Interface AI
Chief Engineer (Staff Engineer)
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About the role
- This is the most senior technical track in the company - leadership through technical credibility, not headcount.
- Because AI handles the routine, everyone on the team is senior and high-leverage.
Responsibilities
- You architect and build alongside your team, you set the technical bar by doing the work, and you steer the rest of the domain through its engineers and leads.
- You run a pod directly, hold a weekly council seat alongside the founders, and partner with your Domain PM as an equal.
- This is a rare chance to own an entire domain of a profitable, category-leading AI company outright - and to shape where banking goes next.
- These are some of the areas a Chief Engineer could own:
- Architecture and build - you design the systems for your domain and you write the code; you set the technical standard by example, not from a distance.
- ๐ค Claude Enterprise + frontier AI tools for every employee - build with the best
- The team is small enough that your judgment shapes everything, and the market is large enough that what you build will matter for a long time.
Requirements
- You've owned a critical domain or system end-to-end at high scale, or at a high- velocity Series A-D startup - and you can walk through the decisions you made, and the ones you considered and rejected.
- you are not someone who stopped touching the system years ago or an "architect" who only produces diagrams.
Nice to have
- The core AI runtime and the intelligence systems. knowledge, retrieval, evaluation, and the data flywheel - that make the AI reason well and keep improving.
- The AI agents members talk to across voice and chat, and the AI-first contact center that makes employees dramatically more capable.
- The integrations and computer-use work that let agents take real action in the systems institutions run on.
- The systems that turn AI conversations into measurable outcomes, plus the operational backbone that keeps the platform fast and reliable.
- An AI-native consumer banking experience that acts on people's behalf.
- you set the technical standard by example, not from a distance.
- The technical bar - you ship, you review, and you hold the line on quality and velocity across your domain's pods.
- BS/BA in Computer Science required
Benefits
- ๐ฉบ 100% paid health, dental & vision care
- ๐ฐ 401(k) & financial wellness perks
- ๐ Commuter benefit
- ๐ช Monthly wellness stipend
- ๐ด Discretionary PTO + paid parental leave
- ๐ง Mental health, wellness & family benefits
- Founding-team-tier equity, top-of-market base, comprehensive benefits, and a modern San Francisco office worth showing up to.
Company info
- We are in production, generating real revenue, and on a mission that matters: making intelligent financial services available to the millions of people who've never had a private banker.
- Customers are live, revenue is real, and the mission is one you can explain to your family without a slide deck.
- The platform on which interface.ai http://interface.ai's own teams and its customers build and deploy agents.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
- H1B transfers welcome.
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