Senior Staff Engineer: Cross‑Team AI & Platform Impact

Plaud; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 200.000 - 320.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

ESOP

High-impact work

AI tools access

Top-spec laptops

Annual offsites

Descripción de la vacante

Plaud Inc. in San Francisco seeks a Senior IC to rotate across product, platform and infrastructure teams, tackling the hardest engineering problems.

You will write production Go/Python code, design cross-team APIs, and mentor engineers globally in a fast-moving, ESOP-enabled environment. Join a team driving state-of-the-art AI tools, multi-team collaboration, and scalable systems across devices, mobile clients, and cloud-native services.

Formación

• 10+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years at staff level or equivalent.
• Expertise across multiple areas (backend, mobile, data pipelines, ML/LLM) and ability to ramp on unfamiliar code.
• Proven track record leading cross-team work with design docs and migrations.
• Strong Go or Python, plus a client stack (iOS/Android/React/Electron), and cloud-native experience (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes).
• Experience shipping LLM features in production with retrieval, prompt pipelines, evals, latency and cost management.
• Excellent written communication and comfort across time zones/cultures.
• Low ego and high ownership; able to make the team shine.
• Open-source contributions or talks a plus.
• Routinely uses AI tools; able to demo usage from the last two weeks.

Responsabilidades

• Rotate across product, platform and infrastructure teams to tackle the hardest problems.
• Deeply collaborate on migrations, reliability, CI, and AI quality gaps and ship fixes.
• Write production code and participate in designs across teams.
• Lead cross-team designs for APIs and data contracts.
• Raise engineering standards: testing, observability, runbooks, CI/CD.
• Develop end-to-end understanding of the system and guide architecture decisions.
• Mentor senior engineers in US and Asia.
• Advance AI-native engineering practices.

Conocimientos

Go or Python

Mobile stack

Cloud/Kubernetes

LLM deployments

Cross-team leadership

Excellent communication

Herramientas

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

GitHub

Descripción del empleo

Plaud Inc. in San Francisco seeks a Senior IC to rotate across product, platform and infrastructure teams, tackling the hardest engineering problems.

You will write production Go/Python code, design cross-team APIs, and mentor engineers globally in a fast-moving, ESOP-enabled environment. Join a team driving state-of-the-art AI tools, multi-team collaboration, and scalable systems across devices, mobile clients, and cloud-native services.