Software engineer, generative AI
Remote • San Francisco, CA • FullTime
Posted 11h ago
Job Location
San Francisco, CA
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
WRITER is a company that empowers leading enterprises to orchestrate AI-powered work, with a vision to expand human capacity through superintelligence. Their platform enables companies to build and deploy AI agents grounded in their data and fueled by enterprise-grade LLMs. This role is for a software engineer focused on generative AI, building the secure and scalable foundation for these solutions within complex corporate environments. The position is ideal for an engineering generalist with a strong generative AI focus and a whole-systems mindset, who enjoys owning projects from proposal to deployment.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop robust, secure, and scalable generative AI services and applications using Python and modern frameworks.
- Build and optimize high-performance, low-latency APIs and microservices to integrate AI models and agentic workflows.
- Make system design decisions and own the architecture of core platform components from proposal to production deployment.
- Implement and maintain responsive user interfaces using technologies like React and TypeScript.
- Communicate changes, plans, and proposals to cross-functional teams and collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and DevOps engineers.
- Partner with DevOps teams to build continuous deployment, logging, and monitoring systems for distributed workloads.
Requirements
- 3-5+ years of hands-on experience as a software engineer with a strong emphasis on Python development in production environments.
- Proven expertise in building and deploying generative AI applications, leveraging LLMs, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector), and agentic frameworks.
- Practical experience with microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Solid grasp of modern web technologies including FastAPI, Asyncio, PostgreSQL, and AI developer tooling (Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot).
- Exposure to enterprise architecture including IAM, SSO, SAML, OAuth, OIDC, RBAC, and security best practices.
- A collaborative mindset, a spirit for tackling complex technical hurdles, and accountability for delivering high-quality code.
Benefits
- Generous PTO, plus company holidays
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Paid parental leave (16 weeks)
- Fertility and family planning support
- Early-detection cancer testing
- Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options
- Health savings account with company contribution
- Annual work-life stipends (Wellness, Learning and development)
- Company-wide and team off-sites
- Competitive compensation
- Company stock options
- 401k