Sr Python AI Engineer/Architect : Full time

• Preference for candidates in/near San Francisco, CA.
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Role: Sr Python AI Engineer/Architect

Location: Mission District-SF, CA Onsite role

Full-Time Position

Technical Stack

• TypeScript and Python are primary languages; experience with web stack and Chrome extensions beneficial.
• Focus on enabling AI tools and infrastructure for rapid development.

Seniority

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering.

Work experience

• Has shipped and maintained production platform infrastructure in a B2B SaaS environment -CI/CD, Kubernetes, containerization, cloud deployments, database migrations; has made painful mistakes and learned from them
• Startup experience post-Series A; ideally has seen a company grow from Series A-B

You’re a great fit if you have:

• Built and scaled complex infrastructure systems
• Worked with Kubernetes, ETL pipelines, AWS/GCP/Cloudflare, CI/CD, and SOC 2 environments
• Strong judgment across security, reliability, cost, and iteration-speed tradeoffs
• Been operating at the edge of AI-first development for some time
• Learned practical lessons from decades of enterprise-grade engineering patterns
• Strong opinions on how old systems should be improved or replaced
• High ownership and comfort working across many domains

What you'll do:

• Build internal platforms and AI loops that increase company iteration speed
• Strengthen security, compliance, and operational readiness
• Improve CI/CD, testing, deployments, and developer environments
• Evaluate and implement new tooling, storage, and compute systems
• Enable non-technical staff to build and ship improvements safely
• Enable technical teams to ship scalable, enterprise-ready systems faster
• Resolve incidents and production fires with both immediate fixes and long-term solutions