Staff AI Engineer - Paige
About The Position
At Pave, we're building the industry’s leading compensation platform, combining the world's largest real-time compensation dataset with deep expertise in AI and machine learning. Our platform is perfecting the art and science of pay to give 8,500+ companies unparalleled confidence in every compensation decision. Top tier companies like OpenAI, McDonald’s, Instacart, Atlassian, Synopsys, Stripe, Databricks, and Waymo use Pave, transforming every pay decision into a competitive advantage. $190+ billion in total compensation spend is managed in our workflows, and 70% of Forbes AI 50 use Pave to benchmark compensation. The future of pay is real-time & predictive, and we’re making it happen right now. We’ve raised $160M in funding from leading investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Craft Ventures. The Paige Team @ Pave Paige is Pave's AI compensation analyst - an agentic system that sits on top of the world's largest proprietary compensation dataset and Pave's existing workflow engine. Think: autonomous agents that can reason over structured compensation data and execute multi-step workflows (market pricing, cycle planning, attrition analysis) across Pave's platform. In this role, you'll shape the technical vision and execution of Paige, working with a team of engineers and data scientists to build the product end-to-end and take it to market. This role requires deep AI expertise, strong product intuition, and a founder mentality.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience building production systems, with deep hands-on expertise in LLMs, agentic architectures, retrieval systems, and evaluation frameworks
- Strong product intuition. You identify customer problems that AI can uniquely solve and partner with Product to shape what gets built, not just how
- Proven track record leading 0→1 technical initiatives with high ambiguity, driving them from concept to production
- Pragmatic engineering judgment: you know when to move fast and when to invest in quality
- Ability to drive technical alignment across teams. You'll be defining primitives and patterns that other engineers build on, so you need to bring people along
- Founder mentality with bias toward action, ownership, and urgency; you're energized by the challenge of bringing a new AI product to market
Benefits
- equity
- top-notch medical, dental, and vision coverage
- an unlimited PTO policy
- region-specific benefits
- Complete Health Coverage : Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision coverage for you and your family, with plenty of options to suit your needs
- Time off & Flexibility : Flexible PTO and the ability to work from anywhere in the world for a month
- Meals & Snacks : Lunch & dinner stipends as well as fully stocked kitchens to fuel you
- Professional Development : Quarterly education stipend to continuously grow
- Family Support : Robust parental leave to bond with your new family
- Commuter Assistance : A commuter stipend to help you collaborate in person
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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