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About the Role

As a founding member of Via's AI Labs, you will operate like a startup within the company to build AI-powered products that could fundamentally change how Via and its partner cities operate. This role offers autonomy, direct access to leadership, and the backing of a company at scale, without the usual constraints. You will build and ship production-grade AI products end-to-end, from problem framing and data pipeline design to deployment and iteration.

Responsibilities

Build and ship production-grade AI products end-to-end, owning everything from problem framing and data pipeline design through to deployment and iteration in live environments.
Work closely with partners in a forward-deployed manner to deeply understand problems and constraints and iterate quickly on scalable agentic solutions.
Lead technical scoping workshops, directly interfacing with city leaders to solve challenging local problems with agentic workflows.
Work across a fast-moving and varied roadmap, contributing to intelligent tooling involving data consolidation, predictive modelling, real-time decision-making, and LLM-powered experiences.
Collaborate directly with product, data science, and operations teams to identify and prioritize the highest-impact AI opportunities across the business.
Write clean, scalable backend code that powers AI-driven features, designing APIs, managing data flows, and ensuring systems perform reliably at scale.
Help shape the technical culture of AI Labs from the ground up, contributing to how the team builds, reviews, ships, and iterates.
Stay close to the frontier of AI development and proactively bring new ideas, tools, and approaches into the team.

Requirements

10+ years of hands-on experience building full stack applications with a track record of owning features end-to-end.
3+ years of working with AI tools and/or building AI powered products.
Deep expertise across the AI stack, including LLMs, predictive modelling, and supporting data infrastructure.
Comfortable designing scalable APIs, working with distributed systems, and writing clean, maintainable code.
Energized by ambiguity and early-stage environments, taking ownership without being asked.
Strong communication skills for cross-functional work and intellectual curiosity to push AI boundaries.
Thrive when working directly with users and customers.
Comfortable with travel to collaborate on-site.

Skills

AI
LLMs
Predictive Modelling
Data Infrastructure
Full Stack Development
API Design
Distributed Systems
Backend Development

Location

Work Type

On-site collaboration
Travel

Experience Level

Staff Engineer
10+ years of experience
3+ years of AI experience

Salary/Compensations

$200,000 - $275,000

Benefits

Free medical plans
401K matching
Catered lunch on Wednesdays
Other perks

About the Company

Via is on a mission to create public transportation systems that provide greater access to jobs, healthcare, and education.
Our platform serves as the technology backbone for modern transit networks, transforming antiquated and siloed public transportation systems into smart, data-driven, and efficient digital networks.
With hundreds of agency partners around the world, Via is recognized as the leading transportation technology and service provider globally.
AI Labs is an incubator-style team operating like a startup within the company to expand Via's reach and provide cutting-edge technical solutions to cities in areas beyond transit.

Equal Opportunity

Via is an equal opportunity employer.