Raydar
Staff Software Engineer
$210K–$260K
San Francisco, California · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 31, 2026
- Experience
- 8 or more years; recent hands-on language-model functionality experience over the past two years.
About the job
Serves as the hands-on technical lead for a small product engineering team, delivering full-stack customer-facing features, including AI functionality, while guiding engineers and shaping engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Own AI-driven product features from design through release and deliver full-stack work across interfaces, backend services, infrastructure, and data pipelines.
- Lead and mentor junior engineers, setting code review standards and engineering workflows.
- Partner with product, customer-facing staff, and leadership to scope upcoming work.
What they ask for
- 8 or more years of software engineering experience.
- Prior experience directing engineers’ technical work, steering major initiatives, and organizing colleagues’ efforts.
- Hands-on product engineering delivery of customer-facing products built from the ground up; full-stack feature ownership, with a backend lean acceptable.
- Recent hands-on experience bringing language-model-based functionality into live use over the past two years.
Nice to have
- Experience across early-stage startups and larger engineering organizations.
- Production AI evaluation or LLM observability tooling, multi-step agentic pipelines, or interest in life sciences or healthcare.
Pay
USD 210,000 to 260,000 per year (base salary)
AI focus
Own and deliver AI-driven product features, including language-model functionality; production AI evaluation, LLM observability, and multi-step agentic pipelines are mentioned as bonus experience.
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