Staff AI Engineer
About The Position
Sayari is looking for a Staff AI Engineer to help build our platform. An ideal candidate is a process-oriented self-starter with extensive experience in the software engineering world and interested in working on problems related to corporate transparency, anti money laundering, sanctions evasions, and combating financial fraud.If you are passionate about open source development and innovative technology, with a strong background in web development and engineering leadership, then we strongly encourage you to apply. As Staff AI Engineer, you will lead implementation of one of the application team squads, overseeing that team's deliverables, architecting solutions, and ensuring code quality and maintainability, all while working closely with the product team and engineering leadership to ensure alignment with the product's roadmap.
Requirements
- 10+ years of industry experience in software development, including experience as an IC and a mentor/lead.
- Hands-on experience building production applications with LLMs (Prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, or agentic workflows).
- Deep understanding and proficiency with SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and/or Cypher-based graph databases
- Proficiency in TypeScript and backend web development (REST APIs)
- Experience managing software in cloud environments (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
- Experience conducting code reviews and unit testing
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Graph databases and query optimization for large-scale data.
- Experience working on both front end and back end code bases
- Experience with container orchestration via Kubernetes
- Interest in data visualization, or how to visually present large, complex datasets
- Exposure to batch processing frameworks like Spark
Responsibilities
- Architect classical and AI powered solutions that are robust, scalable, and thoroughly tested. Contribute directly to expanding the functionality and performance of our code base.
- Collaborate with our Product and Design teams to evolve our platform roadmap, ensuring product goals are translated into tractable features that appropriately reflect our application's data model and capabilities. Identify capacity constraints to inform development sequencing and prioritization.
- Lead technical architecture decisions for AI features, balancing research ambitions with production reliability
- Establish evaluation frameworks and best practices for working with large language models in high-stakes, accuracy-critical domains
- Act as a multiplier for the engineering team through hands-on mentoring, deep code reviews, and technical training on AI skillsets
Benefits
- 100% fully paid medical, vision, and dental for employees and their dependents
- Generous time off; we observe all US federal holidays, close our office for a winter break (12/24-12/31), in addition to granting 18 PTO days and 10 sick days
- Outstanding compensation package; competitive commissions for revenue roles and bonuses for non-revenue positions
- A strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Eligibility to participate in additional benefits such as 401k match up to 5%, 100% paid life insurance (up to $100,000 coverage),, and parental leave
- A collaborative and positive culture - your team will be as smart and driven as you
- Limitless growth and learning opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
