Senior Gen AI Software Engineer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential AdTech organization seeking a Senior Gen AI Software Engineer to join their AI innovation team. Our client operates a sophisticated performance marketing platform serving thousands of mobile app businesses globally.

In this role, you'll design and build AI-powered products from the ground up, working at the intersection of generative AI, product development, and software engineering. You'll own capabilities end-to-end—from prototyping intelligent workflows to shipping production-ready systems that help teams make better decisions and drive customer growth.

This is a hands-on position for an engineer who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys experimenting with emerging AI technology, and is motivated by turning promising capabilities into products that create measurable business value.

Responsibilities

• Own generative AI product capabilities end-to-end, from understanding user workflows and prototyping solutions through implementation, rollout, measurement, and continuous improvement
• Rapidly prototype and validate AI solutions using focused experiments to test user value and technical feasibility, then transform successful prototypes into production-ready systems
• Build agentic workflows that reason over campaign, customer, creative, and performance data, utilize well-defined tools, produce structured results, and appropriately return control to human operators
• Partner with decision makers and subject matter experts to understand workflows, constraints, and business context, then integrate AI agents into daily operations in practical ways
• Design how AI systems access and use relevant information, including the data, tools, and instructions needed to produce useful, grounded results
• Build production-reliability systems for AI workflows, including tool use, state management, failure recovery, and appropriate boundaries for human review
• Define clear, testable interfaces between models and software to handle uncertain model behavior safely within dependable product systems
• Develop evaluation systems measuring whether AI features accomplish intended tasks using realistic examples and appropriate combinations of automated checks and human judgment
• Build instrumentation to track quality, adoption, business impact, latency, cost, and failure modes in production environments
• Apply appropriate safeguards for customer data, system access, and high-impact workflows
• Build Python services and TypeScript/React interfaces that turn AI capabilities into cohesive products for customer-facing teams
• Evaluate new models and techniques pragmatically, adopting them when they materially improve product quality, capability, speed, or cost
• Mentor other engineers and help establish shared practices for designing, testing, and operating AI-powered products

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• Proven track record building and operating production products, ideally including zero-to-one work spanning backend services, data, and user interfaces
• Demonstrated experience shipping LLM-powered or AI-assisted products beyond demo stage, with understanding of practical challenges including reliability, context, tool use, provider changes, latency, cost, and model behavior variations
• High proficiency in Python and comfort working in TypeScript and React, with strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, SQL, and testing
• Understanding of how to build complete systems around models, including data architecture, tooling, instructions, permissions, feedback loops, and quality measures
• Ability to define success criteria, investigate failures, and use testing, feedback, and production signals to improve AI experiences over time
• Strong product and engineering judgment to determine when problems call for traditional software, LLM-powered approaches, or thoughtful combinations
• Clear communication of complex technical ideas and effective collaboration with domain experts and non-technical partners
• Comfort working through ambiguity, making informed decisions with incomplete information, and pivoting when evidence shows better paths
• Growth mindset with strong but flexible opinions, thriving on constructive feedback

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as an early engineer, startup founder, or in high-ownership environments moving quickly from ambiguous problems to shipped products
• Background in advertising technology, campaign optimization, performance marketing, analytics products, or other data-rich B2B software

Location: This is a remote position available in the following US states: CA, CO, ID, IL, FL, GA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NV, NY, OR, PA, TX, UT, and WA. Pacific Standard Time Zone preferred. Quarterly in-person team gatherings required.

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your qualifications and conduct an initial screening. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the client organization directly—all communication and coordination will flow through our recruiting team to ensure the best experience for all parties.

Pay

Pay via Get A Job.ai will depend on your location and experience within the following ranges:

• SF Bay Area, Los Angeles/Orange County, NYC, Seattle: $230,000 - $270,000
• All other approved locations: $211,000 - $248,000

Our client also provides equity and comprehensive health/vision/dental benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.