SeniorStaff Full Stack Software Engineer
Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 200000 - 300000
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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Senior/Staff Full Stack Software Engineer
- Location: San Francisco CA
- Company Stage of Funding: Series A / High-Growth AI Consumer Startup
- Office Type: On-site (5 days/week in SF)
- Salary: $200000 $300000 Base
- Equity: Competitive
- Visa: Open to OPT TN and H-1B transfers
Company Description
- Our client is building an AI-native desktop assistant designed to fundamentally change how people work.
- The product can see everything happening on a users screen and proactively assist without requiring context switching between apps.
- Recently raised a $40M Series A led by Khosla Ventures following an earlier seed round backed by General Catalyst SV Angel Valor and Conviction.
- The company operates at the intersection of AI desktop systems native integrations and productivity software.
- Small highly technical team with extremely high ownership and execution standards.
- Engineers work directly on the future of AI-human interaction and productivity tooling.
- The company values product intuition technical depth curiosity and startup intensity.
- Opportunity to build category-defining AI software with massive product ownership and influence.
What You Will Do
- Build and scale a cross-platform AI desktop assistant used for productivity workflows
- Design and implement core features across frontend backend and native desktop layers
- Develop AI and LLM-powered product experiences integrated directly into user workflows
- Build and maintain Electron desktop application infrastructure
- Own end-to-end implementation of features from UI to backend services and native integrations
- Work with TypeScript React Electron Swift and C
- Develop performant native integrations for macOS and Windows environments
- Build systems that understand on-screen context and user workflows
- Collaborate on AI-powered automation copilots and productivity tooling
- Help shape technical architecture and long-term product direction
- Rapidly prototype and ship user-facing features in a fast-moving environment
- Work closely with product and leadership teams on roadmap and product strategy
- Build highly polished consumer-grade product experiences
- Optimize reliability performance and user experience across desktop systems
- Operate with high ownership and autonomy in a small engineering organization
Ideal Candidate Background
- 510 years of software engineering experience
- Strong full stack engineering background with frontend or backend depth
- Strong TypeScript React and engineering skills
- Experience building consumer or prosumer software products
- Experience owning and shipping products/features end-to-end
- Experience working at high-growth startups or strong engineering organizations
- Experience building AI/LLM-powered features or workflows
- Familiarity with AI tooling automation systems or productivity software
- Experience with Electron desktop applications is highly valuable
- Backend candidates should have strong systems experience in Swift or C
- Strong product intuition and customer empathy
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous startup environments
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- High ownership mentality and bias toward execution
- Strong attention to detail and product quality
- Comfortable working in-person in a high-intensity startup environment
Strong Signals
- Experience building Electron or desktop-native applications
- Experience integrating LLMs into production user-facing products
- Strong TypeScript React depth
- Native systems engineering experience in Swift or C
- Consumer productivity software experience
- Former founder or early-stage startup engineer experience
- Experience at high-growth startups from Seed to Series D
- Strong ownership over shipped customer-facing products
- Demonstrated obsession with AI tooling and emerging AI workflows
- Side projects open-source contributions or AI experiments
- Clear technical spike in a domain such as AI systems architecture or frontend UX
- Experience making architectural decisions in small engineering teams
- Strong startup execution mentality with rapid iteration speed
- Ability to deeply reason through product and systems tradeoffs
- Genuine excitement about AI-native user experiences
Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: $200000 $300000
- Competitive equity package
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI desktop software
- Massive ownership and product influence
- High-growth startup with strong investor backing
- Small highly technical engineering team
- Exposure to AI native systems desktop architecture and LLM integrations
- Opportunity to shape the future of AI-powered productivity software
- Fast-paced environment with strong career growth potential
Why Join
- This is a rare opportunity to work on a genuinely novel AI product redefining how humans interact with software.
- The company is building an AI assistant deeply integrated into real-world workflows instead of isolated chat interfaces.
- Engineers have direct ownership over both technical systems and product direction.
- The team combines strong technical talent exceptional investor backing and clear product-market excitement.
- If you enjoy AI-native products desktop systems fast execution product ownership and building ambitious user experiences this role offers exceptional upside and technical scope.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
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