Pave

Staff AI Engineer

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4 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$221k - $299k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Shape the technical vision and execution for Pave’s AI compensation analyst.
  • Build an agentic system that reasons over structured compensation data and executes multi-step workflows across Pave’s platform.
  • Lead AI product initiatives end-to-end from concept through production and market launch.
  • Define technical primitives and patterns that other engineers can build upon.
  • Partner with Product, engineers, and data scientists to determine what AI-driven customer solutions to build.
  • Drive technical alignment across teams.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience building production systems.
  • Deep hands-on expertise in 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 ambiguous 0-to-1 technical initiatives from concept to production.
  • Pragmatic engineering judgment regarding speed and quality investments.
  • Ability to drive technical alignment across teams and define primitives and patterns for other engineers.
  • Founder mentality, ownership, urgency, and bias toward action.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
  • Flexible paid time off 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 requiring in-person collaboration 3 to 4 days per week, with company-wide Team Sync every Friday.

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About Pave

51-200 employees

Pave is the AI compensation platform that gives compensation and total rewards leaders the tools they need to take control of their programs, make decisions with confidence, and build credibility with every employee. Pave Agent, your AI compensation analyst, delivers instant answers to complex questions grounded in your internal data and real-time market intelligence from 8,700+ companies. Pave, the AI compensation platform, connects with your existing HR platforms so you can benchmark pay, price jobs, run merit cycles, and communicate total rewards in one place.