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Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform

$50,000 – $80,000estimatedRemoteFull-timeSeniorPolandDevelopment
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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

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