Staff Software Engineer, AI Foundations

Job description

About the role You'll own and evolve the technical foundations that power all of Gamma's AI features, building the tools and frameworks that enable engineers across the company to ship high-quality AI experiences at scale. This means developing our AI quality and correctness evals, maintaining our LLM prompt composition framework (AIJSX), establishing reliability and observability systems, and architecting model routing infrastructure. Your work will compound across every AI feature we ship. As a Staff Engineer focused on AI Foundations, you'll balance hands-on engineering with strategic leadership. You'll ship production code while maintaining strategic perspective, focusing on high-leverage, technically challenging work. You'll elevate engineering quality across the team through code review and mentorship, proactively identify opportunities and misalignment across our Engineering, Product, and Design teams, and partner with EM, PM, and cross-functional leads to set the roadmap. You'll bring a research-oriented approach to novel AI quality challenges. Our team has a strong in-office culture and works in person 4–5 days per week in San Francisco. We love working together to stay cr...