Staff AI Engineer (NY)

Role summary

Staff AI Engineer (NY) is a role at LinkedIn in New York, New York, United States (hybrid). Posted 2026-08-06. Experience level: 5-10.

Job title

Staff AI Engineer (NY)

Company

LinkedIn

Location

New York, New York, United States

Work arrangement

hybrid

Category

AI & Machine Learning

Experience level

5-10

Date posted

2026-08-06

Job description

Company Description

LinkedIn is the worlds largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. Were also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture thats built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun where everyone can succeed.

Job Description

This role will be based in New York City. At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

Responsibilities:

AI is at the core of how LinkedIn connects more than a billion members to opportunity across jobs, sales, marketing, content, and trust platforms. As a Staff AI Software Engineer you will own end-to-end machine learning systems that run in production at LinkedIn scale. You won't just train models, you will own the recommender and classification system that power LinkedIn’s core products. Your responsibilities cover the full product lifecycle from translating product requirements into system design, training the models to power the system, driving the experiments that prove efficacy, and managing the GPU fleets that run them at scale in milliseconds – you are the engine that drives value for our members.

This is a lead individual-contributor role; we expect you to own all aspects of a significant workstream, align technical direction across orgs, and lead the day to day work of engineers on your own team. As owner you have the freedom to set technical directions and are held accountable for delivering measurable member and business impact with a sense of urgency.

What success looks like in your first year

You lead a significant AI workstream end to end and ship at least one model-based system to a measured impact on member or business value and effectively communicate the impact to external partners.

You become the go-to cross-team point of contact for your domain and onboard or mentor at least one other engineer onto the stack.

You drive a meaningful efficiency or quality improvement (i.e. inference/training efficiency, engineer velocity, or tech-debt removal) involving multiple members of the team backed by data.

You operate systems reliably as on-call and root-cause at least one significant production regression.

Why LinkedIn

You'll work on AI systems with immediate, measurable impact on more than a billion members, alongside engineers who set the industry bar for recommendation systems at scale powered by the latest open source generative models and GPU inference. We encourage staying up to date on industry state-of-the-art and sharing your work with the community through conference, journal, and blog publications. We invest in your growth with real mentorship, we trust you with real ownership, and we measure what matters: impact, not output according to our core engineering principles.

Impact: quantify the value you created for members, the business and your team

Leadership : communicate and lead through influence, not authority

Execution: deliver impact with a sense of urgency

Craft: innovate and create leverage with high-quality solutions

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience

4+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.

4+ years experience in programming languages such as Java, Python, etc.

4+ years experience with machine learning, data mining, and information retrieval or natural language processing

Preferred Qualifications

6+ years of relevant AI/Machine Learning experience

MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline

Experience leading a significant project of 3+ AI engineers

Experience with cross-functional communication to product, engineering, business or data science partners.

Experience with PyTorch or similar Deep Learning frameworks

Experience with Spark for data manipulation and transformation

Experience with A/B testing at scale in a consumer-facing product

Experience with AI code development (i.e ClaudeCode, Codex, Copilot)

Experience adapting pre-trained LLMs to production systems including fine-tuning and student-teacher model paradigms

Experience applying AI/ML to recommender systems at scale

Published work in academic conferences or industry circles.

Suggested Skills

Experience leading engineers to tackle a large-scale AI problem

Strong technical background & Strategic thinking

Experience in Machine Learning, Big Data and Deep Learning

Experience in GAI and/or LLMs

You will Benefit from our Culture

We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels. LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $175,000-$287,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

Additional Information

Equal Opportunity Statement

We seek candidates with a wide range of perspect