Software Engineer, Applied AI (Staff+)
Lightfield2 months ago
Base Salary
$220k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve the agent harness, including the agent loop, tools, skills, and memory.
- Build agentic workflows that automate complex, multi-step processes involving deals, pipelines, and customer acquisition.
- Design customer-facing experiences that make data and AI capabilities intuitive and useful.
- Improve product quality, cost, and latency through evaluations, simulation environments, and experiments.
- Build reliable, scalable, high-performance systems with observability, metrics, and operational practices.
- Lead technical design, mentor engineers, and establish engineering best practices.
- Support engineering recruiting and knowledge-sharing.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience building production software.
- Recent hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered products or agents.
- Ability to take ambiguous customer problems through to production.
- Ability to balance ambitious product vision with frequent delivery of user value.
- Clear communication with technical and nontechnical teammates.
- Experience growing and mentoring early-career engineers.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful early equity.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Three weeks of paid time off, 11 paid company holidays, and a winter holiday break.
- Three months of paid family leave.
- Work from home on Wednesdays.
- 401(k) plan.
- Regular team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats.
- Commuter and lunch stipends.
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About Lightfield
Lightfield builds an AI-native CRM that assembles itself from a company’s email, calendars, and meetings to create accounts, tasks, and follow-ups. It sells a cloud subscription to sales and go-to-market teams seeking automated capture and context. Headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held, backed by Greylock, Lightspeed, and Coatue, and reports adoption by 5,000+ companies since launch.