Plaud

Staff Engineer, Engineering-wide

San Francisco, CA, Remote. Posted 5 days ago

The role

This senior individual contributor role rotates across product, platform, and infrastructure teams to solve high-leverage engineering problems. You will design, build, and ship production code while leading technical designs that cross team boundaries.

What you will do

  • Rotate across product, platform and infrastructure teams based on business needs
  • Solve hard problems like migrations, reliability, slow CI pipelines, or AI quality gaps
  • Design, build, review and ship production code
  • Lead technical designs that cross team boundaries
  • Raise the engineering bar in testing, observability, runbooks, code review, and evals
  • Build an end-to-end understanding of the whole system to guide architecture decisions
  • Mentor senior engineers in the US and Asia
  • Explore and drive AI-native engineering practice

Required qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience
  • 3+ years at Staff level or equivalent scope
  • Deep expertise in more than one area such as backend distributed systems, mobile or client, data pipelines, or ML/LLM systems
  • Proven track record leading technical work across teams
  • Strong in Go or Python
  • At least one client stack (iOS, Android, React or Electron)
  • Cloud-native experience (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes)
  • Experience shipping LLM features in production, including retrieval, prompt pipelines, evals, and managing latency and cost
  • Excellent written communication
  • Comfort working across time zones and cultures
  • Low ego and high ownership
  • Routinely uses AI tools in daily work and can demo usage from the last two weeks during the interview

Nice to have

  • Recognized technical influence through open-source contributions, highly starred GitHub repositories, conference talks or technical publications

Benefits

  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
  • Access to best-in-class AI tools including Gemini, Claude Code, and other frontier AI systems
  • Choice of top-spec laptops, high-performance workstation setups, and cutting-edge Plaud devices
  • Annual company offsites
  • Team events

About the company

Plaud is a San Francisco-based company building the real-world AI interface for professionals to amplify intelligence and productivity. It is a bootstrapped, profitable company with a $300M revenue run rate.