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Senior Staff Applications Development Engineer

Santa Clara, California, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-13 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and operate AI-native enterprise applications for high-tech and regulated industries (telecom, healthcare, finance, manufacturing) that interpret user intent and execute autonomous workflows.

Role type

Senior Staff IC Software Engineer (AI-native applications)

Builds

Scalable, AI-native industry applications with agentic behavior, autonomous workflows, and conversational interfaces.

Domain

Enterprise SaaS, AI/LLM, Regulated Industries

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

AI-native application development, agent orchestration, prompt engineering, system design, distributed systems, data modeling, software architecture, test automation, technical leadership

Preferred skills

ServiceNow platform experience, domain expertise in high-tech/regulated industries

Technologies

Cloud, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, LLM frameworks, evaluation frameworks

Responsibilities

Design and build agentic behavior and autonomous workflows; author and maintain agentic instructions and prompts; engineer prompts for reliability and evaluate non-deterministic behavior; build automated evaluation and testing suites; deliver as a forward-deployed engineer embedded with customers; own quality, safety, and reliability in production; serve as a technical leader mentoring engineers and influencing architecture.

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC with leadership

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