Senior/Staff Software Engineer

As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer at AI Accelerated, you will play a crucial role in owning the end-to-end delivery of production systems in an AI-first environment. Your responsibilities will include framing problems, writing clear specifications with acceptance criteria, and utilizing AI coding tools to enhance architecture, correctness, and maintainability. You will also be responsible for engineering verification through various testing methodologies and designing robust architectures to ensure reliability and scalability. Key Responsibilities: - Frame problems and write specifications with clear acceptance criteria, non-goals, and constraints. - Use AI coding tools as force multipliers while owning architecture and maintainability. - Engineer verification through property-based tests, mutation testing, and CI gates. - Design robust architectures including modular boundaries, versioning, retries/backoff, and feature flags. - Build data and knowledge foundations, ensuring quality checks and pragmatic embeddings. - Operate AI features by monitoring drift, implementing guardrails, and incorporating human-in-the-loop feedback. - Harden security and safety by developing threat models, enforcing least privilege access, and ensuring I/O validation. - Optimize performance and cost through profiling, caching, and setting cost budgets. - Instrument reliability by defining SLIs/SLOs, structured logging, and implementing circuit breakers. Qualifications Required: - Senior/Staff-level impact demonstrated through shipped, operating software. - Evidence of product judgment and taste in API/UX design. - Track record of rapid domain learning and making decisions under ambiguity. - Comfortable supervising AI coding tools and ensuring quality, security, and reliability. Additionally, AI Accelerated is an equal opportunity employer that values diverse perspectives. If you are exceptional but do not meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. Please note that the application process for this role involves completing a take-home project and submitting your GitHub repository along with your CV using the provided Google form.,