Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform
Responsibilities
- Set the multi-year technical strategy for AI platform development, partnering with senior EPD leadership on long-term vision
- Architect foundational AI systems that serve multiple product teams, including LLM orchestration frameworks, MCP infrastructure, and agent patterns
- Own technical decisions with organization-wide impact where the right answer is ambiguous or contested
- Define engineering-wide quality standards and best practices for AI development, establishing patterns that scale across teams
- Drive technical alignment across the Agentic SDK team and product teams consuming AI capabilities
- Invest deeply in coaching P4 engineers, helping them develop toward staff-level scope and strategic thinking
- Represent CaptivateIQ's technical perspective in industry discussions, open-source contributions, or technical publications
What you’ll do
- Architect and lead the technical strategy for AI platform development
- Define and maintain architectural direction for AI capabilities across product teams
- Establish quality standards and scalable engineering practices for AI development
- Mentor and coach engineers toward staff-level impact
- Collaborate with senior leadership to align technology with business objectives
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with progression into staff-level technical leadership
- Deep expertise in LLM orchestration, production experience building agent frameworks, agent design patterns, tool integration, and workflow optimization
- Significant experience designing MCP integrations and knowledge systems at scale, including tool server architecture, embedding pipelines, and context optimization
- Track record of setting technical strategy spanning multiple teams and multi-year horizons
- Experience partnering with senior leadership to align technical direction with business objectives
- Demonstrated ability to make high-stakes technical decisions under ambiguity
- Strong mentorship track record developing senior engineers toward staff-level impact
- Curiosity and continuous learning in the rapidly evolving AI/LLM space
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated progression into staff-level technical leadership
- Deep expertise in LLM orchestration: production experience building agent frameworks, including agent design patterns, tool integration, and workflow optimization
- Significant experience designing MCP integrations and knowledge systems at scale, including tool server architecture, embedding pipelines, and context optimization
- Track record of setting technical strategy that spans multiple teams and multi-year time horizons
- Experience partnering with senior leadership (Directors, VPs) to align technical direction with business objectives
- Demonstrated ability to make high-stakes technical decisions under extreme ambiguity
- Strong mentorship track record, particularly in developing senior engineers toward staff-level impact
- Demonstrated curiosity and continuous learning in the rapidly evolving AI/LLM space
Bonus Points
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience with Django or similar backend frameworks
- Full-stack capabilities with React and TypeScript
- Experience building and scaling internal AI/ML platforms or developer experience infrastructure
- Familiarity with LLM orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, or equivalent)
- Deep expertise in advanced agent architectures: multi-agent coordination, autonomous planning, or complex tool ecosystems
- Experience with AI evaluation, observability, and production monitoring at enterprise scale
- Published technical writing, conference talks, or significant open-source contributions in AI/ML
- Background building AI-powered products that shipped to enterprise customers with measurable business impact
- Experience at a B2B SaaS company during periods of significant growth or platform expansion
- Familiarity with sales performance management, incentive compensation, or adjacent enterprise domains
Benefits & Perks
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Team & Company Context
- Reference to Agentic SDK team, an internal developer platform enabling product teams to build AI-powered features
- Greenfield opportunity to define how AI gets built at CaptivateIQ




