Senior Staff / Principal Engineer - AI Systems Platform
$250k - $280kXpertalent
Job Description
Job Description
Staff / Principal Founding Engineer (Backend-Leaning) – AI Systems Platform
San Francisco (in-office)
$250–280K base + 0.75–1.5% equity (package flexible for the right person)
Description:
We’re partnering with a well-funded, early-stage company building an AI operating system for corporate transformation; integrating deeply with enterprise systems to map how organisations actually run, and using AI to drive smarter decisions and automation.
They’re hiring a Staff / Principal Engineer to join as a founding-level IC/Leader , owning architecture and helping scale a product already live with enterprise, government, and private equity customers.
This is a hands-on, high-ownership role . You’ll:
- Architect and scale core backend systems (APIs, microservices, orchestration)
- Design and deploy across a modern AWS stack (ECS, RDS, S3, Terraform)
- Integrate deeply with systems like Workday, Salesforce, NetSuite, Jira
- Work directly with customers to map and operationalise complex environments
- Help define engineering standards, hiring, and technical direction
Experience required:
- Staff / Principal-level backend or full-stack engineer
- Strong systems experience (Python, TypeScript, APIs, AWS, cloud infra)
- Background in 0→1 or early-stage startup environments
- Experience building scalable, production-grade systems end-to-end
- Comfortable in customer-facing, high-intensity environments
- Bonus: AI systems, agent frameworks, or data/ML pipelines, come from top 5 CS undergrad
Amazing Opportunity:
- True ownership (product, architecture, culture)
- Product already live with real customers and strong traction
- Backed by top-tier investors and part of a leading AI program
- $250–280K base + 0.75–1.5% equity
If you are interested or would like to learn more; please apply ASAP and drop us an email with details on your experience on what you have built.
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