Sr Staff Software Engineer, AI Innovation
Core
Building and enhancing agentic systems, real-time voice, and multimodal experiences directly in production with real customers.
Role type
Senior Staff Software Engineer (AI Innovation)
Builds
Agentic systems, real-time voice, and multimodal experiences for PayPal's payment platform
Domain
Fintech / AI / LLMs
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
LLMs, agentic systems, fast prototyping, research instincts, engineering fundamentals, cross-team leadership, strategic decision-making
Preferred skills
real-time voice, multimodal experience, automated evaluation, model fine-tuning
Technologies
LLM frameworks, agent orchestration tools
Responsibilities
Make technical decisions affecting multiple teams, establish engineering conventions, partner with product management to ideate solutions, research new models and frameworks, launch experiments with safe-rollout practices, track metrics like quality, latency, cost, and impact, extend agent platform's orchestration and tool use
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact