Emergence Capital Partners

Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI

San Francisco. Posted 10 months ago

The role

You will design, build, and ship AI-powered product features from concept to production. You will develop LLM-based systems and work directly with customers to translate workflows into product decisions.

What you will do

  • Design, build, and ship AI-powered product features from concept through production deployment
  • Develop and maintain LLM-based systems including RAG pipelines, agents, and workflow automation
  • Build evaluation frameworks and monitoring systems to ensure AI quality and reliability
  • Work directly with customers to understand problems, gather feedback, and validate solutions
  • Collaborate with product and design to define roadmap and prioritize features based on impact
  • Optimize system performance, cost, and latency as usage scales
  • Contribute to technical architecture decisions and establish engineering best practices

Required qualifications

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience
  • 1-2 years building AI/ML-powered products
  • Strong proficiency in Python
  • Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript for full-stack development
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs in production: prompt engineering, RAG systems, fine-tuning, or agent frameworks
  • Solid understanding of ML fundamentals: embeddings, vector databases, evaluation metrics, and model selection
  • Experience building and maintaining production systems with high reliability requirements
  • Strong product intuition
  • Ability to translate ambiguous user needs into concrete technical solutions
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Comfort working directly with customers and stakeholders
  • BS/MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

  • Experience with AI infrastructure: LangChain, LlamaIndex, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma)
  • Background in NLP, information retrieval, or search systems
  • Previous startup experience, especially as an early engineer or technical co-founder
  • Domain expertise in financial services, legal, healthcare, or other enterprise SaaS verticals
  • Contributions to open-source AI/ML projects
  • Experience building developer tools or platforms

About the company

emergence-capital-partners is building AI products that solve real problems for real customers.