Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Applied AI

Description

The applied AI team at a Series A/B company that builds workforce technology for industrial staffing is bringing AI agents into its staffing marketplace and building the backend platform behind them.

This is a senior, hands-on role across product engineering, distributed systems and production AI, and you will have a real say in core architecture.

Responsibilities

• Use AI agents and frontier models to automate sourcing, worker vetting, matching and placement.
• Design and lead core backend systems, such as real-time matching and AI-enabled vetting pipelines.
• Build and maintain scalable platform services, APIs, data models and deployment infrastructure.
• Raise system performance, reliability and capacity as the product grows.
• Work with engineering and product peers to make architecture decisions and ship practical tools for operations users.

Requirements

• Usually 5 or more years of software engineering experience for Senior roles, or 7 or more years for Staff roles, including end-to-end product ownership.
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js skills, with experience in APIs, distributed systems, data modeling and PostgreSQL. Kafka or RabbitMQ experience is a plus.
• Experience shipping AI or agentic products to production and using coding agents and AI-assisted development tools.
• Track record building products at a fast-growing startup or early-stage company, with proven results and the ability to work through ambiguity.
• Strong product judgment and experience working across functions on scalable systems, ideally in applied AI, marketplaces, matching, recruiting, logistics or other operationally complex areas.

Conditions

Base salary is $200,000 to $300,000 per year.

Visa sponsorship is available.

This role is on-site in San Francisco, California.