
Staff Engineer – Labs
Bully Pulpit International
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Washington • District of Columbia • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $150,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Write production-quality code across the full stack, working across the entire software lifecycle from shaping features with stakeholders to deployment and optimization
- Build new tools and products from scratch as part of the Labs team - prototype-hardening is a major part of this role, but you'll also own and ship your own projects end-to-end
- Define the overall approach for how prototypes built by teams across BPI - often in tools like Replit - get evaluated, hardened, and moved into production (or don't)
- Build and own the solutions that make this cycle repeatable: the mix of process, standards, tooling, and technical infrastructure that lets this work safely at scale
- Establish evaluation, testing, and review frameworks for LLM-powered applications -including knowing when an AI-driven approach isn't the right one
- Set technical direction and mentor other engineers and non-engineering builders as they work with LLM tools, helping them build prototypes that are easier to harden later
- Work directly with stakeholders and end users to consult on their prototypes, shape what's worth investing in, and translate the best ideas into reliable, production-grade software
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in software development, building, launching, and maintaining full-stack applications
- A strong foundation in software engineering: you write clean, well-tested code and care about architecture, security, and maintainability
- Strong experience building production systems using Python/Django and React
- Strong experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containers (Docker), and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with data tools like Snowflake/dbt is a significant plus
- Plenty of experience with a wide variety of SDLCs, and a proven ability to influence process in pragmatic and non-dogmatic ways
- Hands-on experience building with LLM APIs, agent frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and prompt engineering - you've shipped LLM-powered features or products, not just experimented
- Product-focused thinking - you're comfortable in a room with stakeholders, shaping what to build, not just how to build it
- A healthy skepticism about AI hype, grounded in practical concerns: you think carefully about evaluation and testing, data privacy and security, hallucination and reliability, and when not to use an LLM at all
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work across a diverse set of collaborators, from engineers to non-technical end users
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) program with employer match up to 4%
- Generous time off for vacation
- $50 monthly phone reimbursement
- Unlimited sick time
- 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
full-stack developmentproduction-quality codePythonDjangoReactcloud infrastructureAWSGCPAzureLLM APIs
Soft Skills
communication skillsstakeholder engagementmentoringproduct-focused thinkingevaluation and testingdata privacy and securitycritical thinkingcollaborationinfluencing processskepticism about AI hype