Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack – San Francisco

8+ years developing production software, including designing, testing, and operating services at scale in a cloud environment.

Hands-on experience with modern LLM providers and tooling (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, vector stores, RAG patterns).

Familiarity with prompt design, retrieval-augmented systems, evaluation methods, and safety/guardrail approaches.

Ability to reason about tradeoffs between different models, architectures, and deployment patterns and make pragmatic decisions.

Comfortable working in a high-ownership, fast-paced environment where experiments and iteration are the norm.

TypeScript/Node.js and Python for AI and backend services.

Modern LLM APIs and orchestration libraries for building agentic workflows.

Postgres and other managed cloud services for data and state.

Speed over everything: prototype AI workflows quickly, then harden what works.​

Own, downscope, ship, iterate: one clear owner per feature, from prototype to production.​

Fundamentals done well: evaluation, observability, and safety are part of the first version, not an afterthought.​

Competitive salary and meaningful equity.

Health, dental, and vision coverage.

Flexible time off and support for experimentation, learning, and staying current with the AI ecosystem.