Staff Software Engineer, AI
About The Position
As an AI Staff Engineer you'll play a crucial role in developing and refining our product’s AI. You'll report directly to our VP of Engineering and work closely with our engineering and product teams to enhance our AI capabilities and drive innovation in our fin-tech AI platform. BlackLine is committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance. Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a Full Stack Software Engineer or a similar role developing, shipping, and testing of software within a well-established enterprise, bonus points if at a fast growth enterprise
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
- Demonstrated experience working with production LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.) including handling rate limits, cost optimization, and performance monitoring in live systems (not just vibe coding)
- Clear experience utilizing frameworks like RAG in production applications to further enhance the foundational models for proprietary applications and datasets
- Experience with AI system testing methodologies including model evaluation, A/B testing of AI features, and monitoring model performance in production
- Experience with data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes (given our data-intensive AI workflows)
Nice To Haves
- Prior working experience with appliances such as firewalls, routers and load balancers.
Responsibilities
- Utilize the best-in-class models available on the market to deliver meaningful solutions for our clients, bringing them from the idea stage all the way to production
- Collaborate with the team to integrate AI solutions into our existing production processes
- Design and implement scalable AI system architecture handling including model orchestration, caching strategies, and fallback mechanisms
- Evaluate and implement new AI technologies and methodologies to keep WiseLayer and BlackLine at the cutting edge
Benefits
- short-term and long-term incentive programs
- robust offering of benefit and wellness plans
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
