Profound
Member of Technical Staff, TLM, Context Engineering
$230K–$275K
San Francisco, California · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 28, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with at least 2 years managing or tech-leading a team.
About the job
Leads Profound’s Context team, building and operating the integrations, data synchronization, retrieval, knowledge graph, and memory systems that provide customer context to AI agents.
What you'll do
- Own the Context roadmap and lead technical decisions, planning, hiring, and development of a team of 4 to 8 engineers.
- Build and improve integrations, data synchronization, retrieval quality, knowledge graph, and agent memory systems; write and review code.
- Partner with product and agent teams, and handle customer-facing technical issues involving integrations, stale data, retrieval, and security commitments.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience, including at least 2 years managing or tech-leading a team.
- Strong Python and Postgres skills.
- Production experience building search or retrieval systems, including embeddings, vector stores, hybrid search, reranking, and chunking.
- Experience with third-party API integrations at scale, data synchronization correctness, hiring senior ICs, and giving feedback.
Nice to have
- Rust; knowledge graphs or entity resolution; agent memory or context management; MCP; high-volume event ingestion and streaming; enterprise B2B SaaS security; evaluation harnesses for non-deterministic systems.
Pay
$230,000 to $275,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Rust, Postgres, OAuth, MCP, embeddings, vector stores
AI focus
Builds context, retrieval, knowledge graph, and memory systems that help AI agents access and reuse customer information; measures retrieval quality with evaluations.
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