Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Applied AI
- Salary
- $200,000 - $300,000 annually
- Level
- Staff
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
- Visa
- Sponsors visas
Open. First seen 2 November 2026.
About the role
About the Role
Join the applied AI team at a Series A/B workforce technology company serving industrial operations. You will bring AI agents into the core product, building and scaling the backend systems that support worker sourcing, vetting, matching, and placement.
What You'll Do
- Define how AI agents can automate workflows across a staffing marketplace and guide the team's use of AI-assisted development tools.
- Architect and lead core backend systems, including real-time matching and automated vetting pipelines.
- Own platform architecture and make technical decisions that support the product's needs as it grows.
- Improve backend performance, reliability, and scale across APIs, data models, and distributed systems.
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to turn ambiguous problems into practical, customer-focused solutions.
What We're Looking For
- Five or more years of software engineering experience for Senior roles, or seven or more years for Staff roles, including end-to-end product ownership in early-stage teams.
- Hands-on experience at a fast-growing startup, shipping and leading high-velocity projects through ambiguity and cross-functional challenges.
- Strong Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js skills, with experience designing APIs, data models, and distributed systems using technologies such as PostgreSQL and Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Experience building and shipping agentic or applied AI products, and using coding agents to turn ambiguous problems into working prototypes.
- Strong product judgment, with the ability to connect technical decisions to user needs and business impact.
- Background in areas such as AI, marketplaces, matching systems, recruiting, or operational software for non-technical users is valuable.
- Strong computer science or other technical fundamentals, and a track record of sustained ownership in previous roles.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Kafka · Node.js · RabbitMQ
Rare in True Talent Solutions Partners's other 124 open postings.
Standard for software engineering roles
Python
Common in software engineering postings at any company.
Compared with True Talent Solutions Partners's other open jobs.
The team: Client Roles
This role is one of 125 open in Client Roles. 125 were posted in the last 30 days, including 7 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (64 of 125), TypeScript (45 of 125), LLM (44 of 125), React (41 of 125), JavaScript (28 of 125), AWS (24 of 125), Machine Learning (24 of 125)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Founding AI Agent Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Operate posted Nov 2
- Engineering Lead posted Nov 2
- Robotics Software Engineer posted Nov 2
- Product Manager, AI Platform posted Nov 2
- Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure posted Nov 2
- Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems posted Nov 2
- Agent Deployment Engineer posted Nov 2
- Engineering Manager, Agents posted Nov 2
- Founding Fullstack Engineer posted Nov 2
- Lead Platform Engineer posted Nov 2
- Founding Product Designer posted Nov 2
- Founding PLM Solutions Engineer posted Nov 2
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 2
- Software Engineer posted Nov 2
- Design Engineer posted Nov 2
- Research Crawling Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer posted Nov 2
- Software Engineer, AI Agents posted Nov 2
- Senior Full-Stack Engineer posted Nov 2
- Full-Stack Engineer, AI Agents posted Nov 2
- Senior Power Electronics Engineer posted Nov 2
- Software Engineer, Marketplace posted Nov 2
- Engineering Manager posted Nov 2
- Senior AI/ML Engineer posted Nov 2
- Mechanical Engineer posted Nov 2
- Computer Vision ML / Research Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior Software Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior Full Stack Engineer posted Nov 2
- Member of Technical Staff, ML Systems posted Nov 2
- AI-Native Electrical Engineer posted Nov 2
- Mid/Senior Full Stack AI Engineer posted Nov 2
- Forward Deployed Product Manager posted Nov 2
- Director of Engineering posted Nov 2
- Founding Senior Engineer posted Nov 2
- Product Lead posted Nov 2
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior Backend Software Engineer posted Nov 2
- Staff Product Manager posted Nov 2
- Founding Product Designer posted Nov 2
- Member of Technical Staff, Applied Researcher posted Nov 2
- Senior Security Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior Solutions Engineer, Digital Native and Mid-Market posted Nov 2
- Product Engineer posted Nov 2
- Software Engineer, C++ Systems posted Nov 2
- Senior Software Engineer posted Nov 2
- Member of Technical Staff, AI Agents posted Nov 2
- Lead Software Engineer, Platform posted Nov 2
- Technical Product Manager posted Nov 2
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior Control Electronics Engineer posted Nov 1
- Research Engineer, Evals posted Nov 1
- Software Engineer posted Nov 1
- Founding Product Engineer posted Nov 1
- Fullstack Software Engineer posted Nov 1
- Frontend Engineer posted Nov 1
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 1
- Founding AI Engineer posted Nov 1
- Founding ML Research Engineer posted Nov 1
- Senior Platform Engineer posted Nov 1
- Member of Technical Staff, Compiler posted Nov 1
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 1
- Founding Engineer posted Nov 1
- Product Engineer, Mid-Senior posted Nov 1
- AI Scheduler posted Nov 1
- Lead Product Engineer posted Nov 1
- Product Manager, Supply Chain posted Nov 1
- Founding Full-Stack Engineer posted Nov 1
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 1
- Founding Product Designer posted Nov 1
- Product Manager, Product Growth posted Nov 1
- Software Engineer, iOS posted Nov 1
- Senior Full Stack Software Engineer posted Nov 1
- Electrical & Computer Engineer posted Nov 1
- Founding Backend Software Engineer posted Nov 1
- Engineering Manager posted Nov 1
- Member of Technical Staff posted Nov 1
- Technical Recruiter posted Nov 1
- Product Manager, AI Education posted Nov 1
- Agent Deployment Engineer posted Nov 1
- Full Stack Engineer posted Nov 1
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 1
- Brand & Identity / Presentation Designer posted Nov 1
- Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer posted Nov 1
- Founding Engineer posted Nov 1
- Full-Stack Product Engineer posted Nov 1
- Senior ML / AI Engineer posted Nov 1
- Full-Stack Engineer, Agent Evaluation & Reliability posted Nov 1
- Senior LATAM Brazil QA Engineer posted Nov 1
- Senior Full-Stack Engineer posted Nov 1
- Director of Engineering posted Nov 1
- GTM Engineer posted Nov 1
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 1
- Senior / Staff Product Engineer posted Nov 1
- Member of Technical Staff posted Nov 1
- Senior Analog/Mixed Signal Engineer posted Nov 1
- Forward Deployed Product Manager posted Nov 1
- Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core) posted Nov 1
- Founding Engineer posted Nov 1
- Member of Technical Staff posted Nov 1
- Product Engineer, Scrape posted Nov 1
- Lead Platform Engineer posted Nov 1
- Solutions Engineer posted Nov 1
- Principal Software Engineer, Perception posted Nov 1
- Backend Infrastructure Engineer, Anti-Bot posted Nov 1
- Principal Analog/Mixed-Signal Engineer posted Oct 31
- Senior Member of Technical Staff, Platform posted Oct 31
- Robotics Infrastructure Engineer posted Oct 31
- Staff Product Manager, AI posted Oct 31
- Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineering posted Oct 31
- Founding Product Engineer posted Oct 31
- Head of RF Engineering posted Oct 31
- Software Engineer, Security posted Oct 31
- Senior Software Engineer, Customer Studio Backend posted Oct 31
- Technical Product Manager posted Oct 31
- Founding Software Engineer posted Oct 31
- Electrical Engineer posted Oct 31
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 30
- Data Engineer, Data Product posted Oct 30
- Senior Product Manager, Staffing and AI Agents posted Oct 30
- Founding Product Engineer posted Oct 30
- Software Engineer posted Oct 30
- Senior Software Engineer, Design posted Oct 30
- Member of Technical Staff, Full Stack posted Oct 30
From the team and dates on True Talent Solutions Partners's own job board.
Posting history
Reposted 2 times since 28 October 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.
- 2 November 2026 – open (this posting)
- 31 October 2026 – closed 1 November 2026
- 28 October 2026 – closed 30 October 2026
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