Senior Software Engineer, AI Operations

RapidSOS

Senior Software Engineer driving AI operations at RapidSOS to enhance emergency response. Collaborating across functions to build AI tools and improve workflows in a dynamic environment.

Posted 4/23/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $195,000 - $210,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Independently identify the highest-leverage opportunities across RapidSOS operations where AI can create meaningful acceleration, simplification, or cost reduction
Design, build, and deploy AI-powered tools, agents, and automations — end to end — with a daily or weekly shipping cadence
Work across every function of the company (engineering, sales, customer success, product, ops) to understand workflows and spot AI application opportunities
Evaluate and adopt the best available AI coding agents and agentic frameworks (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and equivalents) to maximize your own output velocity
Own the full lifecycle of each initiative: discovery, hypothesis, prototype, production, and measurement of impact
Bring a founder's perspective — you are not executing a prescribed roadmap, you are defining it

Requirements

What you’ll need

Senior-level engineering ability — you can go from idea to deployed production system quickly and independently and work across the stack
AI-native mindset — you are already using coding agents, LLM APIs, and agentic frameworks as core parts of your daily workflow, not as experiments
High agency — you do not wait to be told where to look; you form hypotheses, test them, and move on if they do not pan out
Operational curiosity — you are genuinely interested in how businesses work and excited by the prospect of making them work better
Startup DNA — you have founded, co-founded, or joined an early-stage company (or are actively planning to); you think in terms of leverage and impact, not tickets and story points
Speed without sacrificing quality — you ship working software frequently and are comfortable with a weekly cadence of measurable improvements
Clear communicator — you can explain what you built, why you built it, and what it achieved, to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Direct access to a $1B+ company's full operational footprint — data, systems, teams, and leadership — as a testing ground
A focused, highly motivated team of three with minimal process overhead
High trust and high autonomy from day one — no permission-seeking required
The opportunity to build a track record of measurable AI-driven transformation at real company scale
A mission that matters: everything you build ultimately supports faster, smarter emergency response
Competitive salary and benefits and equity participation

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI-powered toolscoding agentsLLM APIsagentic frameworksend-to-end developmentprototype developmentproduction systemsimpact measurementsoftware shippingfull lifecycle management

Soft Skills

high agencyoperational curiosityclear communicationfounder's perspectiveindependent workproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptabilityinitiativespeed without sacrificing quality