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# Senior/Staff Software Engineer, AI Insights

- **Company:** AXION
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Databases, Customer Data Management, Data Warehousing, Distributed Systems, Performance Tuning, Salesforce.Com, Software Engineering, Unstructured Data, Data Processing, Cloud Platform System, Large Language Models, Backend, Agentic-AI, Serverless Computing
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-staff-software-engineer-ai-insights-san-francisco-ca--3d3764cc-1e37-475b-8b59-8c97136cb161

## About the Role

Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Manufacturing, Customer Experience, Customer Satisfaction, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Problem Solving Skills, Aerospace and Defense, Industry Standards, Salesforce.com, * 5+ years building and operating production backend or data-intensive systems

 * Production experience with LLM systems, including multi-step, tool-using, or agentic workflows
 * Experience measuring and improving model quality, through evals, prompting, fine-tuning, or a mix
 * Experience designing distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, and reliable data-processing services
 * Working knowledge of data warehousing, ideally applied to versioned datasets, lineage, or feedback capture
 * Experience running containerized applications on a major cloud platform ([AWS/GCP/Azure])

Bonus points

 * Fine-tuning or distillation experience (SFT, LoRA, or provider tuning APIs)
 * Experience with LLM observability and cost/latency optimization

## Description

We're hiring for a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to help lead our agile, fast-moving backend teams. In this role, you'll design and build scalable agentic systems, backend services and data-processing workflows that transform complex, unstructured customer data into reliable, structured outputs. . You'll help shape the architecture of our APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, and LLM-powered and agentic systems while improving their reliability, observability, and performance. Working closely with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams, you'll translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical direction and lead foundational decisions that scale with the company. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape the company's technical strategy and make foundational decisions that will scale with us, * Architect and operate multi-step, tool-using agentic pipelines that convert unstructured data into reliable structured output

 * Build evaluation frameworks, golden datasets, and feedback loops that measure quality and catch regressions
 * Improve model performance through prompt and pipeline optimization, model selection, and fine-tuning where it pays off
 * Own the reliability of cloud-native services: deployment, observability, scalability, and on-call support
 * Mentor engineers and lead cross-team technical initiatives from design through production