Liftoff

Senior Gen AI Software Engineer

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23 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Base Salary

$211k - $270k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own generative AI product capabilities from workflow discovery and prototyping through implementation, rollout, measurement, and improvement.
  • Prototype and validate AI solutions, then convert successful approaches into production-ready capabilities.
  • Build agentic workflows that reason over campaign, customer, creative, and performance data and use structured tool interactions.
  • Design the data, tools, instructions, permissions, and interfaces needed for grounded and dependable AI behavior.
  • Build production reliability systems including state management, failure recovery, human review boundaries, and model-software interfaces.
  • Develop evaluation systems and instrumentation for quality, adoption, business impact, latency, cost, and failure modes.
  • Build Python services and TypeScript and React interfaces for customer-facing AI products.
  • Evaluate new models and techniques and mentor engineers on designing, testing, and operating AI-powered products.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of relevant experience.
  • Seasoned software engineer with experience building and operating meaningful production products, ideally across backend services, data, and user interfaces.
  • Experience shipping LLM-powered or AI-assisted products beyond a demo, including practical reliability, context, tool use, provider-change, latency, cost, and model-behavior challenges.
  • High proficiency in Python and comfort with TypeScript and React, plus strong API design, data modeling, SQL, and testing fundamentals.
  • Ability to build the broader systems around models, including data, tools, instructions, permissions, feedback loops, and quality measures.
  • Ability to define success criteria, investigate failures, and improve AI experiences using testing, feedback, and production signals.
  • Strong product and engineering judgment, communication, collaboration, and comfort operating through ambiguity.
  • Helpful qualifications include early-engineer or startup-founder experience and experience in ad tech, campaign optimization, performance marketing, analytics, or data-rich B2B software.

Benefits

  • Full-time remote work is available in approved entities across CA, CO, ID, IL, FL, GA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NV, NY, OR, PA, TX, UT, and WA, with a preferred Pacific Standard Time Zone location.
  • Remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, and New York City.
  • Employees are expected to attend in-person team gatherings at least once per quarter.
  • Compensation includes equity and health, vision, and dental benefits associated with the employee’s country of residence.
  • Additional benefits may include medical coverage, wellness stipends, and other perks based on country of residence.
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