about 2 months ago
Base Salary
$225k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with AI labs and cross-functional stakeholders to understand technical challenges, translate ambiguous requirements into engineering plans, and drive alignment.
- Own the design, architecture, and delivery of tailored production-grade solutions for complex customer needs.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews and architectural guidance while establishing forward-deployed engineering best practices.
- Make architectural decisions involving reliability, scalability, and security and set technical direction for repeatable deployment patterns.
- Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on tools based on real-time customer feedback while balancing delivery speed and maintainability.
- Create and maintain technical playbooks, documentation, and frameworks that help scale deployments efficiently.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including meaningful experience in customer-facing, solutions-oriented, or forward-deployed roles.
- Strong proficiency with React and TypeScript, with emphasis on code quality, usability, and accessibility.
- Deep understanding of relational databases such as PostgreSQL, data modeling, and system design.
- Experience with AWS or GCP cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and production operations at scale.
- Ability to lead technical projects end to end in ambiguous environments with shifting requirements.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices within a team.
- Preferred experience architecting and delivering production systems for LLMs or other AI-powered products in customer-facing environments.
- Preferred experience with component libraries, design systems, reusable deployment frameworks, performance optimization, and scaling full-stack applications.
- Prior forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or technical consulting experience at a high-growth company is preferred.
Benefits
- Equity in a fast-growing company; 401(k) match and financial coaching; paid parental leave, fertility benefits, and parental coaching; medical, dental, vision, and mental health support; $500 wellness stipend; $2,000 learning stipend; internet, commuting support, free lunch and gym access in the San Francisco office; flexible PTO, 15 holidays, and 2 flex days; team outings and referral bonuses.
- Full-time US employee benefits apply; role is based in San Francisco and requires working in the office 5 days per week.