Member Of Technical Staff
US$130,000 – US$220,000 / yr base salary
Posted 16 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Senior Member of Technical Staff”
BranchFactor Summary
The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered
| Base salary | US$130,000 – US$220,000 / yr |
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About the Role
Join a small engineering team building AI systems for hospitality operations. You will own full-stack components that help AI agents understand guest requests, find reliable information, use tools, and resolve issues or escalate them when needed.
What You'll Do
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Build response-generation pipelines for intent classification, context assembly, tool selection, and escalation decisions.
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Develop retrieval systems that ground responses in accurate, current customer information.
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Create reliable multi-step tool workflows and handle third-party API failures.
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Build evaluation frameworks using real conversations to measure quality and catch regressions.
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Implement observability and tracing that help support teams understand system behavior.
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Develop interfaces that let non-technical users adjust agent behavior.
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Extend agent capabilities to voice, including real-time transcription and tool use.
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Improve speed and cost through model routing, caching, and prompt refinement, while contributing to infrastructure, data pipelines, integrations, and APIs.
What We're Looking For
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At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including 3 or more years building production systems used by real people.
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Substantive startup or founder experience shipping real products.
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Experience designing and debugging production AI systems, especially retrieval pipelines, prompt engineering, and model orchestration.
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Strong retrieval experience, such as knowledge bases, ranking, context validation, or semantic search, plus methods for evaluating production systems.
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Experience with multi-step workflows, tool orchestration or function calling, and observability or debugging for complex pipelines.
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Proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, Rust, or Java, and the ability to work across multiple layers of the stack.
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Experience integrating third-party APIs and managing production failure modes; experience with real-time systems, voice, user-facing controls, or model cost and latency optimization is valuable.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary is $130,000 to $220,000 annually, with equity of 0.20% to 1.20%. Benefits include health insurance and a 401(k) match. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California.