Staff AI Engineer
Listed on 2026-07-31
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Software Development
AI Engineer (Applied/Software)
I’m supporting one of the fastest-growing applied AI companies in San Francisco as they hire a Staff AI Engineer for their Agent Team.
The company is building production AI agents for the insurance industry, replacing complex manual workflows across carriers, brokers and enterprise businesses.
They have:- Raised more than $30M from a16z, Y Combinator, Nexus and South Park Commons
- Grown rapidly over the past 12 months
- Signed top-10 insurance carriers and brokers
- Deployed with Fortune 100 and public companies
- Built a deeply technical team with experience from Apple AI Research, Brex, Coinbase, Uber and multiple YC startups
This is not a model-training or research role.
You’ll be building the systems above the foundation models that make agents reliable in production.
What You’ll Own- End-to-end evaluation systems for agent performance
- Agent orchestration across long-running workflows
- Tools and MCP servers connecting agents to enterprise systems
- Context, memory and reasoning strategies
- Multi-agent systems and feedback-driven improvement loops
- Production reliability, observability and failure recovery
- Experiments that turn emerging AI research into product capabilities
Both founders are engineers, and engineers have a genuine say in product direction.
This is a hands-on Staff role for someone who wants to set technical direction, make meaningful architecture decisions and help define how a category-leading company builds agents.
The Ideal Background- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- 3+ years building in AI or machine learning
- Strong Python and backend engineering fundamentals
- Recent experience shipping production LLM or agent systems
- Ownership of architecture beyond individual features
- Experience with evals, orchestration, tool use, context engineering or agent reliability
- Strong communication and product judgement
- Comfortable working at speed in an ambitious, on-site environment
Previous startup, early engineering or founder experience would be particularly valuable.
Insurance experience is not required.
Compensation:$300K-$400K base + meaningful equity
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