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🚀 Staff Engineer / Principal Engineer (Agentic AI / TypeScript) – Member of Technical Staff
📍 SF | 💰 $200K–$300K Equity | 🩺 Exenstive Medical & Dental Cover | 🌴 Unlimited PTO
We’re partnered with a well-funded AI automation company ($10M raised at Seed, close to Series A) building intelligent agents for complex, real-world workflows. They have a team of MIT Alumni and engineers from global brands such as Meta, Microsoft & Amazon.
As the platform scales, they’re looking for a senior engineer with strong architectural judgment and real-world AI systems experience. This is a Staff / Principal-level role with meaningful ownership over product and AI architecture.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and technical direction across AI and platform systems
- Evaluate product, architectural and model-level options before committing
- Design and build scalable systems using TypeScript, Node, Nest/Express, React, Next
- Work on: APIs, SDKs and no-code automation tools
- Build and operate AI systems: Prompts, evaluations, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows
- Full Infra & Distributed systems: Event (Pipelines, Streaming, Queues), Workflows, Durable Execution, Data Pipelines
- Drive quality through design docs, reviews, and prior art research
- Mentor engineers and improve team-wide architectural decision-making
Requirements
- Staff / Principal-level engineer with a track record of leading complex systems
- Deep TypeScript experience across backend and frontend
- Experience building production AI systems (prompts, evals, RAG, agents)
- Strong system design breadth with sound trade-off judgment
- Reliable, thoughtful collaborator who elevates team decisions
Why Join
- Real architectural authority and long-term technical ownership
- Direct collaboration with technical founders
- High compensation, meaningful equity, and high-impact problems
TL;DR: If you enjoy designing AI systems, making sound architectural decisions, and helping teams build better software, this role is for you.
Salary : $200,000 - $300,000