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# Senior Software Engineer, AI

- **Company:** PEOPLE INC.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $230,000 - $300,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software Architecture, Application Data, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Backend, Automation Anywhere
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/2_174260659

## About the Role

* Strong senior-level software engineering experience with evidence of owning and shipping meaningful production systems.
 * Deep understanding of software architecture, system design, data flows, reliability, and production failure modes.
 * Backend or backend-leaning full-stack experience, with the ability to deliver features end to end when required.
 * Evidence of high ownership and agency, particularly in environments where problems and roadmaps are not fully defined.
 * Experience operating in high-performing engineering teams, scaling environments, or early-stage companies where individual contribution is highly visible.
 * Practical understanding of modern AI and agentic systems; this could come from production work, substantial side projects, or other hands-on building.
 * Strong communication skills and the ability to connect technical decisions with customer and product outcomes

What This Role Requires

 * Strong production software engineering and system-design capability.
 * Demonstrated ownership of complex technical projects rather than purely executing against a predefined roadmap.
 * Ability to operate comfortably in ambiguity and move between engineering, product, and infrastructure concerns when needed.
 * Hands-on understanding of agentic AI systems and their capabilities, limitations, and failure modes.
 * Ability to work effectively in a small, fast-moving team with broad individual ownership.

## Description

You'll work as a senior-to-staff-level IC across software engineering, applied AI, infrastructure, and product.

The emphasis is on being an exceptional engineer first: someone who can reason about complex systems, operate in ambiguity, and turn rapidly evolving AI capabilities into reliable customer-facing software.

What You'll Do

 * Build customer-facing agentic product experiences that simplify complex, multi-step operational workflows.
 * Design and expand the systems that allow agents to safely interact with structured application data and execute actions.
 * Develop end-to-end AI workflows that replace repetitive, manual, and error-prone processes.
 * Productionize existing AI capabilities and improve their reliability, quality, monitoring, and failure handling.
 * Develop evaluation tooling and help define engineering standards for high-quality agentic systems.
 * Partner closely with product, engineers, domain experts, and customers to identify where AI can create meaningful product value.
 * Own ambiguous projects from initial problem definition through architecture, implementation, deployment, and iteration.