AI Agent platform—a powerful system that autonomously interacts with customers, handling millions of conversations every month. In this role, you’ll design and deliver the software that enables local businesses to manage complex customer interactions automatically, book more appointments, and serve their customers more effectively across multiple channels (e.g., voice, SMS, chat).

## What they're looking for

- 2+ years of professional experience deploying and maintaining AI agents in production environments that interact with tools, APIs, or real-world workflows
- Practical experience designing and implementing evaluations for LLM behavior — including accuracy, safety, reliability, and cost monitoring
- Strong understanding of prompt design, context engineering, and guardrail strategies for dependable, interpretable agent behavior
- Experience with modern agent frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen, including multi-step reasoning, memory, and orchestration patterns
- Hands-on experience with fine-tuning and data curation for improving model performance

Tags: Engineering