Senior Applied AI Engineer, Business Automation — SF

interface.ai; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision

401(k)

Daily meals

Commuter benefit

Wellness stipend

Claude Enterprise tools

SF office

Parental leave

Mental health benefits

Mission-driven team

Job summary

interface.ai in San Francisco seeks an Applied AI Engineer, Business Automation, to build systems that boost productivity across teams. You’ll own the in‑house automation platform, integrate AI tools, and deliver end‑to‑end workflows from intake to outcome.

The role requires 3+ years in software engineering at SWE II / Senior level, strong AI/LLM experience, and proficiency in TypeScript or Python. Office‑based five days/week with leadership. Equity offered.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering at SWE II / Senior level with owned production systems.
• Strong applied AI/LLM engineering: tool use, context and retrieval, prompt design, evaluations, and agentic workflows.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and/or Python, with the ability to build integrations, services, and interfaces employees need to use your work.
• Experience automating real workflows end‑to‑end across APIs, SaaS tools, and business systems, including exceptions, failures, and human handoffs.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar business domains quickly, ask precise questions, and turn ambiguous needs into useful software.
• Product judgment and ownership: you prioritize valuable problems, ship focused solutions, and stay accountable for adoption, reliability, and measurable improvement.
• Daily fluency with frontier AI tools in your own work, with concrete examples of how they improve your productivity.
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field from a top‑tier program; strong engineering fundamentals.
• Self‑directed and decisive: you identify problems before they’re assigned, propose solutions before they’re requested, and close loops without reminders.
• Based in San Francisco and committed to working in the office five days a week with the founders and team.

Responsibilities

• Discover workflows, map recurring work, bottlenecks, handoffs, and exceptions; set baselines and roadmap priorities by impact and effort.
• Own the in‑house business automation platform; build and evolve shared integrations, knowledge access, and agent orchestration.
• Deliver automation from intake to completion; connect context gathering, execution, approvals, updates, and follow‑through to verifiable outcomes.
• Translate business rules, terminology, data dependencies, and edge cases into workflow logic with clear human review where needed.
• Continuously evaluate frontier models, agent frameworks, automation platforms, and SaaS capabilities; blend tools with custom engineering.
• Own architecture, APIs, data models, prompts, evaluations, deployment, and maintenance with proper access controls and monitoring.
• Pilot with teams, train users, document workflows, and drive adoption by measuring hours saved, cycle time, and operating costs.

Skills

SWE II / Senior

Applied AI / LLM

TypeScript / Python

End-to-end automation

Domain learning ability

Product judgment

Frontier AI tools

CS fundamentals

Self-directed

San Francisco based

Education

BSc in CS or related field

Tools

TypeScript

Python

Agent frameworks

Job description

interface.ai in San Francisco seeks an Applied AI Engineer, Business Automation, to build systems that boost productivity across teams. You’ll own the in‑house automation platform, integrate AI tools, and deliver end‑to‑end workflows from intake to outcome.

The role requires 3+ years in software engineering at SWE II / Senior level, strong AI/LLM experience, and proficiency in TypeScript or Python. Office‑based five days/week with leadership. Equity offered.