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Pragmatike

Staff AI Engineer

San Francisco
Salary
$200K - $400K
Level
Staff
Work type
Remote · US only

Not stated in the posting: visa.

Open. First seen 2 October 2026.

About the role

Location: United States — Remote
Compensation: $200,000–$350,000 USD
Start Date: ASAP
Languages: Fluent English required
Type: Full-time

About the Opportunity

Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a fast-growing technology company building critical infrastructure that powers high-volume, real-time business operations across multiple systems and platforms.

We are seeking a Staff AI Engineer to lead the design and deployment of production AI systems at scale.

What You'll Do

  • Lead architecture for production AI systems.
  • Design model serving, inference, evaluation, and optimization pipelines.
  • Improve model latency, throughput, quality, and cost.
  • Lead technical AI initiatives across multiple teams.
  • Establish engineering standards for AI development and deployment.
  • Mentor AI engineers.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering leadership on AI strategy.
  • Evaluate emerging models and infrastructure technologies.

What We're Looking For

  • 7+ years of engineering or ML experience.
  • Deep Python and ML engineering expertise.
  • Strong production LLM experience.
  • Strong distributed systems and system design skills.
  • Experience optimizing inference systems.
  • Strong technical leadership and communication.

Nice to Have

  • vLLM, TGI, Triton, CUDA, PyTorch.
  • Kubernetes and GPU infrastructure.
  • RAG and fine-tuning.
  • AI agents.
  • High-scale AI production environments.

Why Join?

Our client is building highly scalable technology that sits at the core of critical business operations, offering engineers the opportunity to work on complex systems, large-scale integrations, and real-world technical challenges.

You'll join a collaborative, fast-moving environment where ownership is encouraged, decisions are made quickly, and engineers have meaningful influence on architecture, product direction, and engineering culture.

This role offers the opportunity to tackle challenging backend problems, work with modern technologies, and grow alongside an ambitious team building for scale.

Full benefit package and competitive compensation.

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Pragmatike is committed to a fair, transparent, and inclusive recruitment process. We do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

In accordance with GDPR, your personal data will be processed lawfully, fairly, and securely, and used solely for recruitment purposes, including sharing it with our client(s) for employment consideration. You may request access, correction, or deletion of your data at any time. We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality and security of your information throughout the recruitment process.

What this role asks for

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LLM · Machine Learning · PyTorch

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Python

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The team: NAM HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 26 open in NAM. 1 was posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Kubernetes (15 of 26), Python (12 of 26), TypeScript (12 of 26), Machine Learning (11 of 26), Golang (10 of 26), LLM (7 of 26), Generative AI (6 of 26)

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Salary context

13 other open postings titled Staff AI Engineer state a salary: median USD 210,000 to USD 275,000 a year.

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