Staff Software Engineer – AI-Native Development
SimSpace Corporation2 days ago
Base Salary
$185k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and model AI-native, spec-driven software development practices, including how AI agents are directed and their output is reviewed, tested, and owned.
- Create durable engineering standards, playbooks, templates, documentation, examples, and internal talks for AI-assisted development.
- Evaluate emerging AI tools and workflows and adopt those that improve delivery.
- Lead complex cross-team initiatives from problem framing and architecture through delivery and rollout.
- Build alignment across Product, Engineering, QA, and platform teams while resolving technical dependencies.
- Improve end-to-end testing, quality gates, feedback loops, and release confidence in CI/CD pipelines.
- Identify and build or adopt trustworthy headless AI agents for CI/CD, event-triggered, or background-worker automation.
- Own team technical direction and execution in partnership with the Engineering Manager.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design walkthroughs and make architectural and technical decisions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of leading technical projects end to end across teams.
- Daily use of AI coding agents and the ability to demonstrate how AI has changed individual and team delivery practices.
- Familiarity with spec-driven development using AI agents, including specifications, plans, and acceptance criteria.
- Demonstrated ability to establish engineering standards adopted by multiple teams.
- Proven cross-organization collaboration with Product, QA, platform teams, and engineers across the organization.
- Deep hands-on software engineering expertise, ideally in TypeScript, React, or Kotlin.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including explaining trade-offs to non-engineering partners.
- Preferred experience building headless coding agents, improving end-to-end testing in CI/CD pipelines, and delivering quickly through small batches and short feedback loops.
- Preferred familiarity with trunk-based development, feature flags, progressive delivery, and fast rollback.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits with coverage starting on day one, plus savings plans.
- Company-paid counseling, coaching, and family resources through Spring Health.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match.
- Unlimited vacation and dedicated health and wellness days.
- Paid parental leave.
- Equity stock options at hire and annual performance-based grants.
- Employee referral rewards of $1,500–$3,500 per qualified hire.
- Full and partial subsidized Peloton membership plans and equipment discounts.
- LinkedIn Learning membership and monthly SocialSpace Community reimbursements.
- Legal plan coverage, pet insurance, wellness reimbursements, and other perks.
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About SimSpace Corporation
SimSpace builds cyber ranges and a live-fire simulation platform used by governments, militaries, and large enterprises to train cyber teams, validate defenses, and test AI agents. The company sells software and expert services for training, threat emulation, and technology evaluation in replicas of production environments. Founded in 2015 by veterans of U.S. Cyber Command and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, SimSpace is privately held and headquartered in Orlando, Florida.