Senior Software Engineer, AI Growth

Sanity CMS; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health plans

Positive work environment

Work-life balance

Job summary

A leading content operations platform is seeking a developer to contribute to AI-native development. This role involves building tools for AI-powered content operations and requires solid experience with TypeScript, React, and Node.js. Candidates should be passionate about AI and eager to innovate. The position offers a competitive salary of $190K - $230K annually, along with a positive workplace culture that promotes diversity and professional growth.

Qualifications

• Strong TypeScript, React, and Node.js skills are required.
• Experience with AI-powered code production is essential.
• Fluency in the current AI landscape is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and advance the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.
• Ship systems for generating Sanity apps and studios.
• Design and run evaluation suites for model improvements.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Node.js

AI prompt engineering

Collaboration

Education

Experience in AI development

Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, or Vercel AI SDKs

Tools

MCP servers

Job description

At Sanity, we’re building the future of AI-powered Content Operations. Our AI Content Operating System gives teams the freedom to model, create, and automate content the way their business works, accelerating digital development and supercharging content operations efficiency. Companies like Linear, Figma, Riot Games, Anthropic, Spotify, Arc’teryx and Morningbrew are using Sanity to power and automate their content operations.

In this role, you’ll help build the full vertical for AI-native development at Sanity – from advancing our Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to shipping agentic systems that can scaffold Sanity apps, Studios, and full-stack frontends. You’ll work closely with a designer, product manager, and fellow engineers to move fast, experiment constantly, and turn emerging AI capabilities into real products. If you’re the kind of person who stays up late tinkering with new model releases and thinks in terms of what’s possible rather than what’s been done before, this is your role.

Here’s some of what we’ve shipped recently:

Sanity Agent Toolkit – agent rules exposed via MCP, plus a Claude Code plugin with skills and slash commands.

Advance our MCP server – add new capabilities, tools, and integrations that let AI agents interact deeply with Sanity’s content platform.

Build agentic developer tools – ship systems that can generate Sanity apps and studios, as well as frontend code with minimal human guidance.

Design and run evals – build evaluation suites using Braintrust to catch regressions, measure improvements, and make data-driven decisions about prompt and model changes.

Build a Sanity MCP app – create rich React interfaces on top of the MCP protocol for platforms like ChatGPT (using the new ChatGPT Apps SDK) and Claude.

Move across the stack daily – one day you’re designing a new MCP tool, the next you’re polishing a React component or deploying a new microservice.

Apply prompt engineering craft – diagnose why models fail, steer them effectively, and build intuition for what makes prompts work at scale.

Ship production AI features – write clean, well-tested TypeScript and turn experiments into reliable capabilities that thousands of developers use.

Collaborate with the team – work closely with design, product, and engineering to iterate quickly and share what you learn.

Based in San Francisco / Bay Area – able to work at least 2 days a week from the office.

Strong TypeScript, React, and Node.js skills – you’re comfortable moving between frontend and backend, and a pure specialist profile isn’t what we’re after.

Shipped AI-powered code to production – whether at work or through side projects, you’ve built real things with OpenAI, Anthropic, or Vercel AI SDKs.

Actively using MCP in your workflow – you’ve enhanced your own development with MCP servers. Bonus if you’ve built one yourself.

Fluent in the current AI landscape – you can articulate the differences between Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini 3, and GPT-5.2, and you have opinions on tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Lovable, and v0.

Hungry and curious – you’re obsessed with the craft, experimenting constantly, and energized by how fast this space moves.

Strong prompt intuition – you can “decode” why a model is hallucinating or ignoring instructions without relying solely on automated evals.

Collaborative and clear communicator – you work well with designers and product managers, and you can explain complex AI concepts simply.

Not sure you meet every requirement? If you’re building in this space and can’t stop thinking about what’s next, we want to hear from you.

A highly-skilled, inspiring, and supportive team

Positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment that encourages long-term professional and personal growth

A global, multi-culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers

Comprehensive health plans and perks

A healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs

Salary Range: $190K - $230K annually. Final compensation within this range will be determined based on the candidate’s experience and skill set.

Sanity is a modern, flexible content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems. One of our big differentiators is treating content as data so that it can be stored in a single source of truth, but seamlessly adapted and personalized for any channel without extra effort. Forward-thinking companies choose Sanity because they can create tailored content authoring experiences, customized workflows, and content models that reflect their business.

Sanity recently raised a $85m Series C led by GP Bullhound and is also backed by leading investors like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, Heavybit and Shopify, as well as founders of companies like Vercel, WPEngine, Twitter, Mux, Netlify and Heroku. This funding round has put Sanity in a strong position for accelerated growth in the coming years.

You can only build a great company with a great culture. Sanity is a 200+ person company with highly committed and ambitious people. We are pioneers, we exist for our customers, we are hel ved, and we love type two fun! Read more about our values here!

Sanity pledges to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our product serves. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.