5 months ago
Base Salary
$175k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and deliver vertical AI agent workflows for Sales and Health use cases, including tool orchestration, memory, and multi-step reasoning.
- Translate business requirements into scalable backend and service capabilities.
- Design and implement production-ready architectures with high availability, low latency, and scalability.
- Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, and reliability foundations for consumer and enterprise deployments.
- Contribute to agent evaluation frameworks, automated testing, and quality benchmarking.
- Partner with Applied AI and Product teams to create closed-loop improvements using real-world production data.
- Collaborate with Product, Applied AI, and go-to-market teams on enterprise proofs of concept and consumer-facing features.
- Drive modularization and reusability to accelerate expansion into additional verticals.
- Use AI coding assistants, automated test generation, and debugging tools to improve engineering efficiency while maintaining quality.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of hands-on software engineering experience with end-to-end ownership of critical components.
- Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language, such as Python, Go, Java, or C++.
- Experience building scalable online services with API design, asynchronous workflows, and microservice architectures.
- Knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals, including databases, caching, messaging systems, and performance optimization.
- Experience delivering production systems with a focus on reliability, latency, and scalability.
- Knowledge of observability practices including logging, monitoring, alerting, and tracing.
- Experience with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and disciplined code review.
- Strong interest in LLM applications, AI agents, or workflow automation and the ability to productize them.
- Understanding of AI system evaluation, safety, and production feedback loops.
- Ability to collaborate with Product, Applied AI, and go-to-market teams and execute effectively under ambiguity.
Benefits
- Top-tier healthcare, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with an employer subsidy.
- 401(k) plan with company matching for full-time employees.
- Unlimited paid time off and 13 paid holidays.
- 12 weeks of paid new-parent leave for all genders.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring at least three days in the office per week.
- Choice of a new laptop and workstation setup.
- Annual offsites, office equipment, and free office drinks and snacks.
About Plaud
Plaud builds AI-powered hardware devices and companion apps that capture, transcribe, and summarize meetings and other conversations for professionals. The company sells its consumer electronics and meeting software directly, with subscription services layered on its devices and cloud platform. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, Plaud is privately held and lists SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and ISO 27001/27701 compliance.