Applied AI Software Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 16 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Strong offering due to competitive salary, significant responsibilities in AI development, and opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies.
- Competitive salary: $150,000 – $180,000/year
- Leadership and influence over R&D projects
- Work with cutting-edge technologies in a fast-paced environment
Pros
- Competitive salary ranging from $150,000 to $180,000 annually
- Opportunity to influence R&D projects and technical architecture
- Work with advanced AI technologies including LLMs
Cons
- High experience requirement (6+ years)
- Fast-paced environment may lead to pressure
Who it's for
Senior / Expert • Remote
Good fit
- Senior software engineers with AI experience
- Individuals looking to shape tech architecture
- Professionals seeking to innovate in AI
Not recommended for
- Entry-level engineers or fresh graduates
- Individuals preferring traditional corporate structures
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
• Work closely with our R&D business unit to research, plan, design, prototype, and build the future of FOSSA
• Own user-impacting functionality from conception to completion
• Build and scale the most valuable prototypes into production
• Have significant ownership in our technical architecture and R&D roadmap
• Primarily work in Typescript, but touch a variety of codebases in other languages, such as Rust, Haskell, or Go
• Contribute to structured analysis of various languages (Java, Python, others) our customers use
• Experiment with LLMs and context engineering and benchmark the results to ensure we accomplish maximal value and consistency from them
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience working as a backend or fullstack engineer
- Experience working on greenfield projects as part of small teams
- Experience building and deploying software in high-velocity environments
- Experience building and supporting scalable SaaS products and features
- Experience with relational databases and writing performant SQL queries
- Experience interacting with LLM APIs as a service
- Enjoy combining the latest technologies and tools with best practices to accelerate development
- Passionate about getting creative with AI to work around its shortcomings in creating automated solutions to complex problems
- Interest in the art of programming languages (design, compilers and syntax parsing, etc)
- You're comfortable navigating complex domains and building intuitive software for them
- You thrive in an environment that prefers prototypes over proposals
- Proactive in sharing ideas and informed opinions with others
- Attention to detail and quality to anticipate edge cases ahead of time
- A growth mindset and willingness to learn new things.
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Hard Skills
- Typescript
- Rust
- Haskell
- Go
- Java
- Python
- SQL
- LLM APIs
- SaaS
- prototyping
Soft Skills
- proactive
- attention to detail
- growth mindset
- creativity
- collaboration
- communication
- problem-solving
- adaptability
- ownership
- intuitive design
