Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Applied AI

ABOUT THE ROLE Join the applied AI team at a Series A/B industrial workforce technology company to bring AI agents into its staffing marketplace and build the backend platform that supports it. This senior, hands-on role spans product engineering, distributed systems, and production AI, with the opportunity to shape core architecture. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Apply AI agents and frontier models to automate sourcing, worker vetting, matching, and placement workflows. - Design and lead core backend systems, including real-time matching and AI-enabled vetting pipelines. - Build and maintain scalable platform services, APIs, data models, and deployment infrastructure. - Improve system performance, reliability, and capacity as product needs evolve. - Partner across engineering and product to make architectural decisions and deliver practical solutions for operational users. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Typically 5 or more years of software engineering experience for Senior roles, or 7 or more years for Staff roles, with end-to-end product ownership. - Strong Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js skills, including experience with APIs, distributed systems, data modeling, and PostgreSQL; familiarity with Kafka or RabbitMQ is relevant. - Experience shipping AI or agentic products to production, and using coding agents and AI-assisted development tools. - Background building products in a fast-growing startup or early-stage environment, with demonstrated results and comfort operating amid ambiguity. - Strong product judgment and experience working across functions on scalable systems, ideally in applied AI, marketplaces, matching, recruiting, logistics, or other operationally complex domains. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site in San Francisco, California.