Software Engineer

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Software Engineer, AI Agents

Location - San Francisco Bay Area

(Remote – Preference for Candidates Located in the Bay Area)

Compensation

$200,000 – $320,000 Base + Competitive Equity

Visa

Visa Sponsorship Available

(Open to Most Visa Types)

Company Stage

Series C ($92M Raised, $1.2B Valuation)

Industry

Artificial Intelligence, AI Agents, Data Infrastructure, Marketing Technology, Customer Data Platforms, Enterprise SaaS, Applied AI

About the Company

The company is building the future of AI-powered customer engagement by enabling businesses to transform their customer data into intelligent, personalized actions.

Its platform helps organizations activate customer data across hundreds of business tools while allowing both technical and non-technical users to create highly personalized marketing experiences using modern data infrastructure and AI. By combining composable customer data infrastructure with intelligent decisioning systems, the company is redefining how businesses leverage data to drive customer engagement.

Backed by leading investors including Sapphire Ventures, Amplify Partners, and Y Combinator, the company has raised over $92M in funding at a $1.2B valuation and continues to expand its AI platform through cutting-edge agentic products.

As a Software Engineer, AI Agents, you'll help build the next generation of AI-powered decisioning systems that combine large language models, product engineering, data infrastructure, and intelligent automation. You'll work directly with company leadership to define AI architecture, prototype new product experiences, and build production-grade AI agents used by enterprise customers.

This is a rare opportunity to join a fast-growing AI company where you'll own major product initiatives, influence AI strategy, and build intelligent systems that shape the future of customer engagement and enterprise software.

What You'll Do

Design and build production-ready AI agents that help businesses automate customer engagement and marketing workflows

Prototype and rapidly iterate AI-powered product experiences using modern LLMs and AI frameworks

Build scalable backend systems supporting AI-powered decision making and intelligent automation

Develop production-grade LLM pipelines capable of solving complex customer problems

Build AI agents that analyze customer data, generate insights, and recommend business actions

Work directly with the CTO and COO to prototype new AI product lines from concept through production

Evaluate emerging AI models, frameworks, and methodologies to determine the best production architectures

Design scalable backend services supporting AI workflows and enterprise customer data

Build highly reliable production systems capable of serving enterprise-scale workloads

Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Design to create intuitive AI-assisted user experiences

Make key technical decisions around AI architecture, backend systems, and product direction

Improve engineering quality, scalability, performance, and reliability across AI products

Ideal Candidate Background

Experience Requirements

5–12 years of software engineering experience

Experience building core product features at high-growth VC-backed startups

Experience shipping AI-powered production products from concept through launch

Experience working in Series C–F startup environments or similarly fast-growing companies

Experience building products with significant customer and business impact

Demonstrated progression in ownership, technical scope, or engineering leadership

Experience working as an early engineering hire or startup founder preferred

Strong product mindset with demonstrated ability to build 0→1 products

Technical Requirements

Strong backend software engineering experience

Experience building complex AI applications beyond simple RAG implementations

Experience architecting production AI systems and LLM-powered applications

Strong proficiency with TypeScript and modern backend development

Experience designing scalable distributed backend systems

Experience rapidly prototyping AI-powered products

Strong understanding of LLM architectures, prompting strategies, tool calling, and AI workflows

Experience evaluating AI models and selecting appropriate production architectures

Strong understanding of APIs, data infrastructure, and scalable backend services

Ability to design production systems balancing reliability, scalability, latency, and cost

Strong engineering fundamentals across system design, architecture, and software quality

Education

Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field preferred

Degree from a top engineering university strongly preferred

Coursework or practical experience in Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning is a plus

Soft Skills

Strong communication skills

Excellent product intuition

High ownership mentality

Strong customer empathy

Comfortable operating with ambiguity

Highly intellectually curious

Structured problem solver

Self-directed and proactive

Strong collaboration across Product, Engineering, and Leadership

Comfortable rapidly learning new technologies

Passion for AI and building customer-facing products

Compensation & Benefits

Base Salary: $200,000 – $320,000

Competitive Equity Package

Remote-First Environment

Preference for Bay Area candidates for occasional in-person collaboration

Visa Sponsorship Available

Opportunity to define the future of AI-powered customer engagement

Direct collaboration with the CTO and executive leadership

High-impact ownership across AI strategy and product development

Work on frontier LLM applications and AI agent systems

Opportunity to influence major product lines

High-performance engineering culture

Rapid career growth opportunities

Why Join

This is an opportunity to build one of the most ambitious AI agent platforms in enterprise software.

You'll work at the intersection of AI, product engineering, data infrastructure, and customer intelligence while building production AI systems that help businesses make better decisions through intelligent automation.

As a Software Engineer, AI Agents, you'll own critical AI initiatives from research through production, collaborate directly with executive leadership, and shape the future of AI-powered enterprise applications.