Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI (Remote, US)

Sayari is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help build our platform. An ideal candidate is a process-oriented self-starter with extensive experience in the software engineering world and interested in working on problems related to corporate transparency, anti money laundering, sanctions evasions, and combating financial fraud.If you are passionate about open source development and innovative technology, with a strong background in web development and engineering leadership, then we strongly encourage you to apply.

As Staff AI Engineer, you will lead implementation of one of the application team squads, overseeing that team's deliverables, architecting solutions, and ensuring code quality and maintainability, all while working closely with the product team and engineering leadership to ensure alignment with the product's roadmap.

• →Architect classical and AI powered solutions that are robust, scalable, and thoroughly tested. Contribute directly to expanding the functionality and performance of our code base.
• →Collaborate with our Product and Design teams to evolve our platform roadmap, ensuring product goals are translated into tractable features that appropriately reflect our application's data model and capabilities. Identify capacity constraints to inform development sequencing and prioritization.
• →Lead technical architecture decisions for AI features, balancing research ambitions with production reliability
• →Establish evaluation frameworks and best practices for working with large language models in high-stakes, accuracy-critical domains
• →Act as a multiplier for the engineering team through hands-on mentoring, deep code reviews, and technical training on AI skillsets

Required Skills & Experience: 

• 10+ years of industry experience in software development, including experience as an IC and a mentor/lead.
• Hands-on experience building production applications with LLMs (Prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, or agentic workflows).
• Deep understanding and proficiency with SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and/or Cypher-based graph databases
• Proficiency in TypeScript and backend web development (REST APIs)
• Experience managing software in cloud environments (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Experience conducting code reviews and unit testing

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Experience with Graph databases and query optimization for large-scale data.
• Experience working on both front end and back end code bases
• Experience with container orchestration via Kubernetes
• Interest in data visualization, or how to visually present large, complex datasets
• Exposure to batch processing frameworks like Spark

The target base salary for this position is $200,000-$225,000 plus annual bonus and equity. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including location, local market variances, candidate experience and expertise, internal peer equity, and may vary from the amounts listed above.