AI Engineer

Mintlify empowers developers and businesses worldwide.

We're a company forged in building. Our founders aimed to create a platform that accelerates the ability to solve problems. With X, Anthropic, Cursor, Scale AI as customers, we’re proven problem solvers.

We raised our Series A in Summer of 2024 - we're reaching 30m+ developers every year and power the documentation of 6000+ companies. And we’re proud of our history, being one of the most popular products used by YC companies.

We grew in value faster than headcount and we’re looking to align the two in the coming year.

Who is an employee at Mintlify?:

People that are excited to grow as humans alongside us as a company.

We always hire for slope . High learning velocity and grit win 99% of the time.

People who think beyond their work scope.

“Where else can I be impactful?” “Oh, I know how to do that! How can I help?”

Not uncommon to hear in our office.

People who appreciate diversity. Our company collectively speaks 12 languages. We’re full of introverted extroverts.

Characters are welcome here - be unapologetically you!

Who is an engineer at Mintlify?

Engineers at Mintlify appreciate a high degree of ownership, are passionate about a tasteful user experience and come to work ready to contribute to a small-but-mighty team.

Small Team. Big Dreams.

You’ll have daily stand ups and plenty of heads down builder time. We believe in the power of strong teams to drive change - and have created an environment where the best ideas win and we can acknowledge when we’re wrong.

Joining the team

We’ll learn where your strengths lie and put you in position. You’ll jump into new territory and learn something new. You’ll own projects and features. You’ll ship.

Move Fast. Big Swings.

About the Role

This founding role will work closely with the CEO and CTO to develop the core product offering. The nature of this work will change in a fast-moving environment but typically involves a combination of two functions:

Working with AI/LLMs: Improving the performance of our Retrieval Augmented Generation platform by experimenting with foundational LLMs and novel cognitive architectures and retrieval techniques. Help define industry standards for how to leverage generative AI in enterprise settings.

Working on our data platform: Making improvements to our data platform to ingest, transform, and embed customer data for use in generative AI applications. Optimizing the data infrastructure’s performance and scalability to ensure reliable and timely data integration.

Company Benefits

Competitive compensation and equity | Flexible work culture

20 days paid time off every year | Health, dental, vision

401k or RRSP | Free lunch and dinners

$420/mo. wellness stipend | Annual team offsite

Our interview process

• Culture interview (30-min video call)

  • We’re looking to learn about you, your skills and experience and your motivation to join our team.

• Technical interview (take-home, 1 week to complete, 2-3 hours total depending on test)

  • No LeetCode! Real-world problem solving in our coding environment. We try and make it fun.

• Debugging interview (1-hour live w/ one of our engineers)

  • 4 bugs. 1 hour. Are you up to the test?

• Founder interview (1 hour)

  • Meet with Han or Hahnbee! AMA at the end.

• On-Site (half-day)

  • Have lunch with us! Play some ping pong! We’ll learn about each other here.

• Offer

  • cue confetti ! Dandelion Chocolate on us come Week 1!