Chief Engineer (Principal Engineer)
Interface AI5 months ago
Base Salary
$330k - $375k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own a technical domain’s architecture, implementation, technical quality, and business outcomes end-to-end
- Design systems and write production code alongside the team
- Ship and review code while maintaining the technical bar for quality and velocity
- Steer and unblock engineers and leads and grow the domain’s technical capability without becoming a pure manager
- Partner with the Domain PM as an equal on domain outcomes
- Build on frontier models and establish AI development tools such as Claude Code and Cursor as standard practice
- Participate in a weekly technical council alongside the founders
Requirements
- Senior-most individual contributor at Principal or Distinguished level, or a hands-on technical founder
- Production experience building core systems at real scale
- Experience taking ambiguous, company-defining systems or products from 0 to 1 or 0 to GA
- Deep credibility in AI and agents or comparable subject-matter expertise
- Daily use of frontier AI tools and experience reshaping team workflows around them
- Strong first-principles problem-solving, learning velocity, and judgment in high-ambiguity environments
- BS or BA in Computer Science required; MS or PhD is a strong plus
- San Francisco-based and committed to working onsite
- Conversational AI, voice AI, agentic systems, fintech, banking, regulated financial services, platform engineering, published writing, conference talks, or open-source experience are valued
Benefits
- 100% paid health, dental, and vision care
- 401(k) and financial wellness perks
- Daily meals
- Commuter benefit
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Claude Enterprise and frontier AI tools for every employee
- San Francisco office at 44 Montgomery with onsite work
- Discretionary paid time off and paid parental leave
- Mental health, wellness, and family benefits
- Founding-team-tier equity and comprehensive benefits
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About Interface AI
Interface AI builds generative AI virtual assistants for community banks and credit unions, powering autonomous customer-service interactions across voice, chat, and employee-assisted channels. The company sells an AI platform and pre-trained agents delivered as enterprise software to financial institutions, integrating with voice systems and APIs. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and raised a $30M Series A in 2024.