Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform

FDE Times; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

FDE Times is building a shared AI platform to support agent infrastructure, context management, model integration, and routing. You will help scale multi-model AI systems and partner with product teams to ship AI-powered features.

You will lead technical initiatives across teams, design robust memory/session state architectures, and help define evaluation frameworks to improve AI quality and reliability across deployments.

Skills

Backend Systems

AI/ML Engineering

Technical Leadership

Multi-Model AI Systems

Model Integration

Model Routing

Context Management

Session State

Memory Systems

Evaluation Frameworks

Agentic AI

Distributed Systems

Platform Engineering

SDK Development

Developer Tooling

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Job description

Build shared AI platform systems and abstractions for agent infrastructure, context management, model integration and routing, and evaluation. Partner with product teams to improve AI quality, integrate emerging AI capabilities, and enable teams to ship AI-powered products.

Requirements:

Requires 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including at least one year focused on AI/ML engineering, and a record of technical leadership across teams. Candidates should have production experience with multi-model AI systems and experience building adopted internal platforms or shared infrastructure; familiarity with context or memory systems is also expected.

Key Skills:

Backend Systems, AI/ML Engineering, Technical Leadership, Multi-Model AI Systems, Model Integration, Model Routing, Context Management, Session State, Memory Systems, Evaluation Frameworks, Agentic AI, Distributed Systems, Platform Engineering, SDK Development, Developer Tooling, Cross-Functional Collaboration