# Senior Software Engineer, Agent

**Company:** [Pave](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pave)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $196k – $265k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** LLMs, Agentic Architectures, Retrieval Systems, Evaluation Frameworks, Production Systems, Ai Product Development, Technical Leadership
**Posted:** 2026-09-02

> Senior software engineer responsible for building production AI systems, leading ambiguous 0-to-1 initiatives, and defining reusable technical patterns. The role requires 7+ years of experience, deep LLM and agentic architecture expertise, strong product intuition, and cross-team technical leadership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build production systems involving LLMs, agentic architectures, retrieval systems, and evaluation frameworks.
- Identify customer problems that AI can uniquely solve and partner with Product to shape product direction.
- Lead ambiguous 0-to-1 technical initiatives from concept through production.
- Define technical primitives and patterns for other engineers to build on.
- Drive technical alignment across teams and bring stakeholders along.
- Apply pragmatic engineering judgment, balancing speed and quality.
- Own initiatives with urgency and a bias toward action.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of experience building production systems.
- Deep hands-on expertise with LLMs, agentic architectures, retrieval systems, and evaluation frameworks.
- Strong product intuition and ability to identify AI-enabled customer opportunities.
- Proven experience leading 0-to-1 technical initiatives.
- Ability to drive cross-team technical alignment.
- Founder mentality, ownership, and urgency.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Targeted cash compensation: $195,500–$264,500.
- Meaningful equity.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Unlimited PTO and flexible work-from-anywhere flexibility for up to one month.
- Lunch and dinner stipends, stocked kitchens, quarterly education stipend, parental leave, and commuter stipend.

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