Shepherd
Software Engineer, Applied AI
$170K–$400K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- At least 5+ years of working experience; preferably as a full-stack engineer.
About the job
Build and ship production AI systems that improve insurance underwriting, pricing, and internal workflows.
What you'll do
- Identify AI opportunities with product, engineering, underwriting, and data teams; own features end-to-end.
- Build and deploy LLM-powered features, agents, and retrieval-augmented systems that extract insights from insurance data.
- Develop AI infrastructure for model serving, inference, evaluation, and monitoring, and establish practices for reliability.
What they ask for
- Strong backend engineering experience building scalable APIs and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience shipping AI-powered products into production.
- Familiarity with LLMs, RAG architectures, embeddings, and vector databases.
- At least 5+ years of working experience; track record of delivering high-impact products.
Nice to have
- Experience building AI agents or multi-step reasoning systems.
- Background in applied machine learning beyond generative AI; pricing systems, financial infrastructure, or risk modeling experience is also a bonus.
Pay
$170K – $400K USD base salary
Tools
React, Next.js, Typescript, GraphQL w/ Apollo, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, GraphQL APIs
AI focus
Develop production LLM-powered features, AI agents, and retrieval-augmented systems for underwriting, pricing, and internal tools; build AI infrastructure and improve model evaluation and reliability.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative