Staff / Principal Full Stack AI Engineer

BrightHire; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote in the United States

Small autonomous squads

Fast CI / one-click deploys

Flexible time off

Job summary

BrightHire is seeking a Staff/Principal engineer to shape the technical direction of customer-facing AI features for an interview intelligence platform. Lead end-to-end delivery from prototypes to production, including prompt engineering and evaluation infrastructure, back-end systems, data models, and product surfaces.

You will collaborate closely with Product and Design in a small autonomous squad, bringing deep production AI experience, full-stack fluency, and strong customer-centric judgment

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing, building, and shipping generative AI applications end-to-end.
• Deep familiarity with prompt engineering, evals, retrieval, and LLM workflows.
• Strong full-stack engineering skills, especially in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience with SQL and unstructured text such as transcripts and documents.
• Ability to reason from the customer's perspective and move fast.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of customer-facing AI features from early prototypes through production launch
• Design prompt chains, retrieval flows, evaluation harnesses, and quality feedback loops across the platform
• Build backend services, APIs, data models, and product surfaces that support AI-powered workflows
• Work across structured and unstructured data including transcripts, job descriptions, interview notes, and customer configurations
• Evaluate AI output for accuracy, usefulness, tone, safety, latency, and customer fit
• Set technical direction across areas such as voice-driven interviewers, automatic coaching, candidate skills matrices, and conversational assistants
• Make pragmatic technical decisions balancing speed, reliability, and product quality

Skills

Generative AI

Full-stack

Python

JavaScript

TypeScript

Prompt engineering

Tools

Python

JavaScript

TypeScript

Vector search

Job description

Role overview

A Staff or Principal-level engineering role shaping the technical direction of customer-facing AI features for an interview intelligence platform. The position leads end-to-end delivery from prototypes and prompt experimentation through evaluation infrastructure, backend systems, data modeling, and polished product surfaces, partnering closely with Product and Design on a small autonomous squad. Candidates bring deep production AI experience, full-stack fluency, and the judgment to turn ambiguous AI ideas into reliable capabilities that customers use every day.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of customer-facing AI features from early prototypes through production launch
• Design prompt chains, retrieval flows, evaluation harnesses, and quality feedback loops across the platform
• Build backend services, APIs, data models, and product surfaces that support AI-powered workflows
• Work across structured and unstructured data including transcripts, job descriptions, interview notes, and customer configurations
• Evaluate AI output for accuracy, usefulness, tone, safety, latency, and customer fit
• Set technical direction across areas such as voice-driven interviewers, automatic coaching, candidate skills matrices, and conversational assistants
• Make pragmatic technical decisions balancing speed, reliability, and product quality

Requirements

• Significant experience designing, building, and shipping generative AI applications end-to-end
• Deep familiarity with prompt engineering, prompt chains, evals, retrieval and vector search, and LLM workflows
• Strong full-stack engineering skills, especially in Python and JavaScript or TypeScript
• Comfort designing backend logic, data models, APIs, and system architecture at scale
• Experience working with both SQL-style structured data and unstructured text such as transcripts and documents
• Strong product instincts and the ability to reason from the customer's perspective
• Track record of moving quickly and independently while knowing when to collaborate or pull others in

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote within the United States
• Small autonomous squads with the flexibility to lead initiatives or focus as an individual contributor
• Engineering experience built for speed, including fast CI under ten minutes, one-click deploys, and strong observability
• Regular working hours, no-meeting Wednesdays, and flexible time off to recharge