Senior AI Engineer

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San Francisco / $200000 - $250000 annum

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Salary
SALARY:

$200000 - $250000

Location

LOCATION

San Francisco

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Senior AI Engineer | Series C GRC Startup | San Francisco (Hybrid)

Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid - 3 days/week in office)

Compensation: $200,000 - $250,000 base salary + significant equity

The Role

This is a high-impact, high-ownership position. The selected candidate will serve as the technical authority on how the team designs, ships, and continuously improves AI in production. From LLM pipelines and RAG architectures to agentic workflows and human-in-the-loop systems, this engineer will work across the full stack of modern AI infrastructure alongside a team that takes engineering craft seriously.

What You'll Do

  • Design, build, and own production AI systems end-to-end, including LLM pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), reranking, vector stores, and orchestration
  • Architect scalable LLM + retrieval + agent systems that operate reliably in enterprise production environments
  • Build and maintain human-in-the-loop (HITL) workflows that keep domain experts meaningfully in the decision process
  • Develop evaluation frameworks and apply quantitative analysis to systematically measure and improve AI system performance
  • Partner with product and engineering leadership to shape the AI roadmap and define best practices across the team
  • Set architectural standards that influence how the broader organization builds and ships AI

Required:

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years working directly on ML/AI systems in production (or 6+ YOE for Senior level)
  • Deep hands-on experience with RAG, embeddings, reranking, and vector databases (Pinecone, FAISS, Chroma, or similar)
  • Proven experience building agentic workflows and multi-step LLM pipelines
  • Strong proficiency in Python and TypeScript
  • Experience designing and implementing AI evaluation frameworks using quantitative methods

Nice to Have:

  • Background in compliance, security, or other regulated enterprise domains (GRC experience is a strong plus)
  • Familiarity with enterprise data platforms or Snowflake-based analytics
  • Experience with orchestration systems like Temporal or Airflow
  • Hands-on experience with LLM evaluation platforms such as Braintrust

Compensation and Benefits

  • $200,000 - $250,000 base salary + significant equity at Series C
  • Employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage for the employee and dependents
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Hybrid flexibility with a collaborative SF home base


CONTACT

Gabriella Varela

Senior Sourcing Consultant

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