Sayari

Staff AI Engineer

Sayari

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $200,000 - $225,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Architect classical and AI powered solutions that are robust, scalable, and thoroughly tested. Contribute directly to expanding the functionality and performance of our code base.
  • Collaborate with our Product and Design teams to evolve our platform roadmap, ensuring product goals are translated into tractable features that appropriately reflect our application's data model and capabilities. Identify capacity constraints to inform development sequencing and prioritization.
  • Lead technical architecture decisions for AI features, balancing research ambitions with production reliability
  • Establish evaluation frameworks and best practices for working with large language models in high-stakes, accuracy-critical domains
  • Act as a multiplier for the engineering team through hands-on mentoring, deep code reviews, and technical training on AI skillsets

Requirements

  • 10+ years of industry experience in software development, including experience as an IC and a mentor/lead.
  • Hands-on experience building production applications with LLMs (Prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, or agentic workflows).
  • Deep understanding and proficiency with SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and/or Cypher-based graph databases
  • Proficiency in TypeScript and backend web development (REST APIs)
  • Experience managing software in cloud environments (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
  • Experience conducting code reviews and unit testing
Benefits
  • 100% fully paid medical, vision, and dental for employees and their dependents
  • Generous time off; we observe all US federal holidays, close our office for a winter break (12/24-12/31), in addition to granting 18 PTO days and 10 sick days
  • Outstanding compensation package; competitive commissions for revenue roles and bonuses for non-revenue positions
  • A strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
  • Eligibility to participate in additional benefits such as 401k match up to 5%, 100% paid life insurance (up to $100,000 coverage),, and parental leave
  • A collaborative and positive culture - your team will be as smart and driven as you
  • Limitless growth and learning opportunities
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI solutions architecturelarge language modelsprompt engineeringRAGfine-tuningTypeScriptREST APIsSQLNoSQLunit testing
Soft Skills
mentoringtechnical trainingcollaborationleadershipcode reviews