Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Applied AI and Agents

True Talent Solutions Partners; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

True Talent Solutions Partners in San Francisco, CA, is hiring an experienced software engineer to help build applied AI products for a staffing marketplace serving industrial and operations-focused businesses.

You will connect AI agents to core workflows and shape the backend platform, agent architecture, and systems powering matching, vetting, and workforce operations. This role emphasizes end-to-end product ownership in a startup environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering for senior roles or 7+ years for staff with end-to-end ownership.
• Experience shipping products in a fast-growing startup with high velocity amid ambiguity.
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js skills; design of distributed systems, APIs and data models.
• Experience building and operating production AI agent systems and evaluating prompts, retrieval, and orchestration.
• Strong product judgment with applied AI, marketplaces, or operational workflows.
• Comfort using coding agents to turn ambiguous problems into working prototypes.
• Strong technical fundamentals and a history of sustained roles.

Responsibilities

• Apply frontier models and agents to automate sourcing, vetting, matching, and worker placement workflows.
• Build and evolve agent harnesses, evaluations, orchestration patterns, and model integrations.
• Architect core backend services and platform systems including matching and vetting pipelines.
• Improve system performance, reliability, and scalability across APIs, data models, and distributed services.
• Make architectural decisions with a long-term view while adapting priorities to needs.
• Collaborate across teams and with customers to translate problems into production-ready systems.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL

Messaging systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ)

AI agent systems

Product ownership

Senior/Staff level experience

Startup experience

Ambiguity handling

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

About the Role

Join an early-stage team building applied AI products for a staffing marketplace serving industrial and operations-focused businesses. You will connect AI agents to core product workflows and help shape the backend platform, agent architecture, and systems that power matching, vetting, and workforce operations.

What You'll Do

• Apply frontier models and existing agents to automate sourcing, vetting, matching, and worker placement workflows.

• Build and evolve agent harnesses, evaluations, orchestration patterns, and model integrations.

• Architect core backend services and platform systems, including matching and autonomous vetting pipelines.

• Improve system performance, reliability, and scalability across APIs, data models, and distributed services.

• Make architectural decisions with a long-term view while adapting priorities to emerging product and infrastructure needs.

• Work across teams and with customers to translate operational problems into practical, production-ready systems.

What We're Looking For

• Typically 5 or more years of software engineering experience for Senior roles, or 7 or more years for Staff roles, including end-to-end product ownership in early-stage teams.

• Hands-on experience shipping products at a fast-growing startup, with a record of delivering at high velocity amid ambiguity and cross-functional challenges.

• Strong Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js skills, plus experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and data models. PostgreSQL and messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ are relevant.

• Experience building and operating production AI agent systems, including decisions about prompting, retrieval, fine-tuning, code, orchestration, and evaluation.

• Strong product judgment and experience with applied AI, marketplaces, matching or recommendation systems, or operational workflows.

• Comfort using coding agents in day-to-day development and turning ambiguous problems into working prototypes.

• Strong technical fundamentals and a history of sustained roles rather than frequent short stints.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California.