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Senior AI Engineer, MapGPT

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Salary
$175,100 - $236,900
Job type
Full-time
Posted
22 Sept 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

Mapbox is hiring a Senior AI Engineer, MapGPT for the Navigation department based in Mapbox US. This role suits an experienced software professional ready to design, evaluate, and deliver advanced LLM-backed features across multiple technical stacks and product areas.

Role Overview

In this position, the engineer owns the technical design and delivery of multi-component AI systems and is accountable for output quality. The work spans search and places data, location and navigation intelligence, and agent platforms. The candidate moves between teams and technology stacks to tackle high-priority artificial intelligence challenges, establishes measurement and evaluation frameworks for non-deterministic behavior, validates hypotheses, builds data pipelines, tracks external models, and participates in an on-call rotation.

Key Responsibilities

Define product behavior, establish measurement frameworks, and build evaluation systems for non-deterministic behavior.
Run continuous evaluations of APIs, SDKs, data representations, and reference applications from the end-user perspective.
Own minimum viable products against technical designs while balancing perfection with shipping useful increments.
Build data pipelines and tooling for ingestion, conflation, entity resolution, and quality checks.
Evaluate and integrate external datasets, models, and open-source benchmarks.
Design feedback loops and instrument systems so failure modes capture sufficient context.
Define boundaries between models and called tools, improving model harnesses and managing latency and cost targets.
Build internal developer tooling and participate in an on-call rotation requiring occasional after-hours response.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline.
Minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience with production ownership of services, pipelines, or SDKs.
At least 2 years of experience shipping LLM-backed features to real users within systems carrying error budgets and on-call duties.
Data engineering depth including SQL, distributed processing frameworks, and high-stakes data pipelines.
Fluency with tool calling and agent orchestration, recognizing failure modes like stale context or loops.
Strong proficiency in Python or TypeScript.
Experience designing evaluations for non-deterministic systems and working knowledge of multiple agent harnesses.

Nice to Have

Geospatial data expertise in routing, geocoding, POI, or OpenStreetMap.
Public API or SDK design background for remote developers.
Experience building against MCP or similar tool transports.
CI evaluation execution experience.
Automotive, Android Auto, or CarPlay familiarity.
Voice pipeline experience including streaming ASR, TTS, and wake words.
Experience working under constrained compute or offline environments.
Background launching products through initial external customer integrations.

Skills and Tools

Python
TypeScript
SQL
LLM Development
Distributed processing frameworks
Agent orchestration and tool calling

Salary and Benefits

Base compensation ranges from $160,650 to $217,350 for most United States locations, and is 5% to 10% higher for regions with a higher cost of labor. Benefits include hybrid or remote work options, comprehensive private medical healthcare, generous maternity and paternity leave, fertility and family-building support, a lifestyle spending account, mental health support, flexible paid time off, paid volunteering time, and retirement plans with competitive matching.

About the Company

Mapbox is a real-time location platform powering navigation for people, packages, and vehicles globally. Over 4 million registered developers utilize the platform's tools, SDKs, and APIs to build customized location-aware applications emphasizing flexibility, security, and privacy compliance.

How to Apply

To apply for this position, please visit the official Mapbox careers page and submit your application online.

Skills and tech stack

PythonLLMSQLTypeScript

Questions candidates ask

What is the location of the Senior AI Engineer, MapGPT role?

The position is located in Mapbox US, with hybrid or remote work options available.

What is the salary range for this position?

Annual base compensation ranges from $160,650 to $217,350 for most US locations, and is 5% to 10% higher in areas with a higher cost of labor.

What level of experience is required?

Candidates must have 5+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years shipping LLM-backed features to real users.

What programming languages are required?

Strong proficiency in Python or TypeScript is required, alongside SQL skills and data engineering depth.

Does this role require participating in an on-call rotation?

Yes, team members participate in an on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 system availability, which may occasionally require immediate response outside normal working hours.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official Mapbox careers page.

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