Staff AI Engineer
- 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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What this role asks for
Standard for data science / ML roles
LLM · Machine Learning · PyTorch
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Python
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
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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)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Forward Deployed Engineer (YC experience) posted Sep 25
- Lead Software Engineer (YC Experience) posted Aug 14
- Principal Software Engineer (YC Experience) posted Aug 14
- Backend Software Engineer (YC experience) posted Aug 14
- Senior Full-Stack Engineer (YC experience) posted Aug 14
- Staff Software Engineer (YC experience) posted Aug 14
- Lead Product Manager posted Aug 14
- Principal Product Manager posted Aug 14
- Staff Product Manager posted Aug 14
- Founding AI Lead Engineer (YC experience) posted Aug 14
- Principal Founding Product Engineer posted Aug 14
- Lead Product Engineer posted Aug 14
- Principal Founding Product Engineer posted Aug 14
- Staff Founding Product Engineer posted Aug 14
- Lead Member of Technical Staff posted Aug 14
- Member of Technical Staff (YC experience) posted Aug 14
- Senior Member of Technical Staff posted Aug 14
- Principal Forward Deployed Engineer posted Aug 14
- Staff Forward Deployed Engineer posted Aug 14
- Principal Fullstack Engineer (AI) - Boston posted Aug 3
- Senior UI/Frontend Engineer (AI) posted Jul 6
- Principal ML Ops Engineer posted Apr 22
- CUDA Kernel Engineer (Remote US) posted Apr 22
- Senior Engineer (Multicloud) posted Apr 7
- Principal AI/ML Engineer posted Mar 3
From the team and dates on Pragmatike's own job board.
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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