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Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI

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Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaSenior
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Base Salary

$250k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build new agents, skills, and platform capabilities for teams across TLDR.
  • Build and deploy agents end to end from design through implementation, evaluations, rollout, and internal-user adoption.
  • Write specifications and evaluations that define quality and make workflow performance measurable.
  • Partner with the Applied AI PM on priorities and independently make smaller product decisions.
  • Work with sales, revenue operations, editorial, and people operations stakeholders to identify where LLMs fit into their processes.
  • Own production agents and continuously improve workflows as model capabilities advance.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience, including 2+ years building products and systems with LLMs.
  • At least one agent taken to production and still owned by the candidate.
  • Fluent coding with AI tools such as Claude Code or Codex.
  • Ability to write evaluations as part of development and explain quality definitions, measurements, and resulting changes.
  • Strong end-to-end execution, product judgment, and ability to work independently.
  • Ability to collaborate with non-engineering stakeholders and identify appropriate LLM applications in their processes.

Benefits

  • Base compensation of $250,000–$300,000 plus an annual company performance bonus of $25,000–$60,000.
  • 100% remote across the US and Canada, with tier-1 city compensation bands regardless of location.
  • Biannual team offsites.
  • Flexible PTO plus holidays.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, including a 100% paid option.
  • Empower 401(k) plan.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Home office stipend.
  • Learning and development stipend, including funding for AI tools.

Tech Stack

AWSGoogle Cloud

Categories

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About TLDR

51-200 employees

TLDR publishes a network of daily tech newsletters that curate links and summaries for professionals in startups, software engineering, AI, security, and product. Revenue comes primarily from newsletter sponsorships and ads sold via its media kit, with topic-specific lists reaching over 8 million subscribers. Privately held and based in San Francisco, its editions are written by practitioners working in tech rather than full-time reporters.

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