Profound

Member of Technical Staff, Internal Tooling

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3 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$140k - $260k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build internal applications, integrations, and automations using TypeScript and Python.
  • Partner with internal technical and non-technical teams to understand workflows and build tools that reduce manual effort.
  • Build and operate AI-powered workflows using LLMs and agents with evaluation, human review, and fallback paths.
  • Develop systems for lead routing, data enrichment, and operational processes that connect everyday tools and data.
  • Turn prototypes and existing automations into reliable, maintainable systems with testing, monitoring, access controls, and clear ownership.
  • Own projects from problem definition and implementation through rollout, user feedback, and ongoing support.
  • Make build, buy, and reuse decisions while improving existing systems and reducing duplication.
  • Investigate failures across application code, integrations, and data flows and improve reliability, performance, and cost.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of software engineering experience building and operating production applications, services, or integrations.
  • Strong TypeScript and Python skills, including maintainable and tested production code in both languages.
  • Ability to work directly with technical and non-technical users to turn ambiguous needs into useful products.
  • Practical judgment about using AI, deterministic workflows, and human review to improve team operations.
  • Ability to trace problems across applications, APIs, databases, and infrastructure through resolution.
  • Awareness of reliability, security, data access, and long-term system maintenance.
  • Ability to take ownership, make tradeoffs, and communicate progress and decisions clearly.
  • Preferred experience includes internal tools, business applications, or GTM and Operations automation.
  • Preferred experience includes LLM-powered applications or agent workflows, quality evaluation, failure handling, Rust, cloud infrastructure, background jobs, data pipelines, Salesforce, Snowflake, or Slack.

Benefits

  • The role is based in San Francisco or New York City.
  • The total compensation package includes equity and a full range of benefits and perks.

Tech Stack

Profound

About Profound

201-500 employees

Profound builds a SaaS marketing intelligence platform that helps enterprise brands measure and improve how they appear in AI-driven discovery across tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity. The product delivers real-time visibility analytics, competitive intelligence, and optimization insights for search-like AI channels. The company is privately held, headquartered in New York, and is Series C–funded.

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