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# Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Applied AI

- **Company:** True Talent Solutions LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000 - $300,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Data Systems, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Enterprise Messaging Systems, Node.Js, RabbitMQ, Recommender Systems, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Model Validation, Backend, Agentic-AI, Apache Kafka
- **Published:** November 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-staff-product-engineer-applied-ai-san-francisco-ca--d6a48eb2-9c5c-44a3-b287-62fe38944d0c

## About the Role

Product Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Product Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agents, Technical Operations, Application Programming Interface (API), Performance Management, Cross-Functional, Leadership, Customer/Client Research, * At least 5 years of software engineering experience for Senior-level candidates, or 7 or more years for Staff-level candidates, with end-to-end product ownership.

 * Experience at a fast-growing startup, shipping products and leading projects with high velocity in ambiguous environments.
 * Strong hands-on skills in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js, with experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and data models.
 * Familiarity with PostgreSQL and messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
 * Experience building and deploying agentic or applied AI products; agent platform experience with orchestration, evaluations, and model selection is valuable.
 * Strong product judgment, cross-functional collaboration, and a track record of delivering measurable business impact.
 * Background in marketplaces, matching or recommendation systems, recruiting, operations technology, or products for non-technical users is useful.
 * Strong computer science fundamentals and a record of sustained contributions in prior roles.

## Description

Join the product engineering team at an early-stage industrial staffing and operations technology company. You will bring AI agents into production workflows and build the backend platform that supports worker sourcing, vetting, matching, and placement., * Design how AI agents and models are applied across staffing and operations workflows.

 * Architect and lead core backend systems, including real-time matching and automated vetting pipelines.
 * Own platform architecture and make decisions that support the company's evolving product needs.
 * Improve backend performance, reliability, and scale across APIs, data systems, and infrastructure.
 * Partner with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to turn ambiguous product needs into working systems.
 * For agent-focused work, develop agent harnesses, orchestration patterns, evaluation infrastructure, and model strategy.
 * Use customer and operational insights to shape system design and product decisions.