Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Applied AI

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join the product engineering team at a Series A industrial staffing and AI platform company. You will bring AI agents into real-world marketplace workflows and build the backend systems and platform that support staffing, worker matching, and operational automation.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Define how AI agents are applied across product workflows, including sourcing, vetting, matching, and placement.
• Design and lead core systems, including real-time matching and automated vetting pipelines.
• Build and maintain scalable backend services and platform architecture for evolving product needs.
• Improve system performance, reliability, and capacity while making pragmatic infrastructure decisions.
• Partner with technical and cross-functional teams to turn ambiguous problems into production-ready solutions.
• Contribute to agent harnesses, evaluation systems, orchestration patterns, and model strategy as needed.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Typically 5 or more years of software engineering experience for Senior roles, or 7 or more years for Staff roles, with end-to-end product ownership.
• Hands-on experience building products at fast-growing startups, including taking projects from early prototypes to production at scale.
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js skills, with experience designing APIs, distributed systems, and data models.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and messaging or streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Experience shipping applied AI or agentic products, and familiarity with coding agents and rapid prototyping.
• Strong product judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and an ability to work across teams and with operational users.
• Relevant experience in AI, marketplaces, matching or recommendation systems, staffing, recruiting, or operational platforms is valuable.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and a record of sustained contributions in engineering roles.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

LOCATION

On-site in San Francisco, California.