Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI

Webflow

89d • $154,200 - $247,700

About The Position

At Webflow, our mission is to bring development superpowers to everyone. As the pioneer of the Website Experience Platform (WXP), we’re redefining how teams Build, Manage, and Optimize for the web — combining visual development, powerful content management systems, AI-driven personalization, seamless hosting, and end-to-end analytics in a single, unified platform. With AI at the core, Webflow helps teams move faster, create more performant digital experiences, and scale without heavy engineering support. From independent designers and creative agencies to global enterprises, hundreds of thousands of organizations use Webflow to turn ideas into reality — and to power what’s possible on the web. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Applied AI team to help us build generative AI-powered features. The Applied AI team’s goal is to enhance speed, creativity, and quality when building and designing websites through the power of AI, in pursuit of our mission to bring development superpowers to everyone around the world. This role will collaborate directly with product and ML engineers, product managers and designers to identify and implement AI solutions that improve the Webflow user experience, while cultivating an environment of excellence, care, and curiosity.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience with a proven track record of shipping code to build consumer-facing web products.
• 2+ years of experience building products that depend critically on AI/ML.
• Development experience with Node.js, React, TypeScript and a deep, foundational understanding of web technologies more broadly.
• Proficient with AI concepts and technologies, including large language models, fine tuning, vector databases and prompt engineering.
• Strong understanding of web development best practices and principles, including responsive design, web performance metrics and accessibility standards.
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Take pride in taking ownership and driving projects to business impact.

Nice To Haves

• Passionate about AI and the opportunities unlocked by recent advancements, and want to contribute to building great user experiences on top of these technologies.
• Love thinking through large technical problems and working through that complexity on a collaborative, distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and design for features that integrate with large language models, diffusion models etc.
• Consider the impact of technical decisions not just on your immediate team, but also across features and teams working on similar problems.
• Hold a high bar for technical quality of AI features at Webflow while taking a pragmatic approach to delivering value to users incrementally.
• Stay up-to-date on AI/ML advancements to assess their relevance for the organization's strategy.
• Collaborate with product engineering to identify and implement AI solutions that improve user experience and solve specific use cases.
• Develop and maintain user interfaces that integrate AI models and algorithms.
• Assist in developing and integrating third-party AI APIs into the product's architecture.
• Develop a deep understanding of our architecture and codebase while also learning about our product and the customers that use it.
• Build quality feedback tooling, including traditional software unit and integration tests as well as AI specific evaluations and quality measurements.

Benefits

• Equity ownership (RSUs) in a growing, privately-owned company.
• 100% employer-paid healthcare, vision, and dental insurance coverage for full-time employees and their dependents.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both birthing and non-birthing caregivers.
• Flexible PTO for all locations and sabbatical program.
• Access to mental wellness and professional coaching, therapy, and Employee Assistance Program.
• Monthly stipends to support work and wellness.
• 401k plan or pension schemes in countries where statutorily required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior