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.

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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.

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At JetBrains, code is our passion. Ever since we started, back in 2000, we’ve been striving 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.

Today, AI-powered assistance and agents are becoming a core part of how developers work in our IDEs. The ML Workflows Engineering team is dedicated to removing infrastructure challenges, streamlining machine learning operations (MLOps), and enabling teams to focus on the innovative work that matters most – building impactful ML models and intelligent agents. As part of the team, you'll play a key role in designing tools, automation, and pipelines that make machine learning development seamless and intuitive.

By integrating cutting-edge MLOps practices and engineering excellence, we aim to maximize productivity and remove the complexity of ML infrastructure so that our teams can push the boundaries of what’s possible in AI.

As part of our team, you will:

• Build tools, automation, and workflows to simplify infrastructure-heavy tasks, empowering AI teams to focus on experimentation and solving core challenges.
• Develop robust monitoring, logging, and tracing systems to ensure the performance and reproducibility of ML workflows in production.
• Design, implement, and maintain end-to-end machine learning pipelines to enable the seamless development, training, and deployment of ML models and intelligent agents.
• Work with large-scale distributed systems, including GPU clusters, to support training, fine-tuning, and evaluation of ML models.
• Collaborate with product and development teams to transform high-level goals into concrete, scalable, and maintainable systems.
• Optimize workflows for reproducibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency while keeping ML teams productive and focused on innovation.

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

• Hands-on experience with modern MLOps tooling, including Kubernetes, Cloud providers (GCP and AWS), and ML orchestration frameworks.
• A solid understanding of the ML lifecycle from idea to the customer-facing application.
• The ability to own projects end to end, starting from a high-level problem or product pain point and overseeing it through the design, experimentation, implementation, and iteration phases.
• A customer-centric mindset – you care about how ML engineers are actually working and can translate their needs into actionable, scalable, and maintainable architectural decisions.
• Experience with modern CI/CD systems, like GitHub Actions or JetBrains TeamCity.
• At least three years of Python experience writing clean, maintainable code in modern ML codebases.

Our ideal candidate would have experience with:

• ML orchestrators and workflow tools such as ZenML, Dagster, and Airflow.
• Developing infrastructure components and services using cluster solutions like Kubernetes.
• The development of Python-based backend services.
• Creating and maintaining ML pipelines, including legacy ones.
• Experiment tracking and observability using tools like Weights & Biases, MLflow, Langfuse, or similar.

We’d be especially thrilled if you have experience with: 

• LLM inference frameworks such as vLLM, DeepSpeed, and TensorRT.
• Writing and maintaining Python libraries used by internal (or external) ML engineers.
• A strong theoretical background in NLP and transformer-based approaches.
• Writing code in Java and/or Kotlin.

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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 working on an ambitious new platform that provides AI capabilities to all JetBrains products. Our platform is based on models developed in-house for writing and coding assistance, as well as integration with our strategic partners.

We are looking for a Research Engineer who can contribute to training foundation models for coding tasks. You’ll be working on developing Large Language Models from scratch and deploying them into production environments where they will be accessible by end users across the globe.

We value engineers who: 

• Can plan projects and make decisions independently, consulting with others if needed.
• Identify customer needs and prioritize their tasks accordingly.
• Start with the simplest solutions and gradually add complexity as needed.
• Take sole responsibility for an entire subsystem.
• Have a passion for learning and a desire to stay up to date with the latest developments in the LLM field.

In this role, you will: 

• Work with stakeholders to convert business requirements into technical specifications.
• Train LLMs from scratch on a large GPU cluster.
• Collect and process pre-training and fine-tuning datasets.
• Support and improve existing subsystems.

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

• Experience in design, deployment, and support of production ML systems.
• A strong theoretical background in NLP and transformer-based approaches.
• Proficiency with modern deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and common libraries for NLP.
• Experience in distributed training of multi-billion parameter models.
• Attention to detail in everything you do and great communication skills.

We’d be especially thrilled if you have experience with: 

• LLM inference frameworks such as vLLM, DeepSpeed, TensorRT.
• LLM alignment techniques such as RLHF/RLAIF.
• MLOps tools and practices, including CI/CD for ML.
• K8s and Kubeflow.
• Scientific publications in the NLP field.

How we develop JetBrains AI: 

• A cluster of hundreds of NVIDIA GPUs as training infrastructure.
• Git for source control management.
• Python, PyTorch, and HuggingFace as an ML stack.
• Kubeflow and Weights & Biases for experiment tracking.
• TeamCity as a CI Automation system.

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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.

JetBrains is evolving beyond standalone developer tools toward a unified, AI-native platform for software development.

AI is no longer just an assistant inside the editor – it is becoming an active participant in how software is planned, built, reviewed, and operated across teams and organizations. This shift introduces new challenges that cannot be solved at the level of individual tools alone: governance, security, cost control, observability, and coordinated work between humans and autonomous agents.

Our goal is to build a platform that enables companies to adopt AI in software development in a structured, scalable, and economically efficient manner without locking them into closed ecosystems. This platform will serve as the execution and governance layer for AI-driven development, deeply integrated with developer tools but designed to work across teams, products, and environments.

We are looking for an experienced ML leader who has created products with an ML backbone, weaving together research, technical excellence, and strong product focus.

We are seeking a professional who excels in three key areas: technology, product vision, and business operations. This role involves extensive cooperation with products across the company – both AI-native and just integrating AI.

In this role, you will: 

• Identify, prioritize, and champion high-impact AI projects that align with JetBrains' product strategy and deliver measurable business value.
• Lead a team of about 50 people across multiple AI initiatives, including hiring and developing team leads, ML engineers, and MLOps specialists.
• Set the technical direction for JetBrains’ ML roadmap,  translating cutting-edge AI advancements into practical product innovations.
• Ensure projects deliver on commitments and create measurable value.
• Set technical standards, architectural direction, and best practices for ML development.

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

• The ability to balance long-term R&D with short-term product needs.
• A track record of shipping production ML systems that users actually use.
• Experience building business cases for technical projects.
• A deep understanding of modern ML infrastructure, LLMs, and AI tooling.
• Outstanding stakeholder management skills and are comfortable working with senior leaders.
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, effectively managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent management and communication skills.
• Attention to detail in everything you do.

We’d be especially thrilled if you have experience with: 

• Distributed training of multi-billion parameter models.
• CI systems, workflow automation, and experiment tracking.
• The Kotlin programming language.

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