Staff AI-Native Engineer

Vertice Labs; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy and trust

High-caliber clients

Fast feedback loops

Job summary

Vertice Labs in the United States is seeking a Staff AI-Native Engineer who can architect and deliver production-grade applications using advanced AI. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in full-stack development, work fluently with AI tools, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

The role offers autonomy, flexibility, and the chance to tackle high-caliber challenges with innovative clients. If you are an elite engineer ready to push the limits of AI engineering, we want to hear from you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on AI.
• Proven track record in building production-grade applications.
• Experience with LLMs, RAG pipelines, or autonomous agents.

Responsibilities

• Architect AI-native systems that integrate traditional code and agent workflows.
• Lead product delivery from kickoff to deployment.
• Collaborate directly with clients and product teams without bureaucracy.

Skills

Full-stack development

AI tools usage

Infrastructure knowledge (AWS, Azure)

Collaboration with product teams

Tools

Terraform

React

Next.js

Job description

We’re not looking for a typical software engineer.

We’re looking for a super soldier.

Vertice Labs builds mission-critical AI products for fast-moving startups and mid-market companies. We’re a small, elite team that solves real-world problems with advanced AI and full-stack precision — and we move fast.

We’re hiring a Staff AI-Native Engineer to lead builds, architect solutions, and deliver production-grade applications at speed — with the support of AI copilots, multi-agent workflows, and infrastructure automation.

This is not a role for someone just learning to prompt ChatGPT or Cursor. This is for someone who has fully embraced AI — using tools like Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others heavily throughout the day. You’re constantly experimenting with the rapid advancements in AI, riding the wave of new releases, and folding them into how you build software.

About You

• You’re a full-stack 10xer who can go from system architecture to UI polish without breaking stride.
• You’ve built and shipped real products powered by LLMs, RAG pipelines, or autonomous agents.
• You run multiple coding agents in parallel (Cursor, Claude, Codex) — and you know how to manage them.
• You know when to prompt, when to code, and when to simplify the entire system.
• You’re fluent in infrastructure — AWS, Azure, Serverless, Terraform — not just the application layer.
• You’ve been the technical backbone of fast-moving product teams — and you love the pressure.

You Should Be Able To

• Architect AI-native systems that blend traditional code and agent workflows
• Build out backend APIs, frontends (React/Next), and cloud-native infrastructure
• Lead product delivery from kickoff to deployment
• Work with embeddings, vector stores, and hybrid retrieval techniques
• Build or orchestrate agents to automate real engineering tasks
• Collaborate directly with clients and product teams — no layers of bureaucracy

Bonus Points If

• You’ve led or contributed to open-source agent frameworks
• You’ve built internal tools that others at your company used daily
• You can debug a RAG pipeline, a flaky UI, and an Azure permission issue — in the same hour

What We Offer

• Work with a team that sets a very high bar
• Direct access to hard problems and high-caliber clients
• Autonomy, clarity, and trust — no micromanagement
• Flexible structure, meaningful problems, and fast feedback loops
• The opportunity to push what’s possible in AI-augmented engineering

This isn’t for everyone.

But if you’re an elite engineer who wants to work at the frontier, we want to hear from you.