Senior Chief Engineer - Onsite SF, Hands-On Domain Lead

Rise Talent Advisors; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Rise Talent Advisors is partnering with a San Francisco AI software company to hire a Chief Engineer on site in San Francisco five days a week. The role leads a pod and owns a domain end to end, writing code and setting technical standards for high-impact AI systems.

You will work closely with product management, shape the technical direction, and drive delivery across core AI runtime, data systems and conversational agents. Equity is included in the offer.

Qualifications

• 6 to 14 years of experience with a Staff or Principal software engineer title.
• Startup experience through Series A–C, under 500 people.
• End-to-end ownership of a critical system or product.
• Hands-on production experience building large language model agents live with real users.
• Current hands-on coding with recent examples of code you wrote and debugged.
• Strong engineering fundamentals in Node.js, React and Python.
• Daily, deep use of frontier AI tools in workflow.
• On-site in San Francisco five days a week.

Responsibilities

• Own a technical domain end to end and run a pod directly, staying deeply hands on.
• Design the systems for your domain and write the code; set the technical bar by doing the work.
• Ship, review and hold the line on quality and speed across your domain.
• Steer and unblock the engineers and leads in your domain, and grow their technical ability while staying hands on.
• Partner as an equal with your domain's product manager on what the domain delivers and its impact.
• Take part in a regular technical council with the founders and help shape the product's direction.
• Build on frontier models and make AI development tools standard practice for everyone in your domain.
• Domains could include core AI runtime, retrieval/evaluation/data systems, conversational agents, integrations with customer systems, analytics on outcomes, and the shared data platform.

Skills

Node.js

React

Python

Conversational AI

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

MS or PhD (preferred)

Job description

Rise Talent Advisors is partnering with a San Francisco AI software company to hire a Chief Engineer on site in San Francisco five days a week. The role leads a pod and owns a domain end to end, writing code and setting technical standards for high-impact AI systems.

You will work closely with product management, shape the technical direction, and drive delivery across core AI runtime, data systems and conversational agents. Equity is included in the offer.