AI Engineer, AI Foundry - MAIA Platform

About the role

AI Engineer, AI Foundry - MAIA Platform at Prophet. <h3 style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="[&:not(:first-child)]:mt-3" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{"ObjectId":"220c7d32-f62e-5fc0-a952-6489284bc9bf|1","ClassId":1073872969,"Properties":[201342446,"1",201342447,"5",201342448,"3",201342449,"1",469777841,"Times New Roman",469777842,"Times New Roman",469777843,"Times New Roman",469777844,"Times New Roman",201341986,"1",469769226,"Times New Roman",268442635,"24",469775450,"[&:not(:first-child)]:mt-3",201340122,"2",134233614,"true",469778129,"notfirst-childmt-3",335572020,"1",335559705,"1033",335559740,"240",201341983,"0",134233118,"true",134233117,"true",469778324,"Normal"]}">About t</span></span><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="[&:not(:first-child)]:mt-3" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{"ObjectId":"220c7d32-f62e-5fc0-a952-6489284bc9bf|1","ClassId":1073872969,"Properties":[201342446,"1",201342447,"5",201342448,"3",201342449,"1",469777841,"Times New Roman",469777842,"Times New Roman",469777843,"Times New Roman",469777844,"Times New Roman",201341986,"1",469769226,"Times New Roman",268442635,"24",469775450,"[&:not(:first-child)]:mt-3",201340122,"2",134233614,"true",469778129,"notfirst-childmt-3",335572020,"1",335559705,"1033",335559740,"240",201341983,"0",134233118,"true",134233117,"true",469778324,"Normal"]}">he Role</span></span></span></h3> <p>MAIA is Prophet's next leap in AI - an always-available assistant that amplifies human insight. By integrating directly into our workflows, it turns AI into true Augmented Intelligence, extending our creativity, judgment, and expertise. Built on a multi-agent framework, MAIA connects specialized tools, data sources, and reasoning systems through one interface, so our people can do more, think deeper, and deliver sharper outcomes for clients.</p> <p>As an AI Engineer on the AI Foundry team, you'll be embedded in the group building and evolving MAIA, Prophet's multi-agent AI platform. This is a hands-on, technically intensive role. You'll own experiments end to end, build and test agents, benchmark model performance, and ship client-facing AI applications on the platform.</p> <p>A defining feature of this role is its position at the intersection of technical and non-technical worlds. The listing location is New York.

Key facts

What you'll do

• <h3 style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="[&:not(:first-child)]:mt-3" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{"ObjectId":"220c7d32-f62e-5fc0-a952-6489284bc9bf|1","ClassId":1073872969,"Properties":[201342446,"1",201342447,"5",201342448,"3",201342449,"1",469777841,"Times New Roman",469777842,"Times New Roman",469777843,"Times New Roman",469777844,"Times New Roman",201341986,"1",469769226,"Times New Roman",268442635,"24",469775450,"[&:not(:first-child)]:mt-3",201340122,"2",134233614,"true",469778129,"notfirst-childmt-3",335572020,"1",335559705,"1033",335559740,"240",201341983,"0",134233118,"true",134233117,"true",469778324,"Normal"]}">About t</span></span><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="[&:not(:first-child)]:mt-3" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{"ObjectId":"220c7d32-f62e-5fc0-a952-6489284bc9bf|1","ClassId":1073872969,"Properties":[201342446,"1",201342447,"5",201342448,"3",201342449,"1",469777841,"Times New Roman",469777842,"Times New Roman",469777843,"Times New Roman",469777844,"Times New Roman",201341986,"1",469769226,"Times New Roman",268442635,"24",469775450,"[&:not(:first-child)]:mt-3",201340122,"2",134233614,"true",469778129,"notfirst-childmt-3",335572020,"1",335559705,"1033",335559740,"240",201341983,"0",134233118,"true",134233117,"true",469778324,"Normal"]}">he Role</span></span></span></h3> <p>MAIA is Prophet's next leap in AI - an always-available assistant that amplifies human insight.
• By integrating directly into our workflows, it turns AI into true Augmented Intelligence, extending our creativity, judgment, and expertise.
• Built on a multi-agent framework, MAIA connects specialized tools, data sources, and reasoning systems through one interface, so our people can do more, think deeper, and deliver sharper outcomes for clients.</p> <p>As an AI Engineer on the AI Foundry team, you'll be embedded in the group building and evolving MAIA, Prophet's multi-agent AI platform.
• This is a hands-on, technically intensive role.
• You'll own experiments end to end, build and test agents, benchmark model performance, and ship client-facing AI applications on the platform.</p> <p>A defining feature of this role is its position at the intersection of technical and non-technical worlds.
• Most of your day-to-day colleagues at Prophet come from consulting, strategy, and design backgrounds and have learned AI on the job; your deeper technical counterparts - engineers and platform developers - sit with our external technology partners.
• You'll operate with real autonomy, bridge those two audiences fluently, and often be the most technical person in the room.</p> <h3 style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-contrast="none">Your Day to Day</span></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Experimentation & Prototyping</strong> - Design and run experiments to validate new agent capabilities, including building agents, running scaled testing protocols, and benchmarking performance across use cases.
• Own experiments end to end and translate results into clear go/no-go recommendations.</li> <li><strong>Agent Development & Testing</strong> - Draft agent specifications with defined data flows and system prompts.
• Drive prompt engineering, agent configuration, and iterative testing cycles to improve accuracy, reliability, and user experience.</li> <li><strong>Technical Evaluation & Benchmarking</strong> - Assess technical approaches for platform capabilities (e.g., knowledge graph design, API integration patterns, retrieval-augmented generation strategies) and document tradeoffs across cost, speed, accuracy, and maintainability.</li> <li><strong>Platform Development</strong> - Build and ship client-facing applications on MAIA, contributing to front-end and back-end implementation, writing and debugging production-quality code, and owning UX feedback and testing cycles.</li> <li><strong>Performance Tracking & Analysis</strong> - Track product and system metrics (adoption, usage, latency, error rates) and synthesize findings into clear reports for the Foundry team and CoE leadership.</li> <li><strong>AI Landscape Monitoring</strong> - Stay current with developments in LLMs, agent frameworks, and AI tooling, and surface relevant breakthroughs, tools, or techniques that could improve MAIA or the team's workflows.</li> <li> </li> </ul> <h3 style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-contrast="none">What You Bring<br></span></h3> <ul style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"> <li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Engineering, or an equivalent technical background.</li> <li>~2-3 years of experience building AI/ML applications, data pipelines, or software systems.</li> <li>Strong Python and SQL, with fluent Git-based workflows and comfort in tools like VS Code, Vercel, and Supabase.</li> <li>Hands-on experience building LLM applications - RAG (chunking, embeddings, retrieval tuning) and agent frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, or LlamaIndex - plus solid prompt engineering.</li> <li>Practical ML experience with PyTorch, scikit-learn, or similar, and comfort with Pandas/NumPy for data work.</li> <li>Ability to ship a full-stack app end to end (e.g., Flask/FastAPI + React, deployed on Vercel/Supabase) and to design and consume REST APIs.</li> <li>A habit of evaluating and benchmarking your own work - measuring accuracy, cost, and latency, not just getting it running.</li> <li>Exposure to containerization and cloud (Docker, AWS/GCP/Azure) is a plus.</li> <li>Strong analytical thinking and a structured approach to breaking down ambiguous, scoped problems.</li> <li>Strong communication skills, especially translating technical concepts for consulting, strategy, and design colleagues</li> </ul> <h3 style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4;">Prophet has a hybrid working model that requires employees to be in the office 3+ days per week.<br><br></h3><div class="content-conclusion"><p>Prophet is an equal opportunity employer.
• We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of ba

Requirements

• Drive prompt engineering, agent configuration, and iterative testing cycles to improve accuracy, reliability, and user experience.</li> <li><strong>Technical Evaluation & Benchmarking</strong> - Assess technical approach