Emergence Capital Partners
Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI
San Francisco · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 212 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonFull-Stack DevelopmentVector DatabasesMachine LearningNLPLLMsRAGProduct ManagementResearchCommunication
About the role
- Applied AI product engineering is a new discipline.
- You'll work directly with customers to understand their workflows and translate that understanding into product decisions.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship AI-powered product features from concept through production deployment
- Develop and maintain LLM-based systems including RAG pipelines, agents, and workflow automation
- Build evaluation frameworks and monitoring systems to ensure AI quality and reliability
- Collaborate with product and design to define roadmap and prioritize features based on impact
- Optimize system performance, cost, and latency as usage scales
- Experience building and maintaining production systems with high reliability requirements
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in Python
- experience with TypeScript/JavaScript for full-stack development
- Hands-on experience with LLMs in production: prompt engineering, RAG systems, fine-tuning, or agent frameworks
- Strong product intuition, ability to translate ambiguous user needs into concrete technical solutions
- 4+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 1-2 years building AI/ML-powered products
- Strong proficiency in Python; experience with TypeScript/JavaScript for full-stack development
Nice to have
- Experience with AI infrastructure: LangChain, LlamaIndex, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma)
- Background in NLP, information retrieval, or search systems
- Previous startup experience, especially as an early engineer or technical co-founder
- Contributions to open-source AI/ML projects
Skills
- The best candidates combine deep technical skills with strong product intuition and a relentless focus on user outcomes.
Company info
- We're building AI products that solve real problems for real customers.
- Work directly with customers to understand problems, gather feedback, and validate solutions
- We're building AI products that solve real problems for real customers. This role sits at the intersection of product and engineering- you'll own features end-to-end, from understanding user problems to shipping production code that scales.
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