Staff Software Engineer

<h3>Job Description</h3><div><p><strong>Staff Software Engineer</strong></p>\n<p><strong>$220,000–$250,000 base + equity</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Brooklyn, NY (On-site)</strong></p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p>A fast-growing AI company is building intelligent software and automation systems designed to modernize complex operational workflows. The team is small, product-focused, and moving quickly across AI-powered tooling, workflow automation, and internal intelligence systems.</p>\n<p>They’re looking for a senior engineer who wants to build at the intersection of software craftsmanship, AI tooling, and high-impact product development.</p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p><strong>The Opportunity</strong></p>\n<p>You’ll join as the fourth engineer on a highly collaborative team, shipping user-facing features end-to-end across frontend, backend, infrastructure, databases, and AI workflows. The product process is intentionally tight: customer discovery leads to high-fidelity prototypes, and engineering turns validated ideas into production software in days, not months.</p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p>The company is building a shared intelligence layer that powers core workflows across the platform, including automation systems, structured data workflows, AI-assisted decision making, and internal tooling. This hire will play a key role in shaping the systems that accelerate product velocity over the next phase of growth.</p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Ship high-impact product features across core platform workflows</li>\n <li>Own projects end-to-end across frontend, backend, infrastructure, databases, and AI systems</li>\n <li>Build and improve AI-powered workflows leveraging LLMs, prompt systems, structured outputs, and internal tooling</li>\n <li>Contribute to the architecture and evolution of the company’s shared intelligence platform</li>\n <li>Improve engineering velocity through tooling, testing, infrastructure hardening, and developer experience</li>\n <li>Collaborate closely with PMs and leadership to rapidly productionize validated prototypes</li>\n <li>Build strong judgment around customer needs and challenge product decisions when necessary</li>\n <li>Operate as a highly autonomous engineer within a fast-moving, in-person team</li>\n</ul>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p><strong>What You’ll Bring</strong></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Experience shipping production software in real-world environments</li>\n <li>Strong product intuition and the ability to quickly identify what matters most</li>\n <li>Experience building across the stack, from frontend UX to backend systems and infrastructure</li>\n <li>Experience working with AI-assisted development tools including Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, and similar platforms</li>\n <li>Familiarity with modern AI application patterns, including prompt engineering, retrieval workflows, structured generation, and evaluation loops</li>\n <li>Strong Python experience alongside modern TypeScript and JavaScript development</li>\n <li>Comfort working in ambiguity and moving quickly with high ownership</li>\n <li>A generalist mindset and willingness to jump between disciplines as needed</li>\n <li>Excitement about small, highly collaborative teams and in-person building</li>\n <li>Strong communication skills and thoughtful technical judgment</li>\n</ul>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p><strong>Tech Stack</strong></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Python</li>\n <li>TypeScript and JavaScript</li>\n <li>React and modern frontend systems</li>\n <li>Backend APIs and distributed systems</li>\n <li>LLMs and AI application infrastructure</li>\n <li>AI-assisted development workflows</li>\n <li>Infrastructure and developer tooling</li>\n <li>Internal intelligence and automation platforms</li>\n</ul>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p><strong>Why Join?</strong></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Work on meaningful problems using AI to improve complex operational workflows</li>\n <li>Join a deeply product-focused engineering culture that ships exceptionally fast</li>\n <li>Build alongside a small, senior, highly collaborative team</li>\n <li>High ownership and direct influence on product and technical direction</li>\n <li>Competitive compensation and meaningful equity upside</li>\n <li>Full healthcare coverage and standard benefits</li>\n</ul>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p><strong>About People In AI</strong></p>\n<p>People In AI partners with ambitious AI startups and technology companies to help them hire exceptional talent across engineering, research, product, and go-to-market functions. We work closely with founders and leadership teams building category-defining companies at the frontier of AI.</p></div>