Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform
Palo Alto, California, United States Hybrid
$265,000–$351,190 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer specializing in agentic applications, you will be the preeminent technical authority for our GenAI platform, setting architecture and strategy that spans multiple engineering organizations and shapes the company's long-term technology roadmap. You will lead the enterprise-wide integration of LLMs across our internal and customer-facing application portfolio. Your focus will be on driving cognitive automation at scale, transforming how the organization approaches decision-making and workflow automation, and establishing the engineering standards that define resilient, scalable, and observable distributed systems company-wide. You will operate as a force multiplier — influencing technical direction well beyond your immediate team and acting as a key partner to senior leadership in shaping the future of the platform.
What you'll bring
- Advanced Degree
- : Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
- Proven Experience
- : 15+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, with deep expertise in designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
- Extensive, hands-on experience architecting and deploying complex agentic applications leveraging LLMs in production at enterprise scale.
- Strong Technical Skills
- Deep proficiency in Python or similar languages, along with expert-level knowledge of cloud and container frameworks such as AWS and Kubernetes.
- A proven track record of architecting highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and observable distributed systems used across an entire organization.
- Deep Understanding
- : Expert-level, authoritative grasp of machine learning principles, algorithms, and evaluation metrics, as well as software engineering best practices for distributed systems at scale.
- Production Experience
- : Demonstrated success owning the design, deployment, and operation of mission-critical backend software in high-stakes production environments at company-wide organizational scale.