Altana AI
Staff Software Engineer
$175K–$230K
Brooklyn, NY · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
About the job
Leads a small engineering team to build and launch AI-native products shaped by customer workflows, with responsibility for adoption and end-to-end technical outcomes.
What you'll do
- Work directly with customers and product/design partners to identify needs, form hypotheses, and choose product experiments.
- Lead new product surfaces from prototype through production and adoption, using customer outcomes and telemetry to guide iteration.
- Set technical standards, make practical architectural decisions, and mentor engineers in customer-focused product development.
What they ask for
- Experience deploying production code and services to cloud-hosted environments.
- Demonstrated experience delivering incremental releases from proof-of-concept to MVP to production.
- Experience leading other engineers on complex projects.
- Self-starter with experience working on large, complex problems; strong engineering quality and communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with Python machine-learning toolsets such as Numpy, Pandas, or Dedupe.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
Pay
$175,000 - $230,000 USD (annual base salary)
Tools
LLMs, agents, evals, retrieval, Python, PySpark, Docker, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build AI-native products using LLMs, agents, evals, retrieval, and modern AI tooling as core product building blocks.
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