Staff AI Native Engineer — Lead Frontier AI Products

Relevance AI; United States; Hybrid; USD 127,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP – Employee Stock Ownership Plan

AI Productivity Benefit – Get up to $1

Parental Leave – 12 weeks

Milestone Merch

Food, Drinks & Community

Quarterly Team Events

Social Clubs

Sonder EAP

Job summary

Relevance AI in Sydney, Australia, is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead AI‑native development and set the technical direction for our frontier capabilities. You will mentor teams, drive reliability, and solve high‑leverage problems that shape how customers deploy autonomous agents in real work.

This role sits at the core of product building with access to cutting‑edge frontier models and collaboration with customer teams to turn ideas into shipped products.

Qualifications

• You operate at the frontier of what is possible with coding agents.
• You think like a product owner and care about customer outcomes.
• You bring depth in backend, APIs, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction on load‑bearing decisions for frontier AI products.
• Deploy onto hardest problems and ship fast.
• Raise the bar on AI‑native engineering practices across teams.
• Own challenging autonomous agents projects in production.
• Collaborate with product, design, and customer teams to ship outcomes.
• Mentor engineers to multiply impact.

Skills

AI‑Native Building

Product Thinking

Deep Engineering Craft

Cross‑Team Leverage

Delivery speed

Mission alignment

Tools

React

Vue.js

Node.js

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

Relevance AI in Sydney, Australia, is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead AI‑native development and set the technical direction for our frontier capabilities. You will mentor teams, drive reliability, and solve high‑leverage problems that shape how customers deploy autonomous agents in real work.

This role sits at the core of product building with access to cutting‑edge frontier models and collaboration with customer teams to turn ideas into shipped products.