# Senior Software Engineer - Domestic Wires

**Company:** [Mercury](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mercury)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $201k – $251k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Haskell, LLMs, Prompt Engineering, Agentic Workflows, Eval Infrastructure, System Prompts, Streaming Frontend, Tool Schemas, Model Tuning
**Posted:** 2026-06-26

> Senior engineer building and scaling Mercury's LLM-powered financial assistant Command. Owns full-stack AI product development from system prompts and agentic workflows to eval infrastructure and production reliability.

## Job Description

## What you'll do

**Ship new capabilities users love:**
- Design and ship new Command skills, the domain-specific instruction sets that teach the model how to handle workflows like sending money, managing invoices, and understanding cash flow
- Design and build agentic workflows in Command, defining the architecture for how multi-step agent interactions should work as we extend what the product can do on a customer's behalf
- Work with backend teams to define tool schemas for new capabilities, shaping the data contracts between Mercury's business logic and the model
- Own new capabilities end to end, from the system prompt to the frontend component that renders the response

**Own the LLM layer:**
- Maintain and evolve Command's prompt architecture: the system prompt, skill loading system, session context, and the policy and compliance layers underneath
- Tune model behavior: reasoning effort, prompt caching strategy, fallback chains, and the streaming patterns that make the product feel fast
- Stay current with how models are evolving and bring that knowledge back to how Command is built

**Build quality in:**
- Write and expand Command's eval harness, adding cases that cover new capabilities and scoring rubrics that detect regressions before users do
- Partner with product and compliance teams to define what "working correctly" means for each new capability, then build the tests that prove it
- Own the reliability and quality of what you ship, from initial design through post-launch monitoring

## The ideal candidate
- Has 7 or more years of software engineering experience, with deep technical expertise building and scaling LLM-powered applications in production
- Has gone beyond shipping a first version: you have scaled an LLM-powered product, dealt with the reliability and performance problems that come with real usage, and made it better over time
- Has experience designing agentic systems and has opinions about how to architect multi-step workflows that are reliable, explainable, and safe to run on behalf of real users
- Has built eval infrastructure and can write cases that actually measure whether the product works, not just whether the model outputs something plausible
- Understands the real tradeoffs in LLM deployments: latency, cost, compliance, and what breaks in production that doesn't show up in demos
- Has opinions about what makes an AI product trustworthy, not just impressive, and can build toward that bar
- Is comfortable with TypeScript and willing to learn Haskell for backend tool work, or already comfortable with both
- Can work across the full stack of an AI product, from the system prompt to the streaming frontend
- Has a track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of their team

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