# Staff AI Product Engineer

**Company:** [TruckSmarter](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/trucksmarter)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $220k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** AI, Scalable Architectures, System Design, Mentoring, Code Review, Observability, Production Software, Infrastructure, Reliability Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-03-31

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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