Senior Staff AI Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Staff AI Engineer (AI): Building and improving AI agents that automate complex mechanical engineering workflows with an accent on agent architecture, tool use, and orchestration. Focus on designing evaluation frameworks for workflow completion and shipping production systems for enterprise customers.

Location: San Francisco, CA, United States

Salary: $180,000–$230,000 base + equity

Company

A fast-growing AI startup building intelligent agents to automate complex mechanical engineering workflows.

What you will do

• Build and improve AI agents that execute multi-step engineering workflows.
• Own agent architecture, tool use, orchestration, context management, and reliability.
• Design evaluation frameworks focused on workflow completion and token efficiency.
• Collaborate directly with users to map real-world workflows into agent capabilities.
• Lead a small AI engineering team while remaining hands-on technically.
• Ship production systems used by enterprise customers.

Requirements

• Strong experience building agentic AI systems in production.
• Deep understanding of LLM orchestration, tool calling, and multi-step agents.
• Strong Python engineering skills and experience with modern LLM tooling.
• Experience leading technical direction or mentoring engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on real-world agentic AI utilized by Fortune 100 companies.
• Collaborate with a high-caliber team from Google Brain, Airbnb, Stanford, and CMU.
• Competitive base salary with meaningful equity.