Senior Staff AI Frontend Engineer

Thomas Talent Network; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 315,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in addition to cash

100% employer-paid medical, dental,视觉

Parental leave

$500 annual learning fund

$100 monthly wellness fund

401k via Betterment

Relocation support to San Francisco

Pre-tax parking and transit

Daily meals at office

Free snacks and drinks

Free onsite gym

Secure bike room

Job summary

Confidential client, a Series B enterprise AI company, seeks a Staff AI Frontend Engineer in San Francisco, CA. You are an engineer first with strong design sense, shaping AI-native workflows and intuitive enterprise tools.

You will collaborate with a tight founding team to define frontend SDLC and deliver real-time features like WebRTC streaming and agentic interfaces.

Qualifications

• 6+ years shipping production-grade products.
• Senior to Staff level experience.
• Expertise with React, Next.js, TypeScript and Tailwind.
• Experience using AI tooling such as Cursor, Claude Code, v0.dev, Lovable.

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable frontend systems: reusable component libraries, state management patterns, API integration, performance optimization.
• Own front-end features end-to-end from React components to production polish.
• Bridge AI capabilities with user-friendly UX by collaborating with product and backend engineers.
• Build real-time frontend systems including WebRTC streaming for the companion agent and generative dashboards.
• Prototype design concepts in code using AI tools for rapid demos across teams.
• Shape how the team scales code review and SDLC with agent-assisted architecture.

Skills

Senior frontend

React ecosystem

Web performance

AI tooling familiarity

Server vs Client Components

Tools

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Tailwind

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

1. 6+ years shipping production-grade products. Senior to Staff level.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Engineer first, designer by instinct. You discuss Server vs Client Components as fluently as you critique spacing and visual hierarchy.
5. High agency. You've pushed yourself outside structured environments as a founder, founding engineer, or with significant scope ownership at a real startup.
6. On the bleeding edge of AI tooling. You can articulate what changed in your stack in the last three months.
7. Comfortable talking to customers and sales. You shape product through action, not waiting for permission.
8. 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 experience
• Generative 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

Benefits & Perks
Equity in addition to competitive cash compensation
100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision options
Paid parental leave
$500 annual learning fund
$100 monthly wellness fund
401k via Betterment
Relocation support to San Francisco Bay Area
Pre-tax parking and transit account
Daily curated local meals delivered to office
Free snacks and drinks
Free onsite gym access
Secure bike room