Senior Staff AI Frontend Engineer

Thomas Talent Network

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 250,000 - 315,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Equity in addition to competitive cash

100% employer-paid medical, dental, &视

Paid parental leave

$500 annual learning fund

$100 monthly wellness fund

401k via Betterment

Relocation support to San Francisco

Pre-tax parking and transit account

Daily curated local meals delivered to

Free snacks and drinks

Free onsite gym access

Secure bike room

Job summary

Confidential client in San Francisco is seeking a Staff AI Frontend Engineer who will shape AI-native workflows and enterprise UI. You will own end-to-end frontend features, from React components to API integration, while collaborating with product and backend teams to deliver scalable, intuitive experiences.

The role emphasizes building real-time WebRTC streaming, generative dashboards, and agentic UI, with a strong design sensibility and a track record of shipping rapidly in a startup setting.

Qualifications

6+ years shipping production-grade products, Senior to Staff level.
Mastery of modern web technologies: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind with performance-minded code.
AI-native developer leveraging AI tools as extensions of craft.
Engineer first, designer by instinct; discuss Server vs Client Components fluently.
High agency; experience as founder, founding engineer, or with significant scope at a startup.
On the bleeding edge of AI tooling; can articulate stack changes in recent months.
Comfortable talking to customers and sales; influence product through action.
Based in SF or willing to relocate immediately; in-person 5 days a week downtown SF.

Responsibilities

Architect scalable frontend systems with reusable components and patterns.
Own and ship primary user-facing features from React components to API integration.
Bridge AI capabilities with elegant UX, exposing powerful functionality while hiding complexity.
Build real-time WebRTC streaming for the companion agent and generative dashboards.
Prototype design concepts with AI in code; deliver working demos across teams.
Shape how the team scales code review and SDLC with agents encoding architectural thinking.

Skills

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Tailwind

AI tooling

WebRTC

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

v0.dev

Lovable

Job description

Confidential client — a Series B enterprise AI company (51-200 employees) whose AI discovers how work actually happens across teams and applications, structures it into a living Context Graph, and improves it continuously. Strong growth and funding to date.

Full-Time,

In-person, San Francisco, CA.

Experience: 6+ years.

Salary: $250,000-$315,000/yr.

Visa: H-1B transfers accepted; STEM OPT accepted if 2+ years remaining; O-1 not accepted as a candidate's only path

About the Role: Hiring a Staff AI Frontend Engineer who sits at the intersection of product design and frontend engineering. You are an engineer first, but with exceptional design sensibility that elevates everything you build. You will define and implement the look and feel of AI-native workflows, ensuring complex enterprise tools feel as intuitive as the best consumer apps. The product includes a real-time WebRTC-powered companion agent that follows users across their screens, generative dashboards that visualize complex enterprise context graphs, agentic chat that operates the web application directly, and a fundamentally new UI paradigm built around generative AI. You will ship at AI speeds, work directly with a tight founding team, and help define the future of the frontend SDLC.

What You'll Own

Architect scalable frontend systems: design reusable component libraries, establish patterns for state management and API integration, optimize bundle sizes, ensure the platform performs beautifully at scale
Own and ship the primary user-facing features users interact with daily, end-to-end from React components through API integration to production polish
Bridge AI capabilities with elegant user experiences: partner with product and backend engineers to expose powerful functionality while hiding technical complexity
Build complex frontend systems, including real-time WebRTC streaming for the companion agent, generative dashboards, and agentic chat that operates the product itself
Use AI tools to rapidly prototype design concepts in code, bridging gaps between teams with working demos instead of static mocks
Help define how the team scales code review and SDLC with agents that encode your architectural thinking

Requirements

Must-Have

6+ years shipping production-grade products. Senior to Staff level.
Mastery of modern web technologies: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind. You understand the performance consequences of architectural decisions and ship code that's elegant and performant.
AI-native developer. You wield Cursor, Claude Code, v0.dev, Lovable, and comparable tools as extensions of your craft. You ship multiple features per day with AI assistance.
Engineer first, designer by instinct. You discuss Server vs Client Components as fluently as you critique spacing and visual hierarchy.
High agency. You've pushed yourself outside structured environments as a founder, founding engineer, or with significant scope ownership at a real startup.
On the bleeding edge of AI tooling. You can articulate what changed in your stack in the last three months.
Comfortable talking to customers and sales. You shape product through action, not waiting for permission.
Based in SF or willing to relocate immediately. In-person 5 days a week downtown SF.

Nice-to-Have

Prior founder or founding engineer experience
Real-time WebRTC streaming or video pipeline experience
Voice AI product experienceGenerative UI or generative dashboard work
Python backend comfort for occasional cross-stack work
No CS or Engineering degree required; portfolio, GitHub, and shipping track record matter more

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