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Senior Applied AI Engineer

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  • 6+ years

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$190,000 - 265,000/ year

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Description

Why the company?

We're on a mission to empower builders.

Each new hire has a huge impact on shaping the company's trajectory.

Culture of slope over y-intercept : We value learning velocity, grit, and unapologetically unique personalities.

We grew in value faster than headcount and we’re looking to align the two quickly.

We’re looking for product-minded engineers to build the AI experiences behind the company. You’ll combine strong full-stack engineering with applied AI expertise to create agents that reliably solve real customer problems.

As a Senior Applied AI Engineer, you’ll take ownership of complex AI products from early experimentation through production. You’ll help define technical direction, establish how we evaluate and improve agent performance, and raise the quality of both our AI products and engineering practices.

What you'll work on here

Leading AI products end to end: Architecting and shipping customer-facing AI experiences, from agent orchestration and tool use to the interfaces and backend systems that support them

Building reliable agent systems: Developing agent loops that reason over complex context, call tools, recover from failures, and complete long-running tasks

Driving evaluation and iteration: Defining evals, build feedback loops, analyze failures, and systematically hill-climb on prompts, context, models, tools, and product flows

Turning prototypes into products: Making thoughtful decisions about architecture, latency, cost, observability, and user experience to operate AI systems reliably at scale

Shaping product direction and engineering approaches across the stack

What you bring to the table

You have at least 4 years of professional software development experience

You possess deep experience building production systems with language models, including agent loops, tool use, retrieval, prompting, and structured outputs

You are comfortable owning production software across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure

You have led complex projects from experimentation through production and thrive when defining solutions rather than following a spec

You have strong product intuition and care about the “why” as much as the “how” when building user-facing software

You’re eager to talk directly with customers and use those insights to shape what we build

You have experience mentoring other engineers, sharing technical knowledge, and helping teammates grow

Why you should join our engineering team

You’ll solve technically ambitious product problems alongside a team that values craft, speed, and thoughtful execution. Here’s a taste of what the team has built:

How we built a virtual filesystem for our Assistant

Introducing the collaborative editor built for teams and agents

Docs URL Benchmark: Markdown & llms.txt > HTML

Engineers here are product builders with high agency; you'll drive change and have a voice in strategic decisions

You’ll have plenty of heads-down builder time on a small-but-mighty team where the best ideas win

We’ll find the intersection between what excites you and business priorities. You’ll own projects, ship, and see immediate impact

Company Benefits:

Competitive compensation and equity

20 days paid time off every year

401k

$420/month wellness stipend

100% coverage for Health, dental, vision

Free Ubers to and from work

Free lunch and dinners

Annual team offsite (previously went to Alaska, Hawaii)

Where you’d work

From the office

The office

About the company

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  • Industry: SaaS

Office in San Francisco, United States

Your chances

Still hiring, not crowded yet, and a person reads your message.

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  • 2 red flags

Still hiring?

13 checks

Actively hiring

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  • Still on the company's own careers site, checked 5 h agoModerate evidence
  • The company opened 3 roles and closed 8 in the last 2 weeks: hiring is movingModerate evidence
  • On the company's careers site and 1 other place we trackSlight evidence
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  • Specific about the basics: pay, place, level, stack and contract all statedSlight evidence
  • States its salarySlight evidence
  • A hiring contact is attached to itSlight evidence

Against it1

  • Posted 3 weeks agoSlight evidence

How crowded?

6 checks

Low

In its favour3

  • You can message the hiring contact and skip the queueModerate evidence
  • In the office in San Francisco: only people nearby can take itSlight evidence
  • Senior level: far fewer people qualifySlight evidence

Against it1

  • Open for 3 weeks: applications have had time to pile upModerate evidence

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Details13 facts · Role, Location, Compensation, Employment, Company
Tech stack
  • LLMs
Seniority
Senior
Type
Full-time
Equity
Equity offered
Industry
SaaS
Specialty
ML
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Data & Analytics
Specialty
ML
Seniority
Senior
Experience
4+ years
Tech stack
  • LLMs

Location

Work model
Office
Region
United States
Office
  • San Francisco, United States

Compensation

Salary
$190,000 - 265,000 / year
Pay period
Annual
Equity
Equity offered

Employment

Type
Full-time

Company

Industry
SaaS

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