Staff AI Engineer / High Growth Startup / Fully Remote

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote (US-based)

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

401k Plan

Open PTO and Sick Days

Bi-Annual in-person meetings (Travel)

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC is seeking a Staff AI Engineer for a fast-growing B2B SaaS company in property management. This is a full-time, 100% remote opportunity for candidates anywhere in the US, with AI-native development workflows and agentic coding tools to transform the software lifecycle.

You will design scalable AI platform components, lead end-to-end experiments, and contribute to code quality.

Qualifications

• Proven staff-level engineer with deep software architecture experience.
• Hands-on with AI coding agents integrated into daily development and debugging processes.
• Strong system design instincts and pragmatic approach for ambiguous environments.
• Deep experience with CI/CD, PRs, debugging, alerting, and deployment strategies.
• History of rapid prototyping and running learning loops to ship products.
• Autonomous work style with proactive blockers-raising to maintain momentum.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI-native platform components (workflow orchestration, agent infrastructure, third-party integrations).
• Oversee end-to-end experimentation loops from hypothesis to measurement.
• Review code, refactor, and maintain AI development loop quality.
• Hands-on engineering to build and ship core platform components.
• Lead experimentation ownership and lightweight technical planning.
• Collaborate across teams with async communication.

Skills

Staff-level experience

Software architecture

AI coding agents

CI/CD

Prototyping / learning loops

Autonomy / blockers

Tools

Claude Code

Gemini

Job description

A fast-growing B2B SaaS company operating in the property management space is rethinking how software gets built from the ground up. This is a full-time, 100% remote opportunity for a Staff AI Engineer to join a small, high-velocity team that is using AI-native development workflows and agentic coding tools to transform the software development lifecycle. This role is open to candidates anywhere in the US.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven track record as a staff-level engineer with deep experience in software architecture and product development workflows
• Genuine enthusiasm for and hands-on experience with AI coding agents integrated into daily development and debugging processes
• Strong system design instincts combined with a pragmatic approach, comfortable building quickly in ambiguous environments
• Deep practical experience with modern engineering workflows including CI/CD pipelines, pull requests, debugging, alerting, and deployment strategies
• Demonstrated history of rapid prototyping, running learning loops, and taking ambiguous problem spaces to functional shipped products
• Ability to operate with high autonomy, raise blockers proactively, and maintain momentum without step-by-step direction

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience with workflow orchestration and sandboxed execution environments for AI agents
• Familiarity with AI coding platforms such as Claude Code, Gemini, or similar tools
• Background in building and maintaining opinionated codebases with solid abstractions optimized for AI-assisted development
• Experience driving end-to-end experimentation loops including hypothesis, build, measure, and iteration cycles

What You Will Be Doing

Tech Breakdown

• 50% AI-Native Platform Development (Workflow Orchestration, Agent Infrastructure, Third-Party Integrations)
• 30% End-to-End Experimentation and Rapid Learning Loops
• 20% Code Review, Refactoring, and Maintaining AI Dev Loop Quality

Daily Responsibilities

• 50% Hands-On Engineering (Building and Shipping Core Platform Components)
• 25% Experimentation Ownership (Hypothesis through Measurement)
• 15% Technical Planning and Lightweight Documentation
• 10% Cross-Team Collaboration and Async Communication

The Offer

• Competitive Salary
• Bonus Eligible
• Fully Remote (US Based)

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• 401k Plan
• Open PTO and Sick Days
• Bi-Annual In-Person Company Meetings (Travel Reimbursed)

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.