Senior AI Engineer

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San Francisco / $210027 - $262533.75 annum

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SALARY:

$210027 - $262533.75

Location

LOCATION

San Francisco

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Senior AI Engineer - Bay Area - $200k-$250k base + RSUs · Hybrid (Tues-Thurs onsite)

I'm partnering with a fast-growing Series C SaaS company on what is genuinely one of the more exciting AI engineering roles I've worked on this year. They've hit significant scale, built a strong market position, and are now entering a new chapter - with AI at the centre of everything they're building next.

This is a production-first role. You won't be running experiments or building proofs of concept - you'll be designing and shipping agentic AI systems that automate complex, high-stakes enterprise workflows, replacing weeks of manual effort with intelligent, reliable automation at scale. The impact is immediate and highly visible.

You'll be joining a collaborative AI team of around 14, with strong alignment to the product and engineering leadership. The culture values curiosity, ownership, and people who challenge ideas - this is a place where strong engineers have real influence over what gets built and how.

What you'll be doing:

  • Design and build LLM-powered agentic systems with multi-step reasoning, evidence grounding, and decision support
  • Develop RAG pipelines, vector search, and document parsing and classification systems
  • Build and own distributed AI pipelines and long-running agentic workflows using Temporal
  • Architect production-grade LLM and retrieval systems, optimising for latency, cost, and reliability
  • Embed guardrails, human-in-the-loop workflows, and evaluation pipelines to ensure trustworthy AI outputs
  • Partner closely with product and engineering to bring cutting-edge AI from concept to production
  • Help set the technical bar for how the team builds with modern LLMs - your decisions shape what ships

What they're looking for:

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years working directly in AI/ML engineering
  • Proven track record shipping production LLM applications - RAG pipelines, agent frameworks, and evaluation systems
  • Strong Python; TypeScript is a bonus
  • Hands-on experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Chroma, FAISS) and embedding systems
  • Comfortable reasoning about distributed systems and decomposing complex problems into agentic workflows
  • Startup background is important - they want builders who take full ownership, not order-takers
  • Curious, collaborative, and energised by ambiguity rather than unsettled by it

Stack includes AWS Bedrock, Python, Temporal, Snowflake, and vector DB/RAG systems. US citizens and GC holders preferred; exceptional H1B candidates will be considered.

If you've spent your career building real AI systems - not demos - and you're looking for a role where your work genuinely moves the needle for thousands of enterprise customers, this is worth a conversation.

Senior AI Engineer - Bay Area - $200k-$250k base + RSUs · Hybrid (Tues-Thurs onsite)

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Daniel Stockwell

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