Staff AI EngineerVerified as a real position

Who we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• Minimum of 5 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining software systems
• Excellent backend expertise in at least one strongly typed language, preferably TypeScript
• Solid understanding of cloud computing primitives, especially AWS
• Strong understanding of agentic AI concepts such as tool use, function calling, state machines or graphs, retrieval and reranking, structured outputs, memory, guardrails, and evaluation
• Experience developing and deploying agentic workflows using frameworks such as LangChain, Mastra, or LangGraph
• Prior experience leading an AI systems team
• Experience shipping and operating multiple GenAI or LLM systems in production
• Hands-on experience debugging scaled LLM systems and participating in incident response
• Experience building human-in-the-loop evaluation pipelines
• Experience with RAG, embeddings, and model fine-tuning
• Experience implementing evaluation suites for agentic systems running in production
• A genuine interest in investing, public markets, and fundamental business analysis is expected.

What you’ll do

• Build end-to-end distributed agentic AI solutions that are reliable and scalable
• Lead cross-functional initiatives requiring coordination across multiple teams and shared systems
• Mentor other engineers and define quality standards and best practices
• Own long-term maintainability, observability, and cost efficiency of AI systems
• Monitor model quality drift, prompt alignment, alerting, and operational health
• Design, build, and ship LLM-powered systems that integrate into new and existing workflows across the platform, spanning orchestration, retrieval, tool use, evaluation, and operational safeguards
• Help define the engineering standards and architectural patterns that make these systems reliable, scalable, and maintainable over time

About the position

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass. StockStory, now part of CNBC under VERSANT, is building the next generation of AI-powered equity research for individual investors. This is a chance to build products that can shape how millions of consumers understand markets and make investing decisions. We offer the best parts of a startup environment - small team, high ownership, fast execution, and room to experiment - with the backing and stability of VERSANT, an independent publicly traded media company.

Benefits

• We offer the best parts of a startup environment - small team, high ownership, fast execution, and room to experiment - with the backing and stability of VERSANT, an independent publicly traded media company.