Senior AI Software Engineer & Tech Leader (Hybrid/Remote)

Rivio AI Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Early-stage startup impact

Dynamic collaborative environment

Growth opportunities

Comprehensive health insurance

Job summary

Rivio AI Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to own critical infrastructure and drive growth from 4 to 8+ engineers. You will code most of the time while shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, and guiding a fast-paced startup through rapid growth and ambiguity.

Join a small, high-output team building AI-powered procurement tools, with equity and a hands-on leadership role across the stack. Hybrid SF and US remote options are available.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Build the product across AI agents, knowledge graphs, APIs, and more.
• Own Reliability, Scaling & Performance: unblock bottlenecks, optimize latency, build observability, own agent evals.
• Lead technically: shape architecture, translate business needs into technical direction, push decisions, spot cracks early.
• Help run the team: contribute to roadmap discussions, sprint planning, project scoping, unblocking engineers.
• Raise the bar: set the standard for quality, speed, and ownership; mentor engineers and lead by example.

Skills

Software engineering

AI coding assistant

Distributed systems

Observability

Data ingestion

Engineering leadership

Startup pace

Tools

AWS

CDK

Claude Agent SDK

LLM evaluation

CI/CD

Security engineering

Job description

Rivio AI Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to own critical infrastructure and drive growth from 4 to 8+ engineers. You will code most of the time while shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, and guiding a fast-paced startup through rapid growth and ambiguity.

Join a small, high-output team building AI-powered procurement tools, with equity and a hands-on leadership role across the stack. Hybrid SF and US remote options are available.