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Role: Sr Python AI Engineer/Architect
Location: Mission District-SF, CA Onsite role
Full-Time Position
Technical Stack
* TypeScript and Python are primary languages; experience with web stack and Chrome extensions beneficial.
* Focus on enabling AI tools and infrastructure for rapid development.
Seniority
* 5+ years of experience in platform engineering.
Work experience
* Has shipped and maintained production platform infrastructure in a B2B SaaS environment -CI/CD, Kubernetes, containerization, cloud deployments, database migrations; has made painful mistakes and learned from them
* Startup experience post-Series A; ideally has seen a company grow from Series A-B
You're a great fit if you have:
* Built and scaled complex infrastructure systems
* Worked with Kubernetes, ETL pipelines, AWS/GCP/Cloudflare, CI/CD, and SOC 2 environments
* Strong judgment across security, reliability, cost, and iteration-speed tradeoffs
* Been operating at the edge of AI-first development for some time
* Learned practical lessons from decades of enterprise-grade engineering patterns
* Strong opinions on how old systems should be improved or replaced
* High ownership and comfort working across many domains
What you'll do:
* Build internal platforms and AI loops that increase company iteration speed
* Strengthen security, compliance, and operational readiness
* Improve CI/CD, testing, deployments, and developer environments
* Evaluate and implement new tooling, storage, and compute systems
* Enable non-technical staff to build and ship improvements safely
* Enable technical teams to ship scalable, enterprise-ready systems faster
* Resolve incidents and production fires with both immediate fixes and long-term solutions