Staff Software Engineer | AI

The role

You will design and build AI-powered features to enhance the 8am suite of products. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and data scientists to bring AI into production.

What you will do

• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to translate business problems into AI-driven solutions.
• Design, implement, and integrate AI features into existing 8am products.
• Partner with the Data team to ensure data is collected, enriched, prepared, and staged for AI consumption.
• Build and evaluate AI-powered services from prototypes to general availability.
• Write high-quality Python code to manipulate data, interact with large language models, and assess performance.
• Develop tools and infrastructure to support reliable, scalable, and secure AI deployment.
• Work with cloud operations team to deploy AI features, monitor impact, and continuously improve them.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven track record of building and deploying production-ready AI/ML services at scale.
• Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks, platforms, evals and related tooling.
• Strong Python or equivalent modern tech stack development skills.
• Familiarity with data manipulation and evaluation workflows.
• Experience building scalable data infrastructure and integrating models into broader SaaS systems.
• Experience working in AWS cloud environments, or equivalent.
• Experience with modern DevOps practices.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation.

Nice to have

• Ideally in full stack SaaS application development or backend

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans
• 100% company-paid HDHP plan for employees
• Annual bonuses
• Equity options
• 401(k) or RRSP with company match
• Flexible Time Off
• Paid holidays
• Parental leave program
• Wellness stipends
• Mental health support
• One-on-one nutrition coaching
• Continuous learning through 8am.edu

About the company

8am (formerly AffiniPay) is a professional business platform built to help legal, accounting, and other client-focused professionals run businesses. It was founded in 2005 and serves more than 250,000 professionals across the U.S.