Staff AI Engineer - Generative AI Leader (Hybrid TX)

DroneDeploy, Inc.

Austin (TX)

Hybrid

USD 169,000 - 232,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Procore seeks a Staff Software Engineer - AI to join its Data and AI organization in Austin, TX. You will design and build production-grade AI capabilities to help construction professionals find information, make decisions, and complete work, providing technical leadership and turning advances in generative AI into secure, reliable customer experiences.

You will partner with product, design, data science, and software engineers to define technical strategy and deliver AI-powered features from

Qualifications

8+ years of software engineering experience.
2+ years building and operating production AI/ML systems.
Strong knowledge of generative AI, LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic systems.
Design distributed, cloud-native architectures using modern engineering practices.

Responsibilities

Define the technical strategy and architecture for scalable, secure AI-powered products.
Lead the design and delivery of production-grade generative AI, agentic, retrieval, and evaluation systems.
Partner with product, design, data science, and engineering teams to translate customer needs into AI solutions.
Establish engineering standards for AI quality, observability, security, privacy, and responsible use.
Evaluate emerging AI models and techniques through experiments and measurement.
Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance across teams.