Hybrid Senior Staff AI Engineer

at LiveRamp

• Job title: Senior Staff AI Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $177,000 - $256,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Postgraduate Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Python, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Senior Staff AI Engineer leading end-to-end AI agent development at LiveRamp. Collaborating across teams to implement data-driven solutions with a strong focus on agentic AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end development of advanced LLM-based agents, including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, building specialized tools/functions for agents, and designing sophisticated planning and memory mechanisms.
• Establish and implement rigorous evaluation methodologies (e.g., using LLM-as-a-judge, adversarial testing) to measure agent performance, reliability, safety, bias, drift, and effectiveness.
• Define the long-term data science strategy for agentic AI systems across LiveRamp’s products, including model selection, and data pipelines to support complex, multi-step autonomous and/or human-in-the-loop behavior.
• Act as a thought leader and mentor to a team of Data Scientists, ML Engineers and Software Engineers, driving best practices in data infrastructure, experimental design, and scalable deployment (MLOps).
• Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Data Science teams to translate ambitious agent-based product requirements into actionable, high-impact data science solutions.
• Own and implement data science models in use within LiveRamp’s products, from Identity machine learning solutions to agentic AI solutions.

Requirements

• MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 10+ years designing and building data-intensive products and writing production-quality code.
• 2+ years building AI agents in a production setting.
• Demonstrated expertise in agentic AI concepts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for both technical and non-technical audiences; strong influence skills across teams.
• Proficiency with Python and SQL and relevant ML libraries.
• Experience with Cloud Platforms such as GCP.
• A product-focused mindset and a strong bias for an iterative execution - you move quickly from idea to prototype to production.
• Experience mentoring a team of data scientists and engineers.

Benefits

• Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
• We host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues.
• Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.
• LiveRamp offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives.
• Our benefits package offers medical, dental, vision, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth and more.
• Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan - 15% discount off purchase price of LiveRamp stock (U.S. LiveRampers).
• A comprehensive office equipment and ergonomics program—we provide you with equipment and tools to be your most productive self, no matter where you're located.