Fractional AI

Fractional AI

Staff Software Engineer (NC)

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 151 days ago
LLMsDesign SystemsICD-10

About the role

  • You've shipped multiple complete products end-to-end and write elegant, production-ready code across multiple disciplines.
  • Specific interest in applying software engineering fundamentals to AI systems.

Responsibilities

  • Build agents that write, test, and deploy their own software packages?
  • We're backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.
  • Regular events to build camaraderie and a strong team spirit.
  • We design systems around testable hypotheses, curate durable data sets, and ensure what we ship keeps working long after we've handed it over.
  • The upside is constant time on the frontier of models and tooling, and a muscle for AI product development that's hard to build anywhere else.
  • 🎉 Team Events and Activities: Regular events to build camaraderie and a strong team spirit.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of engineering experience, with deep care for the craft.
  • Comfort talking with senior technical stakeholders.
  • You have outsized autonomy on each product - but you won't have a year to polish a single system.
  • 8+ years of engineering experience, with deep care for the craft. You've shipped multiple complete products end-to-end and write elegant, production-ready code across multiple disciplines.
  • Specific interest in applying software engineering fundamentals to AI systems. You care about balancing frontier model capabilities with good system design.
  • Comfort talking with senior technical stakeholders. You navigate conversations skillfully, and care about people using what you build.
  • High ownership mindset. You jump in without instruction, embrace a "no job too big, no job too small" mindset, and want to shape strategy and culture.
  • Low ego, high integrity. You help others and ask for help. You hold a high bar for honesty-with yourself and your team.
  • We have a distinct approach to building AI systems: applying standard software engineering discipline to the non-deterministic world of frontier AI. We design systems around testable hypotheses, curate durable data sets, and ensure what we ship keeps working long after we've handed it over.
  • After shipping 30+ AI products, we have strong opinions on what makes AI products succeed and how to get them into production. We think you'll find it refreshing if you've seen how most companies approach AI.
  • A typical engineer here ships two to three products per year and learns from dozens more. You have outsized autonomy on each product - but you won't have a year to polish a single system. The upside is constant time on the frontier of models and tooling, and a muscle for AI product development that's hard to build anywhere else.
  • Most engineers look back at this as the biggest growth period of their career. But it's possible you won't like it - we recommend using the interview process to hear what our engineers think.
  • Overdeliver: We are writing the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and building our reputation as the world's best applied AI team.

Compensation

  • A typical engineer here ships two to three products per year and learns from dozens more.
  • 🏦 Competitive Compensation Package: Attractive salary aligned with your experience and skills.

Benefits

  • 🏥 Life Insurance: Providing peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
  • 📈 401k with Matching: Invest in your future with our company-matched retirement plan.
  • 🌴 Unlimited PTO: Take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate.
  • 🏥 Exceptional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive health benefits to keep you and your family healthy.
  • 🚑 Health FSA: Manage out-of-pocket health expenses effectively.
  • 🚌 Commuter Benefits: Make your travel to work easier and more affordable.
  • How do you turn a decades-old dataset into an industry-leading medical coding agent?

Company info

  • We are writing the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and building our reputation as the world's best applied AI team.
  • We're building a culture that attracts and retains top applied AI talent, and we stress test large decisions through the perspective of our world class builders.
  • Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC
  • To make this possible, we are religious about being the best company in the world to learn Applied AI engineering practices.
  • We are a team of experienced builders who care deeply about getting complex AI systems into production, with strong conviction about what makes them succeed.

This listing is sourced directly from Fractional AI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.