# AI Staff Software Engineer
**Company:** [PromptQL](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/promptql)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $250K-$500K
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Python, LLMs, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Cloud Infrastructure, APIs, Systems Programming
**Posted:** 2025-06-24
> Staff AI Software Engineer builds and scales AI systems including PromptQL AI assistant, data engine, and runtime infrastructure for enterprise reliability. Requires 6+ years experience with AI/ML, distributed systems, LLMs, Python fluency, and technical leadership.
## Job Description
## Role Requirements
- 6+ years of experience as a software engineer, with at least 1+ years building AI or ML-powered systems
- Designed and shipped complex distributed systems at scale, and know how to optimize for performance, cost, and reliability
- Worked directly with large language models (LLMs) in production
- Fluent in Python and/or a systems language, and can move comfortably between infrastructure, APIs, and core product logic
- Comfortable leading technically: writing high-leverage design docs, setting engineering direction, and mentoring other senior engineers
- Biased toward action and can operate with high autonomy; know how to unblock yourself and others
- Care about quality, safety, and performance; bring a systems-level perspective to how engineering decisions impact the product and user

## Responsibilities
- Write production code, design architecture, optimize performance, shape infrastructure, and contribute to safety mechanisms
- Build core stack, rapidly design and implement features across the PromptQL AI assistant, the PromptQL data engine, and the PromptQL runtime infrastructure

## Compensation
- Salary $250,000 - $500,000
- Annual bonus
- Large equity package
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