Staff AI Software Engineer

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San Francisco, CA / $250000 - $300000 annum

INFO

Salary
SALARY:

$250000 - $300000

Location

LOCATION

San Francisco, CA

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

STAFF AI SOFTWARE ENGINEER - AGENTIC SYSTEMS + AI ARCHITECTURE

$250,000 - $300,000 BASE + EQUITY

HYBRID - SAN FRANCISCO (TUES-THURS)

Are you excited about defining AI system architecture and building production-grade systems that power real-world, high-stakes decisions-not just prototypes?

Do you want to shape how agentic AI and LLM systems are designed at scale, influencing both product and engineering direction?

THE COMPANY

A fast-growing, venture-backed SaaS company in the compliance and security (GRC) space, helping organizations build trust at scale.

  • Rapid growth and expanding into enterprise customers
  • AI is central to the next phase of the company's evolution
  • Building next-gen platform with agentic workflows, LLMs, and automation
  • Strong product-market fit with significant investment in AI infrastructure

THE ROLE

As a Staff AI Software Engineer, you'll define and scale AI system architecture while remaining hands-on in building production systems.

  • Architect and scale LLM-powered systems for reasoning, automation, and decision-making
  • Design agentic workflows with multi-step orchestration, tools, and human-in-the-loop systems
  • Lead development of RAG pipelines (retrieval, embeddings, reranking, evaluation)
  • Establish best practices for LLM orchestration, evaluation, and cost/latency optimization
  • Influence technical direction across teams and partner closely with product leadership
  • Mentor engineers and raise the bar for AI system design and execution

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years building AI/LLM systems in production
  • Deep expertise in system design and distributed systems architecture
  • Strong experience with LLMs, RAG pipelines, and agentic AI workflows
  • Strong Python skills (TypeScript a plus)
  • Proven ability to design, ship, and scale end-to-end AI systems
  • Ability to influence technical decisions and operate in high-ambiguity, fast-moving environments

THE BENEFITS

  • Competitive base + meaningful equity
  • Hybrid in San Francisco
  • Opportunity to define next-gen AI architecture (agentic systems, RAG, LLMs)
  • High-impact, high-visibility role with ownership over core product systems
  • Work at the intersection of AI innovation and real-world enterprise impact

CONTACT

Chris Williams
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Senior Sourcing Consultant

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