Full-Stack Software Engineer
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
Zyphra's standard text
Zyphra is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, California.
The Role:
As a Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will be a core contributor to Zyphra’s Agentic Systems and Interaction projects. You will be at the forefront of building a next-generation desktop and browser-based agent (end-to-end) that can autonomously navigate the web, interact with filesystems, and complete complex user tasks. This role spans agentic orchestration, frontend interfaces, secure sandboxing environments, large-scale document search and retrieval, and language/vision model integration.
You’ll Work Across:
- Design and implementation of different agentic system designs capable of interacting with browsers, operating systems, enterprise filesystems, collaboration tools, etc.
- Building search and retrieval pipelines across large-scale structured and unstructured data
- Build the backend layer for RAG systems and other information context management systems required for agents to operate
- Integrating LLMs, vision models, reinforcement learning, and scaffolding frameworks for autonomous, multi-step decision-making
- What matters most is your drive to build production-grade software
- We value velocity and curiosity, especially in fast-moving and ambiguous environments
What We're Looking For / Requirements:
- Proficiency in Python and a deep understanding of building and debugging complex end-to-end applications
- Experience working with SaaS environment and production workloads, web interfaces, databases, search engines, and queuing systems
- Experience developing browser extensions or automation tools with fine-grained control over the browser (mouse, tabs, DOM)
- Understanding of LLMs, prompting techniques, and orchestration frameworks for multi-step reasoning
- Ability to work across the whole stack from web interfaces to control plane and data infrastructure like queuing systems, databases, and search indexes
- Experience designing or working with secure and virtualized execution environments
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across product, research, and engineering teams
Qualifications / Additional Skills:
- Experience building or integrating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems
- Experience working with enterprise security and compliance frameworks (i.e., SOC 2, GDPR, etc.)
- Familiarity with embeddings, vector databases and large-scale document indexing
- Knowledge of web automation tools and headless browser environments (i.e., Puppeteer, Playwright)
- Understanding of sandboxed or containerized compute environments with strict access controls
- Comfort designing user-facing agentic workflows and reasoning systems that span multiple modalities (text, vision, actions)
- Experience using and fine-tuning models for screen reading, OCR, or UI understanding
- Background in HCI or interest in building intuitive agent interfaces that extend human capabilities
- Machine Learning experience as a double bonus
Zyphra's standard text
Why Work at Zyphra:
- Our research methodology is grounded in methodical, step-by-step approaches to ambitious goals. Both deep research and engineering excellence are equally valued
- We strongly value new and crazy ideas and are very willing to bet big on new ideas
- We move as quickly as we can; we aim to minimize the bar to impact as low as possible
- We all enjoy what we do and love discussing AI
Benefits and Perks:
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA plans
- Competitive compensation and 401(k) plan
- Relocation and immigration support on a case-by-case basis
- In-office snacks and meals provided
- Unlimited PTO and company holidays
- In-person team in San Francisco with a collaborative, high-energy environment
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Playwright · RAG · Vector Databases
Rare in Zyphra's other 15 open postings.
In most of Zyphra's ads
Machine Learning · Python
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
83% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Zyphra's standard text, folded away below.
Compared with Zyphra's other open jobs.
The team: Product
This role is one of 4 open in Product.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
LLM (2 of 4), Machine Learning (2 of 4), Playwright (2 of 4), Python (2 of 4), RAG (2 of 4), Vector Databases (2 of 4)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Platform Engineer posted Mar 17
- Lead Frontend Engineer posted Mar 17
- AI Engineer posted Mar 17
From the team and dates on Zyphra's own job board.
Salary context
19 other open postings titled Full-Stack Software Engineer state a salary: median USD 150,000 to USD 225,000 a year.
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