Pave

Senior Software Engineer, Agent

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2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$196k - $265k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build Pave’s AI compensation analyst and its agentic workflows over Pave’s proprietary compensation dataset and workflow engine.
  • Develop systems that reason over structured compensation data and execute multi-step workflows such as market pricing, cycle planning, and attrition analysis.
  • Shape the technical vision and execute end-to-end product development through launch.
  • Lead ambiguous 0-to-1 technical initiatives from concept to production.
  • Define technical primitives and patterns that other engineers can build on.
  • Drive technical alignment across engineering, data science, and product teams.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience building production systems.
  • Deep hands-on expertise with LLMs, agentic architectures, retrieval systems, and evaluation frameworks.
  • Strong product intuition and the ability to identify customer problems that AI can uniquely solve.
  • Proven experience leading 0-to-1 technical initiatives in highly ambiguous environments.
  • Pragmatic engineering judgment and the ability to balance speed with quality.
  • Ability to drive technical alignment across teams and bring others along with technical decisions.
  • Founder mentality, ownership, urgency, and a bias toward action.

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
  • Flexible PTO and the ability to work from anywhere in the world for up to one month.
  • Lunch and dinner stipends plus fully stocked kitchens.
  • Quarterly education stipend.
  • Robust parental leave.
  • Commuter stipend.
  • Hybrid work culture with in-person collaboration three to four days per week.

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About Pave

201-500 employees

Pave builds a SaaS compensation platform for HR, finance, and total rewards teams to benchmark pay, run merit cycles, and communicate total rewards. It combines internal data with market intelligence from 9,000+ companies and integrates with common HR systems; customers include Stripe, Atlassian, and Databricks. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company sells its software on a subscription basis.

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