Otter.ai
Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Product)
$185K–$230K
Mountain View, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2020
- Experience
- 5+ years.
About the job
Leads the design and delivery of backend systems and AI-powered product features, from concept through production, to turn conversations into useful user-facing outcomes.
What you'll do
- Design and deliver AI-backed features and systems using LLMs, retrieval, and structured data.
- Improve AI output quality through evaluation, user feedback, and experimentation.
- Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and model effective use of AI-assisted development tools.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building and scaling product-facing systems.
- Track record of owning complex features or product areas end-to-end.
- Writes clean, maintainable code; Python preferred, with architecture and design skills across a modern web stack.
- Experience with AI/LLM-powered systems, or ability to ramp quickly and contribute to shaping their production behavior.
Nice to have
- Experience building or experimenting with LLM-powered features, including prompting, evaluation, or RAG.
- Exposure to user feedback loops, experimentation, or evaluation frameworks.
Pay
$185,000 to $230,000 USD per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, LLMs, RAG
AI focus
Build and operate AI product features, including LLM orchestration, retrieval, structured outputs, evaluation, and AI-assisted development.
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