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TruckSmarterTruckSmarterSan Francisco, CA

Staff AI Product Engineer

Staff AI Product Engineer architects and scales core systems and AI platforms for a trucking dispatch product, owning end-to-end feature delivery, mentoring engineers, and influencing product strategy. Requires 8+ years experience in production software and scalable systems.

220k – 280k/yr
On-site8+ YOEFullstack Engineering

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Partner with product, design, and engineering to turn ambiguous problems into clear technical plans and scalable architectures
  • Own end-to-end design and delivery of complex, cross-cutting features across product, infrastructure, reliability, and AI-powered systems
  • Define and evolve the architecture for core systems and AI platforms that are fast, resilient, and built to scale
  • Raise the bar for quality, observability, performance, and iteration
  • Make architectural decisions that influence how we build for years, balancing speed with long-term maintainability
  • Lead technical reviews and give high-leverage feedback through code reviews, design docs, and system-level guidance
  • Mentor and unblock engineers; help the team move faster by improving systems, tooling, and execution patterns

What We're Looking For

  • 8+ years building and shipping production software, including leading large projects end-to-end
  • A track record of architecting scalable systems and making principled tradeoffs across product, reliability, and velocity
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence without relying on org structure
  • Comfort navigating fast-moving environments with shifting priorities and imperfect information

Skills

AIScalable ArchitecturesSystem DesignMentoringCode ReviewObservabilityProduction SoftwareInfrastructureReliability Engineering
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