Senior Full Stack Engineer, Government

This role is on site five days a week. You can work from the Los Altos office or the San Francisco office and you will spend one or two days a week at the Los Altos office. There is occasional travel to Washington D.C.

We are helping a venture backed AI company hire a senior full stack engineer. The company builds applied AI products that use retrieval and large language models at organizational scale. This seat owns the full stack work for product that has to meet government information security standards with about 70 percent of the work on the back end.

The company is hiring for one seat.

What you will do

Own features end to end across the front end and back end with about 70 percent of your time on the back end.

Build with React and Python.

Design and ship retrieval and large language model features that hold up at organizational scale not only in a demo.

Apply your IL5 experience to engineering work that has to pass a government security bar including reviews documentation and the way the system is built.

Lead conversations with customers learn what they need and turn that into shipped product.

Travel occasionally to Washington D.C. to work with customers in person.

Work in person with the team in Los Altos or San Francisco including regular time at the Los Altos office.

What you need

5 to 10 years as a full stack engineer.

At least 1 year in a Department of Defense or US government IL5 environment. This is required.

Strong experience with React and Python.

Experience with machine learning retrieval or large language models at organizational scale.

At least one year at a startup from seed through Series B.

A bachelors degree in computer science or a STEM field.

Experience with a major cloud AI platform such as AWS Azure or GCP.

Comfort leading customer calls.

US citizenship. A government background check is required. This role cannot support visa sponsorship.

You can work on site five days a week in Los Altos or San Francisco including time at the Los Altos office and travel to Washington D.C. when needed.

Nice to have

Knowledge of DoD Cloud SRG NIST 800-53 or 171 STIGs and RMF or ATO.

What this search is not

This search is not for people who change jobs often.

This search is not a fit for long tenures in slow-moving industries such as large banks.

This search is not for pure DevOps profiles.

Location

On site five days a week in Los Altos California or San Francisco California with time at the Los Altos office.

Occasional travel to Washington D.C.

Full time direct hire role.

How to apply

Apply through this posting or book a time with our team at We accept applications on an ongoing basis until the role is filled.

Rise Talent Advisors is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome people of all backgrounds.