Staff AI Engineer

I’m supporting one of the fastest-growing applied AI companies in San Francisco as they hire a Staff AI Engineer for their Agent Team.The company is building production AI agents for the insurance industry, replacing complex manual workflows across carriers, brokers and enterprise businesses.They have:Raised more than $30M from a16z, Y Combinator, Nexus and South Park CommonsGrown rapidly over the past 12 monthsSigned top-10 insurance carriers and brokersDeployed with Fortune 100 and public companiesBuilt a deeply technical team with experience from Apple AI Research, Brex, Coinbase, Uber and multiple YC startupsThis is not a model-training or research role.You’ll be building the systems above the foundation models that make agents reliable in production.What You’ll OwnEnd-to-end evaluation systems for agent performanceAgent orchestration across long-running workflowsTools and MCP servers connecting agents to enterprise systemsContext, memory and reasoning strategiesMulti-agent systems and feedback-driven improvement loopsProduction reliability, observability and failure recoveryExperiments that turn emerging AI research into product capabilitiesBoth founders are engineers, and engineers have a genuine say in product direction.This is a hands-on Staff role for someone who wants to set technical direction, make meaningful architecture decisions and help define how a category-leading company builds agents.The Ideal Background8+ years of software engineering experience3+ years building in AI or machine learningStrong Python and backend engineering fundamentalsRecent experience shipping production LLM or agent systemsOwnership of architecture beyond individual featuresExperience with evals, orchestration, tool use, context engineering or agent reliabilityStrong communication and product judgementComfortable working at speed in an ambitious, on-site environmentPrevious startup, early engineering or founder experience would be particularly valuable.Insurance experience is not required.Location: San Francisco, five days per week on-siteCompensation: $300K-$400K base + meaningful equityMessage me directly if you have built production agent systems and want to help define the technical foundations of a company with serious commercial momentum.