AI Software Engineer — Build Production AI Features

People In AI

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 170,000 - 310,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation
Meaningful equity
Hybrid work environment

Job summary

A VC-backed SaaS company in San Francisco is seeking an AI Software Engineer to design and build AI-powered features for their core product. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, experience in integrating APIs, and is comfortable taking ownership of full feature lifecycles. This role emphasizes real-world impact with a competitive compensation and a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production systems.
  • Hands-on experience integrating external APIs, ideally LLM APIs.
  • Comfort working across the full lifecycle of a feature, from prototype to production.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship AI-powered features embedded directly into the core product.
  • Integrate LLM APIs into backend systems for document understanding.
  • Design and operate retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals
Building backend services
Integrating external APIs
Ownership mindset
Experience with LLM APIs

Job description

A VC-backed SaaS company in San Francisco is seeking an AI Software Engineer to design and build AI-powered features for their core product. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, experience in integrating APIs, and is comfortable taking ownership of full feature lifecycles. This role emphasizes real-world impact with a competitive compensation and a hybrid work environment.
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