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Software Engineer, AI Developer Tooling

United States, San Francisco 180000.00 - 225000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted April 05, 2026
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In this role, you will redefine how engineers develop, build, test, and deploy software at Scale using AI development tools in addition to traditional practices. You’ll also get widespread exposure to the forefront of the AI race as Scale sees it in enterprises, startups, governments, and large tech companies.

Job Responsibility

  • Define next-generation AI development tooling and frameworks using products like Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and MS Copilot, as well as in-house custom-built solutions
  • Drive the architecture, design, and implementation of our local development process, build, test, continuous integration, and continuous delivery systems, working closely with stakeholders and internal customers to understand and refine requirements
  • Directly mentor software engineers ranging from new grads to experienced engineers
  • Proactively identify opportunities and drive improvements to software development practices, processes, tools, and languages
  • Present technical information to teams and stakeholders, providing guidance and insight on development processes and technologies

Requirements

  • 4+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation, with experience in build, test, or CI/CD systems
  • Extensive experience defining and evangelizing best-practices for AI development tools, including cost guardrails, security frameworks, and hosting knowledge-sharing sessions, among others
  • Extensive experience in software development and a deep understanding of distributed systems and public cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
  • Experience configuring, testing, and enabling MCP servers, AI agents, and other associated systems
  • Show a track record of independent ownership of successful engineering projects
  • Possess excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience working fluently with standard infrastructure, containerization, and deployment technologies like Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
  • Experience with modern web frameworks like NodeJS, NextJS, etc.
  • Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and CI/CD tooling (CircleCI, Helm, ArgoCD)

Nice to have

  • Experience scaling products at hyper-growth startups
  • Experience with modern build systems like Bazel, Buck, Pants, etc.

What we offer

  • Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • a learning and development stipend
  • generous PTO
  • equity grant
  • commuter stipend
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