Staff AI Engineer
People In AIAbout the role
Staff AI Engineer
$280k–$320k base + equity
Remote, United States
High-growth applied AI company building production agents to automate complex enterprise workflows.
This early-stage team is building infrastructure that connects fragmented enterprise data, creates business context, and enables AI agents to execute high-value workflows. With significant commercial traction already established, they’re scaling a deliberately lean engineering team.
What You’ll Do
Build and deploy production AI agents.
Own customer problems from initial discovery through production.
Design systems around complex, fragmented enterprise data.
Improve agent reliability, performance, and failure handling.
Build reusable agent and platform infrastructure.
Work directly with customers and technical leadership.
What You’ll Bring
Experience building and owning AI agents in production.
Strong backend and software engineering fundamentals.
Experience with production LLM systems and their failure modes.
Ability to work across AI, backend, data, and product.
Strong ownership and comfort operating in ambiguous environments.
Startup experience strongly preferred.
Tech Stack
LLMs and agentic systems
Backend and distributed systems
Enterprise data integrations
Context and ontology systems
Why Join?
Join at a rare stage where commercial traction is already significant, but the engineering team remains small. You’ll have meaningful ownership across product, architecture, and customer deployments while solving difficult AI problems tied directly to real-world outcomes.
About People In AI
People In AI connects exceptional AI talent with ambitious companies building the future of artificial intelligence.
Responsibilities
- Build and deploy production AI agents
- Own customer problems from initial discovery through production
- Design systems around complex, fragmented enterprise data
- Improve agent reliability, performance, and failure handling
- Build reusable agent and platform infrastructure
- Work directly with customers and technical leadership
Qualifications
- Experience building and owning AI agents in production
- Strong backend and software engineering fundamentals
- Experience with production LLM systems and their failure modes
- Ability to work across AI, backend, data, and product
- Strong ownership and comfort operating in ambiguous environments
- Startup experience strongly preferred
Benefits
- Equity
Skills mentioned
About People In AI
People In AI is a specialist search firm focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning, data, and software engineering. We partner with venture-backed AI companies, established technology businesses, and global investment firms to hire exceptional technical talent across the United States and Canada. Our recruiters operate within clearly defined specialist markets, giving clients access to deeper talent networks and candidates a more informed search experience. We support hiring across: • AI and Machine Learning Engineering • Research and Applied Science • Forward Deployed Engineering • Data Science, Data Engineering, and Analytics • Software and Platform Engineering • Product, Technical, and Executive Leadership • Quantitative and Investment Data Our services include contingent search, retained search, and tailored hiring partnerships for individual mandates and multi-role growth initiatives. We are particularly experienced in complex, senior, and difficult-to-fill searches where technical understanding, market access, and candidate engagement are critical. View our current opportunities: www.peopleinai.com/jobs