Senior Software Engineer, Agent

The role

You will work on Pave's AI compensation analyst, an agentic system that reasons over proprietary compensation data. You will shape technical vision and execution by working with engineers and data scientists to build the product end-to-end.

What you will do

• Shape the technical vision and execution
• Work with a team of engineers and data scientists to build the product end-to-end
• Identify customer problems that AI can uniquely solve
• Partner with Product to shape what gets built
• Drive 0 to 1 technical initiatives from concept to production
• Drive technical alignment across teams
• Define primitives and patterns that other engineers build on

Required qualifications

• 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 to 1 technical initiatives with high ambiguity
• Pragmatic engineering judgment
• Ability to drive technical alignment across teams
• Founder mentality with bias toward action, ownership, and urgency

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Unlimited PTO
• Region-specific benefits
• Work from anywhere in the world for up to a month
• Lunch and dinner stipends
• Fully stocked kitchens
• Quarterly education stipend
• Robust parental leave
• Commuter stipend

Before you apply

• Pave uses automated tools, including AI-based fraud detection, to verify applicant identity

About the company

Pave is building a compensation platform combining a real-time compensation dataset with AI and machine learning. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with regional hubs in New York City, Salt Lake City, Kraków, and the United Kingdom.