Staff Software Engineer, Product (AI Agent Platform)
Venture-backed conversational-AI platform company in the Bay Area; in-office culture
| Employer | Venture-backed conversational-AI platform company in the Bay Area; in-office culture (not named) |
|---|---|
| Location | San Francisco, CA (Bay Area) · On-site |
| Type & level | Full-time · Staff |
| Pay | USD 200k–400k + equity Source: pay range stated in the source posting |
| Visa path | O-1A fit (senior candidates) |
| Role family | Founding Engineer / Startup CTO |
About the role
The product engineering team builds the platform that customers use to configure, train, test and monitor their own AI agents. The role exists to turn work that now needs an engineer into self-serve product that customer-experience teams can run themselves. Engineers own features from architecture through deployment and follow-up iteration.
What you'll do
- Build self-serve tools for configuring, training and deploying AI agents so manual engineering work goes away
- Design configuration abstractions that handle varied enterprise needs while staying usable by non-technical teams
- Create AI-assisted tooling that lets support and operations staff build complex agent workflows without code
- Build monitoring, tracing and analytics that show customers where and why an agent fails
- Run evaluations of new text and voice models and move the best ones into production traffic
- Work with product and design on discovery, requirements and design review through launch
Requirements
- 7+ years building software products with strong product judgment
- Proficiency in Python and comfort working across the full stack
- Experience turning complex technical capabilities into simple interfaces
- Understanding of asynchronous programming and failure modes that appear at scale
- Strong skill at debugging failures in deep technology stacks
- Ability to turn customer requests into well-scoped product and technical specs
Nice to have
- Background with LLMs, prompt engineering, evals or AI agent systems
- Experience building developer tools, APIs or platforms that became customer-facing
- Experience with observability, data visualization or analytics products
- Experience with security-sensitive systems such as authentication and data access controls
- Work with multi-modal or voice models
Pay & benefits
USD 200k–400k + equity. The posting lists medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement plan, parental and family-building benefits, a wellness stipend, office meals and flexible vacation, plus equity.
Pay source: pay range stated in the source posting. Market data, not an offer from O1DMatch.
Visa path
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