Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Applied AI
True Talent Solutions Partners · San Francisco · onsite
USD 200,000 to 300,000 per year
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join the product engineering team at a Series A industrial staffing and AI platform company. You will bring AI agents into real-world marketplace workflows and build the backend systems and platform that support staffing, worker matching, and operational automation.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Define how AI agents are applied across product workflows, including sourcing, vetting, matching, and placement.
- Design and lead core systems, including real-time matching and automated vetting pipelines.
- Build and maintain scalable backend services and platform architecture for evolving product needs.
- Improve system performance, reliability, and capacity while making pragmatic infrastructure decisions.
- Partner with technical and cross-functional teams to turn ambiguous problems into production-ready solutions.
- Contribute to agent harnesses, evaluation systems, orchestration patterns, and model strategy as needed.
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.
- Hands-on experience building products at fast-growing startups, including taking projects from early prototypes to production at scale.
- Strong Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js skills, with experience designing APIs, distributed systems, and data models.
- Experience with PostgreSQL and messaging or streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Experience shipping applied AI or agentic products, and familiarity with coding agents and rapid prototyping.
- Strong product judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and an ability to work across teams and with operational users.
- Relevant experience in AI, marketplaces, matching or recommendation systems, staffing, recruiting, or operational platforms is valuable.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and a record of sustained contributions in engineering roles.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
LOCATION
On-site in San Francisco, California.