Base Salary
$232k - $258k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with operational teams and domain experts to understand workflows and identify opportunities for AI agents, automation, or human decision-making.
- Design, develop, deploy, and operate production-grade agentic systems, backend services, APIs, integrations, data pipelines, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Prototype and iterate with users while translating ambiguous business problems into scalable, reliable software.
- Own production reliability through observability, monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, incident response, recovery mechanisms, and performance improvement.
- Develop evaluation, testing, validation, safety, access-control, auditability, data-protection, approval, and escalation mechanisms for AI systems.
- Collaborate with Security, Privacy, Legal, and Data teams to meet safety, compliance, and operational-integrity standards.
- Create reusable agent capabilities, shared services, platform components, integration patterns, architecture standards, deployment practices, and reliability frameworks.
- Lead technical design and architectural decisions and influence engineering direction across teams.
Requirements
- PhD or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field plus two years of full-time software engineering experience, or five years of full-time software engineering experience including three years of specialized technical software engineering experience.
- The specialized software engineering experience may be gained through education, full-time employment, additional training, coursework, research, or a combination of these.
- Strong experience designing, developing, and deploying production backend or distributed systems such as AI-enabled applications, orchestration platforms, APIs, asynchronous workflows, developer platforms, or enterprise integrations.
- Hands-on experience owning production systems, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, troubleshooting, failure recovery, and debugging across application, infrastructure, and data dependencies.
- Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Python, Go, Java, or C++.
- Preferred: experience building agentic AI applications or integrating large language models with tools, APIs, enterprise data sources, and permissioned systems.
- Preferred: familiarity with agent orchestration, evaluation frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation, context management, model routing, and AI safety controls.
- Preferred: experience in site reliability engineering, infrastructure, platform engineering, production engineering, or forward-deployed engineering environments.
- Preferred: experience operating systems for sensitive, business-critical, or operationally consequential workflows and the ability to lead technical design and collaborate with business stakeholders.
Benefits
- Base salary is listed for San Francisco and Sunnyvale, California roles at USD $232,000-$258,000 per year.
- Eligible full-time employees may participate in Uber's bonus program and may receive equity awards and other compensation.
- Eligible full-time employees can participate in a 401(k) plan and receive various benefits.
About Uber
We are Uber. The go-getters. The kind of people who are relentless about our mission to help people go anywhere and get anything and earn their way. Movement is what we power. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real time. At the incredible speed of now. The idea for Uber was born on a snowy night in Paris in 2008, and ever since then our DNA of reimagination and reinvention carries on. We’ve grown into a global platform powering flexible earnings and the movement of people and things in ever expanding ways. We’ve gone from connecting rides on 4 wheels to 2 wheels to 18-wheel freight deliveries. From takeout meals to daily essentials to prescription drugs to just about anything you need at any time and earning your way. From drivers with background checks to real-time verification, safety is a top priority every single day. At Uber, the pursuit of reimagination is never finished, never stops, and is always just beginning.