Chief Engineer (Staff Engineer)
Interface AI5 months ago
Base Salary
$330k - $375k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and implementation of an entire technical domain, including writing production code.
- Set and maintain the technical bar through shipping, code review, and quality and velocity standards.
- Steer and unblock engineers and technical leads while growing the domain's technical capability without becoming a pure manager.
- Own domain outcomes and impact in partnership with the Domain PM.
- Lead technical decisions across the domain and shape an AI-native engineering workflow using frontier models, Claude Code, and Cursor.
- Potentially own AI runtimes, agent systems, integrations, data platforms, fraud detection, developer platforms, reliability systems, or AI-native banking experiences.
Requirements
- Senior-most individual contributor at Staff level or a hands-on technical founder who remains actively involved in building.
- Experience owning a critical domain or system end-to-end at high scale or at a high-velocity Series A–D startup.
- Deep technical credibility, including leading major cross-team technical decisions without relying on direct authority.
- Current hands-on experience architecting, coding, reviewing, and shipping production systems.
- Daily use and strong fluency with frontier AI tools and AI-assisted development workflows.
- Strong systems and reliability instincts with real ownership of production systems at scale.
- First-principles problem-solving, high learning velocity, and comfort with startup ambiguity and pace.
- BS or BA in Computer Science required.
- MS or PhD preferred.
- Conversational AI, voice AI, agentic systems, fintech, banking, regulated financial services, platform creation, published writing, conference talks, or open-source AI systems and platform engineering experience are beneficial.
- Must be based in San Francisco and committed to working onsite; H1B transfers are welcome.
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
- Discretionary PTO and paid parental leave
- Mental health, wellness, and family benefits
- San Francisco-based onsite work at the company's 21st-floor office
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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.