Software Engineer, AI PlatformNew$175K–$213K

The opportunity

Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working,…

What you'll do

  • Agent Optimization Framework: A system that optimizes AI products for quality, speed, and cost, using metrics from production and evals, given the context of the invocation.

  • AI Agent Integrations and Accessibility: Products and tools that bring the power of Mixpanel to wherever it is most effective for our customers, including a Mixpanel slackbot, MCP, and a public skills library.

  • AI Engine: Services that centralize core AI and LLM functionality at Mixpanel: in order to accelerate AI development, compound the value of AI efforts, and provide customers with a consistent experience.

  • Platform Architecture: Design and develop the core backend services, APIs, and microservices that enable product teams to easily and securely leverage AI models.

  • Agent Orchestration: Build scalable frameworks and tools to support multi-step agent workflows, including task decomposition, tool invocation, and persistent memory.

  • Evaluation & Reliability: Build robust evaluation systems to continuously measure reasoning quality, hallucination rates, and task success.

What they're looking for

  • Operational Excellence: Architect high-performance serving infrastructure with strict guarantees around latency, throughput, cost-efficiency, and error handling.
  • Observability & MLOps: Ensure comprehensive monitoring, structured logging, and distributed tracing across all deployed AI models.
  • Collaboration: Partner with designers, product managers, and other engineers to build self-serve infrastructure that transforms our AI development cycle.
  • Leadership: Advocate for software engineering best practices, conduct: thorough design and code reviews, and mentor junior engineers.