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Staff Software Engineer, AI
Location
California + 8 moreAll locations: California | Florida | Illinois | New York | North Carolina | Ohio | Michigan | Pennsylvania | Texas
Posted
10 days ago
Salary
$210K - $260K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Software Engineer, AI
Juniper Square
• Own Technical Direction and Architecture • Set the technical direction for AI systems - including shared AI SDKs, guardrails, evaluation frameworks, feedback systems, and agentic workflow infrastructure • Own architecture and technical strategy for complex backend and AI platform systems, from design through production • Lead technical design for ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives - evaluating tradeoffs, aligning stakeholders, and driving implementation • Evaluate and select technologies with a bias toward what ships well and scales sustainably • Build and Operate AI Systems • Write production code as a hands-on individual contributor - this is not a role that delegates implementation to others • Design and operate LLM-powered systems: RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, evaluation infrastructure, guardrails, and model observability • Own end-to-end reliability of AI systems from design through structured output delivery • Define quality benchmarks, evaluation frameworks, and feedback loops to continuously improve AI output accuracy and system reliability • Champion AI-Native Development • Champion and embed AI-native development practices and tools (e.g., Cursor, Augment) to achieve significant productivity gains across the team • Foster a culture of rapid iteration, high velocity, and quality - including guiding the effective use of AI code generation • Bring strong, informed opinions about how to get the most from AI-assisted development while maintaining reliability and correctness • Lead and Grow the Team • Mentor engineers, raise the quality of technical decision-making, and help the team execute with consistency • Establish coding standards, review practices, and architectural documentation that scale as the team grows • Help define what "good" looks like for a team building at speed without sacrificing quality • Partner with recruiting to build and grow the team • Collaborate Cross-Functionally • Work closely with engineering managers, product, design, and QA to translate requirements into executable technical plans • Participate actively in design reviews and roadmap discussions with grounded, implementation-level perspective • Handle most cross-team conflicts and technical decisions autonomously
Job Requirements
- 7+ years of backend and/or ML engineering experience with a trajectory of increasing technical leadership, architectural responsibility, and mentorship
- A portfolio of shipped production systems - we will ask you to walk through specific technical decisions you personally made and code you personally wrote; this is not a role for someone whose primary contribution has been directing others
- Deep expertise in Python, with strong proficiency in building production-grade backend services; experience with other server-side languages (Node/TS, Java) a plus
- Production experience building and operating AI/LLM-powered systems — such as AI SDKs, RAG pipelines, evaluation frameworks, agentic workflows, or model observability — in real systems, not just experimentation
- Experience leading technical design for complex systems, including making architecture decisions, evaluating tradeoffs, and guiding implementation across multiple engineers or teams
- Experience with relational/NoSQL databases, including schema design, performance tuning, and data modeling
- Experience building and operating cloud-native systems using AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, observability, reliability, and operational excellence in production environments
- Ability to work through ambiguity, break down complex problems, and drive alignment across engineering, product, and design
- Demonstrated ability to raise engineering quality through technical standards, design reviews, mentoring, and reusable platform patterns
- Hands-on experience with AI-native development tools (e.g., Cursor, Augment); demonstrated ability to embed AI-driven practices to accelerate team velocity and code quality
- Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated code and outputs, including identifying failure modes, regressions, and edge cases
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
- Life insurance
- Mental wellness coverage
- Fertility and growing family support
- Flex Time Off in addition to company-paid holidays
- Paid family leave, medical leave, and bereavement leave policies
- Retirement saving plans
- Allowance to customize your work and technology setup at home
- Annual professional development stipend
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