Senior Staff AI Engineer

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Senior Staff AI Engineer (3-day hybrid, Santa Clara, CA)

Description

Lead enterprise AI platform and LLM application initiatives as a hands-on technical leader. Define architectural vision and build production-grade capabilities such as model gateways, context management, intelligent routing, evaluation, and LLM observability, while driving scalable AI operations across global teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale enterprise AI platform capabilities (model gateways, intelligent routing, cost governance, LLM observability, evaluation pipelines, long-term agent memory)
• Provide hands-on technical execution for enterprise AI solutions and support (model platform administration, intelligent search, scalable L2 operational support)
• Lead distributed engineering teams across the US and India; align roadmap priorities and conduct technical reviews
• Establish production AI quality gates, including hands-on code development, CI/CD pipelines, regression suites, and latency/cost optimization
• Partner with Security, Legal, Privacy, and enterprise business stakeholders to ensure compliant and secure AI enablement

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of technical leadership experience guiding distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones
• Hands-on experience building and deploying production-grade AI/LLM applications (prompt engineering, RAG, agents, function calling/MCP, evaluation or observability)
• Full-stack development proficiency using Python and TypeScript/Node.js (or Java/Go), plus React and robust API design
• Hands-on cloud and containerized infrastructure expertise (AWS or GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes) and automated CI/CD deployment pipelines
• Production operations experience (incident response, on-call management, runbook development, SLA governance)

Benefits

• Various health plans
• Time off plans for vacation and sick time
• Parental leave options
• Retirement options
• Education reimbursement
• In-office perks