Staff Engineer

Role Overview

Join an AI infrastructure startup at the earliest stage and receive significant compensation and ownership. The company is building production AI systems for challenging enterprise workflows where reliability, governance, compliance, and scalability matter.

What You Will Do

Own the technical architecture and long-term technical vision of the platform, design and build production-grade AI infrastructure and agent orchestration systems, and drive technical strategy.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Ideal candidates have 6+ years of software engineering experience, at least 2 years operating at Staff, Principal, Founding Engineer, or equivalent senior technical leadership level, and experience leading development of LLM-powered products or AI systems end-to-end.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• At least 2 years operating at Staff, Principal, Founding Engineer, or equivalent senior technical leadership level
• Experience leading development of LLM-powered products or AI systems end-to-end
• Strong startup experience during periods of rapid growth
• Experience building enterprise-facing AI products
• Strong distributed systems and cloud infrastructure expertise
• Deep experience with Kubernetes and scalable infrastructure platforms
• Strong AI engineering experience beyond research and experimentation
• Experience building production agent systems, orchestration frameworks, or AI infrastructure
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers
• Strong engineering leadership and mentoring experience
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Comfortable operating in highly ambiguous startup environments
• Proven recruiting and hiring experience
• Strong understanding of AI tooling, prompting, and AI-assisted development workflows
• Ability to balance technical leadership with hands-on execution
• Experience scaling systems and engineering organizations

Benefits

• Base salary: $220,000 – $380,000+
• Competitive equity package
• Direct path toward CTO-level responsibilities
• Potential equity restructuring for exceptional candidates
• Visa sponsorship available (transfers preferred)
• Relocation assistance available
• Backed by respected venture investors and experienced operators
• Opportunity to define technical architecture from the ground up
• High visibility across leadership and company strategy
• Significant influence over hiring and engineering culture
• Exposure to cutting-edge AI infrastructure challenges
• Opportunity to work directly with enterprise customers
• Fast-moving startup environment with substantial ownership
• Foundational role in shaping a rapidly growing company