Staff Software Engineer, AI Email Applications, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Required - Work From Home

Staff Software Engineer, AI Email Applications, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Required - Work From Home   As the Staff Software Engineer, AI Email Applications, you own the engineering layer that turns AI capability into a reliable product.  You will shape the architecture across backend services, APIs, and client applications, while leading a small team of senior engineers.  This is a hands-on leadership role.  You stay close to the code, make critical architectural decisions, and ensure the system remains fast, reliable, and coherent as it scales.  This position is 100% Remote.   MUST BE WILLING TO TAKE A 60 MINUTE CODING ASSESSMENT.   Staff Software Engineer Responsibilities:   - Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop. - Design reliable systems for AI-powered workflows, including state, orchestration, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling. - Build the APIs and abstractions that connect Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems to real-world product experiences. - Lead a small, senior engineering team and raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on mentorship. - Make high-impact trade-offs across latency, reliability, cost, security, and user experience. - Establish strong production foundations: observability, monitoring, testing, and operational excellence. - Partner closely with Machine Learning (ML) leadership to turn model capabilities into robust, shippable product experiences. - Move quickly while keeping the architecture simple, maintainable, and ready to scale.   Staff Software Engineer Outcomes:   - Production systems are observable, monitored, and stable under real-world load. - Decisions consistently balance speed, cost, reliability, and user experience. - Features across backend, mobile, and desktop work smoothly and reliably. - Latency and reliability improve measurably over time. Staff Software Engineer Qualifications:   - Artificial Intelligence (AI) experience required. - Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems. - Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production. - Experience building AI-powered products or systems that integrate with modern Machine Learning (ML)/Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities. - Strong technical judgment and the ability to make decisions with incomplete information. - Comfortable working across backend and client platforms, with deep expertise in at least one. - A strong bias toward ownership, shipping, and learning from real-world usage. - High standards for code quality, reliability, and engineering fundamentals.   Benefits include medical insurance, Dental, Vision, Savings Plan Options, PTO, etc.   Keywords:  San Francisco CA Jobs, AI, Artificial Intelligence, AI Email Applications, APIs, Backend, Desktop, LLM, Large…