At JetBrains, code is our passion. Ever since we started back in 2000, we have been striving to make the world’s most robust and effective developer tools. By automating routine checks and corrections, our tools speed up production, freeing developers to grow, discover, and create.

We are now building services and agentic tools that provide AI coding agents and end users with deeper context about codebases. Our code retrieval service already delivers meaningful improvements in agent speed and task performance, and we aim to push this further – extracting richer insights than snippets alone at the scale of several hundred thousand repositories. 

We are looking for an AI Engineer who can design and implement agentic tools from scratch, bring them to the end users, and make coding with agents smarter, faster, and more reliable.

In this role, you will:

• Translate product needs into agentic tools and services and ship them to production.
• Scale prototypes to large numbers of users.
• Improve and test our semantic search service.
• Build evaluation pipelines for code retrieval and coding task performance.

We’ll be happy to have you on our team if you have:

• At least five years of hands-on NLP experience.
• Experience in information retrieval systems.
• Strong experience in LLM prompt and tool engineering, as well as with AI agents.
• Solid programming skills in Python and/or Kotlin (and the willingness to learn the language you’re unfamiliar with).
• Experience building and operating production-grade software systems.

We’d be especially thrilled if you have:

• Experience developing in Kotlin or Java.
• Previously worked with code intelligence (e.g. AST, symbol graphs).

#LI-DNI

Software engineers and AI agents alike suffer from the same problem: finding that one person or place that will answer their tough, specific question. Many solutions promise to solve this with similarity search in vector databases. Unfortunately, finding the answer is often a puzzle with pieces to be collected across a myriad of contradictory sources and cannot be solved without surgical search and careful reasoning. 

Spectrum collects data from an organization’s code, docs, and issues, and organizes knowledge in a unified ontology that AI agents can efficiently search through and reason over. We aim to revolutionize the semantic layer space for software-building organizations and move beyond specs that fall out of sync with code, introducing a living spec – one that’s extracted from the whole system and used to keep it aligned. Spectrum is meant to be the single source of truth for all product and architectural knowledge.

Spectrum is a resident of JetBrains' startup incubator, with startup speed and autonomy, and backed by 25 years of developer tooling expertise. We are looking for a top-class ML Engineer who will help us shape the future of software development. You will own our AI and ML engineering stack and help define the research agenda for our team. Your technical vision and design decisions will directly shape the product and determine its success.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing and building the ML/LLM solution for data ingestion, knowledge extraction, retrieval, and subsequent reasoning.
• Creating the datasets, metrics, and pipelines that drive measurable improvements across the system.
• Architecting and improving agents for context retrieval, knowledge extraction, and data alignment, which includes prompt engineering, model selection, and inference optimization.
• Establishing MLOps practices, including orchestration, observability, and experiment tracking.
• Collaborating with the engineering team on system design and with JetBrains Research on the research agenda.
• Defining hiring criteria, growing the ML team, and shaping the ML team culture.

We expect you to have:

• A proven track record as an ML/AI Lead.
• At least five years of experience in ML/AI systems, with at least two years focused on LLMs and generative AI.
• A deep understanding of the LLM ecosystem, including model architectures and fine-tuning approaches.
• Hands-on experience with:
• Prompt engineering and LLM pipeline design, including evaluation.
• Agentic frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangSmith, smolagents, or an equivalent.
• Vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns.
• Deploying and scaling LLM-powered applications using APIs (e.g. OpenAI or Anthropic) or open-source models.
• Strong Python skills – Kotlin knowledge would be a plus.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Proficiency in English, both written and verbal. 

Our ideal candidate would have:

• Experience with ontologies, knowledge graphs, or graph-based reasoning.
• Experience in early-stage startups – you enjoy the zero-to-one phase.
• The ability to think strategically about product-led AI, beyond just training models in isolation.
• A background in code analysis, developer tools, or software engineering research.
• Experience with multi-agent systems or complex agentic workflows.
• Actively contributed to relevant open-source projects or publications.

What we offer

• A competitive salary and JetBrains benefits.
• A generous runway and corporate resources with startup autonomy.

#LI-KP1

Software engineers and AI agents alike suffer from the same problem: finding that one person or place that will answer their tough, specific question. Many solutions promise to solve this with similarity search in vector databases. Unfortunately, finding the answer is often a puzzle with pieces to be collected across a myriad of contradictory sources and cannot be solved without surgical search and careful reasoning.

Spectrum collects data from an organization's code, docs, and issues, and organizes knowledge in a unified ontology that AI agents can efficiently search through and reason over. We aim to revolutionize the semantic layer space for software-building organizations and move beyond specs that fall out of sync with code, introducing a living spec – one that's extracted from the whole system and used to keep it aligned. Spectrum is meant to be the single source of truth for all product and architectural knowledge.

A resident of JetBrains' startup incubator, Spectrum enjoys startup speed and autonomy, and is backed by 25 years of developer tooling expertise. We are looking for a Senior AI/ML Engineer to build and evolve the ML-powered systems at the heart of our product.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing and building the ML/LLM solution for data ingestion, knowledge extraction and retrieval, and subsequent reasoning.
• Creating datasets, metrics, and pipelines that drive measurable improvements across the system.
• Architecting and improving AI agents, which will involve prompt engineering, model selection, and inference optimization.
• Contributing to our MLOps practices, including orchestration, observability, and experiment tracking.

We expect you to have:

• At least four years of experience building ML/AI systems in production environments, with hands-on LLM experience.
• A deep understanding of the LLM ecosystem, including model architectures and fine-tuning approaches.
• Hands-on experience with:
• Prompt engineering and LLM pipeline design, including evaluation.
• Agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, Pydantic AI, or an equivalent.
• Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns and vector databases.
• Deploying and scaling LLM-powered applications using APIs (e.g. OpenAI or Anthropic) or open-source models.
• Strong Python skills – Kotlin knowledge would be a plus.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Proficiency in English, both written and verbal.

Our ideal candidate would also have:

• Experience with ontologies, knowledge graphs, or graph-based reasoning.
• Experience in early-stage startups – you enjoy the zero-to-one phase.
• A background in code analysis, developer tools, or software engineering research.
• Experience with multi-agent systems or complex agentic workflows.
• Actively contributed to relevant open-source projects or publications.

What we offer:

• A competitive salary and JetBrains benefits.
• A generous runway and corporate resources with startup autonomy.
• A motivated team that moves fast, with short feedback loops, rapid prototyping, and lots of ownership.
• Opportunities to publish research at top venues in collaboration with JetBrains Research.

#LI-DNI

At JetBrains, code is our passion. Ever since we started, back in 2000, we have strived to make the strongest, most effective developer tools on earth. By automating routine checks and corrections, our tools speed up production, freeing developers to grow, discover, and create.

AI features in JetBrains IDEs, developed by the IntelliJ AI team, have quickly become a core part of how developers work inside our IDEs. The IntelliJ AI team partners with product groups across JetBrains to embed advanced AI features that accelerate developer workflows and deliver real value to software engineers.

We are currently looking to hire a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to help us realize our ambitious vision of creating AI assistance that supports the entire development lifecycle across JetBrains IDEs. If selected, you will join the ML subteam within IntelliJ AI, driving the development of our ML system from end to end by defining evaluation and metrics, shaping context orchestration, and helping product teams tailor AI capabilities to their needs.

In this role, you will:

• Design and drive evaluation frameworks for AI features, including metrics, experiments, and agent trace analysis.
• Diagnose model performance issues (e.g. prompt drift, context mismatches, and latency/quality trade-offs) and translate findings into actionable improvements.
• Experiment with contexts and lightweight models to continuously develop our ML system.
• Act as the ML liaison for product teams across JetBrains, adapting and scaling AI capabilities in JetBrains IDEs to their needs.
• Build and maintain small helper models (e.g. re-rankers, classifiers, embedding models) to support domain-specific tasks.
• Collaborate with colleagues in ML, product, engineering, and analytic teams to deliver improvements and monitor their impact in production.
• Stay up to date with research in the fields of LLMs, agents, and evaluation, bringing best practices into our workflows.
• Mentor junior engineers and help shape team culture, processes, and tooling around experimentation and evaluation.

We’d be happy to have you on our team if you: 

• Have 5+ years of experience as an ML Engineer, with a solid background in production-grade ML systems (especially LLMs and agent architectures).
• Have experience with LLM evaluation methods and frameworks.
• Can design and run end-to-end experiments – hypotheses, metrics, data collection (including traces/logs), analysis, and decision-making.
• Are skilled in context-aware pipelines or conversational/agent systems.
• Have strong Python programming skills.
• Bring hands-on experience in fine-tuning or training smaller models (e.g. domain-specific fine-tuning and lightweight customizations).
• Communicate clearly and effectively across teams, translating ML/AI insights into product features.
• Have prior mentorship experience with ML/evaluation engineers.
• Thrive in a cross-functional, fast-moving environment, taking ownership, iterating quickly, and delivering results.

We’d be especially thrilled if you have: 

• Familiarity with agent-based systems and orchestrating multi-step reasoning agents.
• Experience with the Kotlin programming language.

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