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Staff Product Software Engineer

Redwood City, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Direct AI coding agents to build production systems, deciding scope, structure, and trade-offs to ship fast.

Role type

Staff Product Software Engineer (AI Agent Direction)

Builds

Production systems and AI-driven engineering workflows

Domain

AI / Generative AI / Software Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

System design, distributed systems, security, infrastructure, AI coding tools fluency, product intuition, technical judgment, end-to-end ownership, mentorship

Preferred skills

Experience with high-scale systems (100k+ users or 1M+ MAU), open-source leadership, deep product success

Technologies

AI coding agents, production software stacks

Responsibilities

Direct AI agents to build systems, decide build vs. not-build, set technical direction, co-own product direction, make hard trade-offs, shape architecture, mentor engineers on AI tools

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope

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