Staff+ Software Engineer, Vertical AI Products (Multiple Roles)
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What the team is looking for.
Job Overview
We're seeking Staff+ Software Engineers to build AI products for various industries, including financial services, science, healthcare, and enterprise AI workflows. You'll be a technical leader, responsible for designing and delivering end-to-end products, collaborating with research, product, design, and go-to-market teams.
Responsibilities
- Own technical design and delivery for a core piece of one of these vertical or enterprise products, end-to-end across the stack
- Work closely with research to make the models better in your domain , shaping evals, surfacing failure modes, and feeding customer learnings back into model development
- Partner with product, design, and go-to-market to turn enterprise customer workflows into shipped product, not just execute against a spec
- Set technical direction and standards for your team , architecture, code quality, and how the team builds
- Work directly with enterprise customers and sales during key conversations, translating what you learn into engineering priorities
- Mentor other engineers and raise the technical bar across the team, working with influence rather than authority
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with 2+ years at a Staff or equivalent technical leadership level
- Led the design and delivery of complex enterprise or B2B products across the full stack
- Built AI products and know what it takes to turn model capabilities into applications people actually use
- Comfortable working directly with enterprise customers and translating what you learn into technical decisions
- Built products from 0 to 1 in fast-moving environments, and can set technical direction with limited precedent to lean on
- Drive cross-team alignment to ship impactful work, with influence over authority
Nice to Have
- Experience working with research to improve domain-specific model capabilities, including evaluation frameworks
- Deep domain knowledge in one of these areas: investment banking, asset management, insurance, or corporate finance; scientific research or computational biology; clinical operations, health systems, or payers; or enterprise platform work
- Exposure to both product-led growth and direct enterprise sales
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Lovely office space
- AI
- software engineering
- technical leadership
- enterprise products
- domain-specific model capabilities
- evaluation frameworks
- investment banking
- asset management
- insurance
- corporate finance
- scientific research
- computational biology
- clinical operations
- health systems
- payers
- enterprise platform work
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