Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI
Emergence Capital Partners9 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship AI-powered product features from concept through production deployment.
- Develop and maintain LLM-based systems, including RAG pipelines, agents, and workflow automation.
- Build evaluation frameworks and monitoring systems for AI quality and reliability.
- Work directly with customers to understand workflows, gather feedback, and validate solutions.
- Collaborate with product and design to define the roadmap and prioritize high-impact features.
- Optimize system performance, cost, and latency as usage scales.
- Contribute to technical architecture decisions and establish engineering best practices.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of software engineering experience, including 1–2 years building AI/ML-powered products.
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience with TypeScript or JavaScript for full-stack development.
- Hands-on production experience with LLMs, including prompt engineering, RAG systems, fine-tuning, or agent frameworks.
- Understanding of embeddings, vector databases, evaluation metrics, and model selection.
- Experience building and maintaining production systems with high reliability requirements.
- Strong product intuition and ability to translate ambiguous user needs into technical solutions.
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working directly with customers and stakeholders.
- BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, Pinecone, Weaviate, or Chroma; NLP, information retrieval, or search systems; startup environments; enterprise SaaS domains; open-source AI/ML projects; or developer tools and platforms.
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About Emergence Capital Partners
Emergence Capital Partners is a venture capital firm focused on enterprise software, investing from seed through growth stages. The firm has backed companies such as Salesforce, Zoom, Veeva, Box, and Yammer. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.