Senior AI Engineer – Backend & Data Orchestration

Whirl AI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health plan coverage

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Whirl AI in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the engineering behind our AI agents and the data infrastructure that powers them. You are a backend-leaning generalist who ships reliable systems and has real impact on early-stage product direction.

You will work on agent tooling, orchestration, and data ingestion pipelines, collaborating closely with founders in a hybrid schedule (in-office Tue-Thu) to move fast while maintaining high quality.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on production experience with LLMs or AI APIs.
• Experience with agent frameworks, tool-calling systems, or AI orchestration layers.
• Experience designing and operating data ingestion or ETL pipelines.
• Strong backend fundamentals with full-stack capability (React/TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL).
• Startup experience strongly preferred; large-company candidates welcome with IC ownership and high autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain agent tooling: the tools, actions, and APIs that our AI agents use to operate.
• Develop agent orchestration systems that coordinate multi-step, multi-agent workflows reliably.
• Own data ingestion pipelines that bring customer data into our platform cleanly and at scale.
• Integrate AI APIs and third-party services, selecting the right building blocks rather than rebuilding from scratch.
• Take full ownership of projects from design through deployment and monitoring.

Skills

5–7 years experience

LLMs/AI APIs

Agent orchestration

ETL pipelines

Python/PostgreSQL

React/TypeScript

Tools

React

TypeScript

Tailwind CSS

Python

PostgreSQL

DuckDB

OpenAI APIs

Anthropic APIs

AWS ECS

GitLab

Linear

Figma

Honeycomb

Job description

Whirl AI in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the engineering behind our AI agents and the data infrastructure that powers them. You are a backend-leaning generalist who ships reliable systems and has real impact on early-stage product direction.

You will work on agent tooling, orchestration, and data ingestion pipelines, collaborating closely with founders in a hybrid schedule (in-office Tue-Thu) to move fast while maintaining high quality.