Senior AI Engineer

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><h2 data-pm-slice="1 1 []">About Crunchyroll</h2> <p>Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it’s powered by the anime content we all love.</p> <p>Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!</p></div><p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Enterprise Technology is building the core AI-native engineering capabilities needed to improve how we design, build, test, and ship software. This role will help apply AI-assisted engineering across Enterprise Technology projects while maintaining strong quality, security, and production-readiness standards.</p> <p>You will build production software, direct AI coding agents, review AI-generated work, improve delivery practices, and help turn what works into reusable patterns for future Enterprise Technology initiatives.</p> <p>In the role of Staff AI Engineer, you will report to the VP, Enterprise Technology.&nbsp;We are considering applicants for the location of Dallas, Texas (on-site Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays).</p> <h2><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Build and ship production software for Enterprise Technology initiatives, including services, APIs, data models, user interfaces, integrations, tests, and operational tooling.</li> <li>Direct AI coding agents by writing clear specs, acceptance criteria, implementation plans, and verification steps.</li> <li>Review and own AI-generated code, tests, pull requests, and migrations for correctness, security, maintainability, and production readiness.</li> <li>Help establish repeatable AI-assisted engineering practices for Enterprise Technology projects.</li> <li>Design and implement integration-heavy, data-intensive, and workflow-driven systems for enterprise applications and operational platforms.</li> <li>Apply and extend AI-assisted engineering tooling, including coding-agent workflows, repo access patterns, context setup, automated verification, and reusable delivery templates.</li> <li>Track practical delivery metrics such as cycle time, quality, rework, test coverage, cost, adoption, and operational health.</li> <li>Partner with Product, Security, business stakeholders, and Enterprise Technology teams to deliver secure, maintainable software.</li> <li>Improve testing, review, observability, documentation, and operational practices for AI-assisted delivery.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>About You:</strong></h2> <p data-pm-slice="1 3 []">We get excited about candidates, like you, because...</p> <ul> <li>You have 8+ years of experience building and shipping production software as a hands-on engineer, senior IC, technical lead, or Staff-level contributor.</li> <li>You have strong production experience with Python and/or TypeScript across backend, frontend, data, API, or cloud-native systems.</li> <li>You have hands-on experience using AI coding agents or tools such as Claude Code, Google Antigravity, Codex, Cursor, or similar systems.</li> <li>You have strong engineering judgment for reviewing AI-generated code and knowing where human oversight is required.</li> <li>You have experience building or integrating services, APIs, relational data stores, event-driven systems, and user-facing workflows.</li> <li>You're familiar with cloud-native development, preferably GCP, including CI/CD, monitoring, security scanning, and cost-aware engineering.</li> <li>You understand secure engineering practices, role-based access, SSO, audit logging, and controls for enterprise systems.</li> <li>You're able to influence technical decisions, mentor engineers, and raise quality across a significant system or project area.</li> <li>You are able to communicate with both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>A plus if you have:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Experience with enterprise systems, business applications, workflow platforms, data platforms, or internal tools.</li> <li>Experience with media, streaming, content platforms, or complex business domains.</li> <li>Experience building developer-facing tools, templates, or internal platforms that help engineers ship software faster and more safely.</li> <li>Experience with LLM or agent observability tools such as Datadog, LangSmith, Langfuse, or similar systems.</li> <li>Experience with data migration, compliance-sensitive systems, SOX controls, audit-heavy environments, or complex enterprise integrations.</li> </ul> <h2>Why you will love working at Crunchyroll</h2> <p>In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:</p> <ul> <li>Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.</li> <li>Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self.</li> <li>Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance</li> <li>Health Saving Account HSA program</li> <li>Health care and dependent care FSA</li> <li>401(k) plan, with employer match</li> <li>Employer paid commuter benefit</li> <li>Support program for new parents</li> <li>Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!</li> </ul> <p>#LifeAtCrunchyroll #LI-Hybrid&nbsp;</p><div class="content-conclusion"><h3 data-pm-slice="1 1 []">About our Values</h3> <p>We want to be everything for someone rather than something for everyone and we do this by living and modeling our values in all that we do. We value</p> <ul> <li> <p>Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.</p> </li> <li> <p>Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.</p> </li> <li>Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to con