Looking for a Senior or Staff AI Engineer role at a company where RAG pipelines, LLM orchestration, and vector search are core engineering problems. I thrive in high-scale environments, own end-to-end systems, and want to work alongside teams building AI infrastructure that ships to millions of users.
Open to opportunities
Jonathan Bai
@jonathanbai
Senior AI Engineer with 10+ years shipping production LLM applications, RAG pipelines, and vector search infrastructure at Airbnb and Apple. Full-stac
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I'm a Senior AI Engineer with 10+ years at Airbnb and Apple, building production RAG pipelines, multi-agent LLM systems, and vector search infrastructure at scale. I own the full stack — Python/FastAPI backends through React/Next.js frontends — and I'm looking for Senior or Staff AI Engineer roles.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Current
Part of Airbnb's search and AI platform team, owning end-to-end development of RAG pipelines, LLM-powered features, React/Next.js AI tooling, and vector retrieval infrastructure across marketplace search, personalization, and internal developer platforms.
Backend engineer on Apple's App Store platform team, focused on search and discovery infrastructure serving hundreds of millions of global users. Built backend services, indexing pipelines, and internal full-stack tooling powering App Store search ranking, editorial curation, and content ingestion at scale.
Interned on PayPal's developer platform team building internal tooling and gaining early exposure to distributed backend systems, financial transaction flows, and high-reliability service patterns.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science
2012 - 2016
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Open to opportunities
Location
United StatesAuthorized to work in
Salary expectations
120k-150k USD
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