Senior AI Engineer

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San Francisco / $400000 - $550000 annum

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Salary
SALARY:

$400000 - $550000

Location

LOCATION

San Francisco

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Senior AI Software Engineer

Company Overview

Join a tech-focused private equity firm that has raised over $50 billion in capital and invests exclusively in technology companies. The team operates like a high-performance startup, combining institutional scale with a lean, high-caliber environment where every role has direct impact on investment decisions.

The Role

We're hiring a Senior AI Software Engineer to own the end-to-end technical architecture of our AI investment platform. This is a high-ownership, high-visibility role where you'll design and ship production AI products from the ground up, including agentic workflows, RAG systems, and LLM-based tooling that directly support deal diligence, portfolio monitoring, knowledge management, and decision support.

What You'll Do

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    Architect and build the firm's AI platform from the ground up, owning decisions across the full stack

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    Design and implement RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and LLM-based tooling for investment use cases

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    Build and maintain embedding pipelines, vector databases, and evaluation harnesses

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    Partner with investment team stakeholders to translate complex workflows into scalable AI products

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    Establish engineering best practices including CI/CD, testing, and model evaluation frameworks

What We're Looking For

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    5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years building production AI/ML systems (LLM applications, RAG, agentic frameworks, or equivalent)

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    Strong fundamentals in Python, cloud infrastructure on AWS, and modern CI/CD practices

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    Deep knowledge of LLM application patterns: prompt engineering, embedding pipelines, vector databases, evaluation harnesses, and tool-use architectures

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    Experience shipping end-to-end AI products in a fast-moving environment

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    Startup experience or comfort operating with high autonomy and low process overhead

Logistics

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    4 days onsite in SF or NYC

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    $550k+ total annual compensation

CONTACT

Gabriella Varela

Senior Sourcing Consultant

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