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Senior Software Engineer, Agent

Pave
Location
San Francisco, CA & New York, NY
Posted
18 days ago
Department
Engineering
Salary
$195,500 - $264,500
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 7+ years of experience building production systems
  • Deep hands-on expertise in LLMs, agentic architectures, retrieval systems, and evaluation frameworks
  • Strong product intuition
  • Proven track record leading 0→1 technical initiatives
  • Pragmatic engineering judgment
  • Ability to drive technical alignment across teams
What the job really is

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Agent Team at Pave, you will develop an AI compensation analyst system that leverages a large proprietary compensation dataset. Your responsibilities include shaping the technical vision, collaborating with engineers and data scientists, and driving the product from concept to market, requiring expertise in AI and strong product intuition.

Benefits
  • Meaningful equity
  • Best-in-class medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Flexible work-from-anywhere policy for up to a month
  • Lunch and dinner stipends
  • Fully stocked kitchens
Things to weigh
  • Role requires deep AI expertise and a founder mentality
  • High level of ambiguity in driving initiatives from concept to production
  • No specific technologies or tools mentioned, which may indicate flexibility or vagueness in tech stack
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