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Senior LLM Engineer, R&D

The New York Times170 open roles

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$80 – $90 an hour
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New York, NY
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Your applicationOpen nowSenior LLM Engineer, R&DThe New York Times · New York, NY

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13.7% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. The New York Times postings stay open a median of 58 days.

Share of postings closed within
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  2. 4.8%3 days
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  4. 22.1%14 days
  5. 37.6%30 days
  6. 59.1%60 days
This job: posted 3 days ago

The New York Times median: 58 days open

The posting

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for.

About Us:

Research & Development at The New York Times explores how emerging technologies can be applied in service of journalism. We collaborate with designers, developers, reporters, photographers and editors to bring new forms of storytelling to life, from prototyping to publishing.

At The Times, technology permeates every aspect of our business, from our thought-provoking coverage of technological trends to the digital-first transformation of our own business to the changing world of our readers. The Research & Development team explores the new opportunities that emerging technologies may provide the New York Times and our commercial and strategic goals.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a background in applied AI to develop applications using Large Language Models (LLMs) in service of The Times mission and journalistic standards.

You will report to the Executive Director of R&D.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement LLM-backed APIs – driving improvements to reach target outcomes through evaluation, grounding and fine-tuning best practices.
  • Deploy reliable services within cloud environments (such as GCP or AWS) to support high-traffic LLM applications.
  • Manage the transition of features from experimental prototypes to stable production systems in a fast-paced environment with evolving requirements.
  • Collaborate with designers, product managers and stakeholders to translate detailed requirements into technical tasks, providing accurate estimates and progress updates.
  • Maintain comprehensive documentation to facilitate feature handoff and future maintenance.
  • Stay at the forefront of the evolving AI and LLM landscape, identifying and advocating for the use of new technologies and best practices.
  • Demonstrate understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications:

You are comfortable building projects by yourself and enjoy collaboration with a larger team. You are both curious about and skeptical of new technologies. You're excited to apply new tools, but aim to do so in service of solving important problems and making a difference for users. You take pride in your craft and understand the need to capture patterns and support future development.

  • 5+ years of professional software development or equivalent experience.
  • Proficiency with Python and TypeScript/JavaScript.
  • Professional experience architecting and shipping applications that use LLMs. Experience with multi-step chaining and human-in-the-loop workflows.
  • Strong understanding of LLM evaluations. Experience refining products using instrumentation, monitoring, and golden datasets to ensure accuracy and robustness.
  • Experience in algorithmic and AI text processing (e.g. text segmentation, semantic chunking, restructuring).

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience building reliable, scalable back-end services in cloud environments (e.g. GCP, AWS).
  • Familiarity with AI orchestration and evaluation frameworks (e.g. AWS Step Functions, Google Cloud Workflows, Dagster, Braintrust).
  • Experience building front-end user interfaces for LLM-backed products.

To apply, please provide work samples (code snippets, URLs, project summaries) describing your most relevant work for this position and how it expresses your approach to software engineering.

This is a temporary position that is expected to last through November 2027.

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Additional Compensation and Benefits:

For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.

For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process

The hourly rate of base pay for this role is:

$79.67—$90.11 USD

Candidate Use of GenAI Tools:

We’re excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.

If you’re an engineering candidate, we’ll let you know what specific GenAI tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.

The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)’s Know Your Rights Poster is available here.

The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email [email protected]. Emails sent for unrelated issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

For information about The New York Times' privacy practices for job applicants, click here.

Please beware of fraudulent job postings. Scammers may post fraudulent job opportunities, and they may even make fraudulent employment offers. This is done by bad actors to collect personal information and money from victims. All legitimate job opportunities from The New York Times will be accessible through The New York Times careers site. The New York Times will not ask job applicants for financial information or for payment, and will not refer you to a third party to do so. You should never send money to anyone who suggests they can provide employment with The New York Times.

If you see a fake or fraudulent job posting, or if you suspect you have received a fraudulent offer, you can report it to The New York Times at [email protected]. You can also file a report with the Federal Trade Commission or your state attorney general.

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