Staff Software Engineer, AI Products
TruckSmarter
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $210,000 - $240,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Partner with product, design, and engineering to turn ambiguous problems into clear technical plans and scalable architectures.
- Own the end-to-end design and delivery of complex, cross-cutting features (product + infrastructure + reliability).
- Define and evolve the architecture for agentic AI systems (text + voice) that can reason, take actions, and self-evaluate.
- Build and integrate GenAI agents with traditional ML systems to power hybrid intelligent workflows.
- Establish and raise the bar for quality, observability, and performance across our products and AI model behavior (monitoring, evaluation pipelines, iteration loops).
- Make crucial architectural decisions that will influence feature development for years—balancing speed with long-term maintainability.
- Lead technical reviews and provide high-leverage feedback through code reviews, design docs, and system-level guidance.
- Mentor and unblock other engineers; help the team move faster by improving systems, tooling, and execution patterns.
- Continuously experiment with new technologies and frameworks—introducing them when they create durable product advantage.
Requirements
- 8+ years of industry experience building and shipping production software (or equivalent depth of impact), including leading large projects end-to-end.
- Drivers, not passengers
- A track record of architecting scalable systems and making principled tradeoffs across product, reliability, and velocity.
- Informed opinions about LLMs, agent behavior, and evaluation—and the rigor to validate them in production.
- Experience thriving in fast-moving environments with shifting priorities and imperfect information.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence without relying on org structure.
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Hard skills
architecting scalable systemsGenAI agentsmachine learning systemsAI model behaviormonitoringevaluation pipelinesiteration loopstechnical reviewscode reviewsdesign documentation
Soft skills
mentoringinfluencingproblem-solvingleadershipcollaborationcommunicationadaptabilitycritical thinkingfeedback provisionexecution improvement