Staff AI Engineer: AI Product & Systems Leader

People in AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

People in AI, based in San Francisco, is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to set the technical direction and build the systems behind AI-enabled workflows as part of a growing enterprise software platform. You will own retrieval, embeddings, and RAG pipelines, influence architecture, and lead design discussions with product leadership while delivering production-grade AI features.

This role emphasizes security, accuracy, cost, and reliability, with equity included as part of the compensation package

Qualifications

• Experience building production software with strong backend architecture.
• Proven track record deploying LLM-powered features.
• Strong Python and distributed systems skills.
• Experience with security, reliability and customer trust.
• Evidence of Staff-level ownership and leadership on complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Build customer-facing AI features within an established software platform.
• Own retrieval and context pipelines for LLM-powered systems.
• Shape AI architecture and reusable backend services.
• Define evaluation metrics, create test datasets, and build feedback loops.

Skills

Backend engineering

System design

Python

LLM features

RAG

Embeddings

Vector databases

Production software

Leadership

Job description

People in AI, based in San Francisco, is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to set the technical direction and build the systems behind AI-enabled workflows as part of a growing enterprise software platform. You will own retrieval, embeddings, and RAG pipelines, influence architecture, and lead design discussions with product leadership while delivering production-grade AI features.

This role emphasizes security, accuracy, cost, and reliability, with equity included as part of the compensation package