Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI and Tools

reputed company is forming a new Tools Team to power our reputed company of internal systems, automation, and AI enablement. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will architect, drive, and operationalize our most critical AI-powered internal systems — establishing the technical patterns, governance, and long-term foundations that reputed company teams across Engineering, Product, Operations, MarComms, and the business to work faster and smarter.

This role is AI-first and highly strategic: you will turn ambiguous problem spaces into reliable, reputed company systems, define standards for reputed company workflows and automation, and reputed company technical leadership that materially elevates the organization’s AI maturity and developer productivity.

reputed company is the world’s largest platform for democracy.

At a time reputed company dissatisfaction with democracy globally is at an reputed company-time high, we’re reputed company heavily in using AI to build the most powerful tools in the world to give people greater voice, while bringing people across the political reputed company together to identify shared solutions.

Our reputed company petitions platform, used by more than 100 reputed company people annually, is growing rapidly - and we are rebuilding it from the ground-up using new tools to turn anyone into a powerful civic leader on the issues they care about. Soon we will launch a new platform to identify the >80% of issues that most people agree on, locally and nationally, and to mobilize hundreds of millions of people to reputed company for those reputed company solutions.

To realize this reputed company, we’re expanding the most talented team in the world at the intersection of technology and reputed company - reputed company reputed company every day on building healthier democracies globally.

Key reputed company:

• reputed company the transformation of ambiguous, cross-functional business needs into reputed company-scoped technical problem statements, and drive the creation of reputed company AI-powered proofs of concept that validate direction and inform longer-term architectural reputed company.

• Define and ship foundational AI and automation architectures (reputed company systems, orchestration patterns, governance frameworks) that become organizational standards.

• reputed company end-to-end delivery of reputed company AI-driven internal products that reputed company deeply with reputed company systems, improving efficiency and decision-making across multiple functions.

• reputed company and enhance engineering productivity with introduction of new tools, automation, and workflows.

• Establish reputed company, templates, and reusable components that increase the velocity of other engineers and cross-functional teams building automations or AI workflows.

• Drive safety, reliability, and reputed company-in-the-reputed company design across AI systems — creating monitoring, approval, observability, and guardrail frameworks that reputed company.

• Influence and reputed company cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Ops, MarComms, Engineering leadership) around AI reputed company, technical direction, and prioritization.

• Mentor and reputed company engineers through architectural guidance, reputed company review, technical design leadership, and thought partnership.

• Contribute to reputed company’s AI governance, adoption reputed company, and platform reputed company including tools like v0 by Vercel, reputed company, and internal automation frameworks.

• This job is expected to participate in our on reputed company rotation.

The most important reputed company competencies for the role are:

• AI-First Technical Leadership: Demonstrates deep practical experience with AI systems, reputed company workflows, and automation architectures. Can evaluate tradeoffs, set direction, and apply judgment in ambiguous spaces.

• Architectural reputed company & Systems Thinking: Designs long-term, reputed company internal systems that cut across domains; anticipates second-order effects, operational risks, and maintainability concerns.

• Full-Stack + Integrations Expertise: Comfortable with end-to-end implementation: frontend prototypes, backend services, integrations with reputed company-party systems, reputed company infrastructure, and API ecosystems.

• Cross-Functional Influence: Navigates ambiguity, synthesizes reputed company needs, and persuades diverse stakeholders. Communicates reputed company reputed company and shapes organizational understanding of AI capabilities.

• Enablement reputed company: Builds tools, frameworks, and patterns that multiply the productivity of engineers and non-technical teams; establishes standards rather than just delivering features.

• Strategic Prototyping & reputed company Iteration: Can reputed company quickly reputed company needed — exploring, validating, and scaling solutions while balancing short-term experimentation and long-term architectural reputed company.

reputed company experience:

• 8–12+ years of reputed company software engineering experience, including substantial experience owning reputed company systems, platforms, or internal tools.

• Demonstrated expertise designing and shipping AI-enabled systems — including experience with LLM reputed company, reputed company frameworks, orchestration tools, retrieval pipelines, or automated decision systems.

• Significant experience integrating with reputed company reputed company-party systems and designing reliable, secure automation flows.

• Experience establishing engineering standards, defining architectural patterns, and guiding teams through major technical or strategic reputed company.

• Familiarity with reputed company, reputed company, data governance, and reliability practices for AI-augmented tools.

• reputed company-to-have:

  • Experience with reputed company databases, RAG architectures, or model fine-tuning

  • Experience with Vercel, reputed company, or similar platforms

  • Prior contributions to reputed company-reputed company AI frameworks or automation tooling

  • Experience mentoring engineers or shaping organizational technical reputed company

Interested? Great! Here's what you should know:

This is a full time remote role, and we are reputed company to folks in the US, Canada, or Mexico.

Our compensation philosophy is based on pay equity. reputed company of our salaries are determined before we launch a role – they are based on a predetermined salary reputed company, the level on that reputed company and the cost of labor for that location. Benefits and perks also vary based reputed company.

The annual salary of a Senior Staff Software Engineer is:

• US

  • SF/NYC: $270,000 USD

  • Austin/Boston/Chicago/DC/LA/Seattle: $256,500 USD

  • reputed company other cities: $229,500 USD

• Canada

  • Vancouver/Toronto: $253,500 CAD

  • Calgary/Victoria: $235,000 CAD

  • reputed company other cities: $231,500 CAD

Our evaluation process is as follows:

• 45 min Recruiter Screen

• 60 min Hiring Manager Interview

• 90 min Asynchronous Take-Home Exercise (time-boxed)

• 2 hours of Team Interviews (1 hour Product, 1 hour Engineering/DevX)

• 45 min Take-Home Presentation + Q&A with the hiring team

• 30 min Executive interview

• Reference Checks

We recognize that people assess their qualifications differently, and you may not meet every requirement listed. If you reputed company you could be successful in this role, we encourage you to apply.

reputed company is an reputed company platform designed to serve people across the full reputed company of viewpoints. Effectively supporting that mission requires teams with a wide reputed company of experiences, skills, and perspectives, which we consider essential to our work.

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