Staff Software Engineer (AI)

What this role involves

Pendo is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (AI) to join their Emerging Team focused on building AI-native products. The role involves designing and shipping LLM-powered systems, including RAG pipelines and agentic workflows, and requires strong product judgment and technical leadership. The position is based in New York and operates with high autonomy.

Skills this posting asks for

• rag
• llm
• agentic workflows
• prompt engineering
• fine-tuning
• python
• react
• node.js
• transformers
• model deployment
• monitoring
• latency optimization
• orchestration frameworks
• tool use
• evaluation frameworks

Requirements

• Level: staff
• Remote policy: onsite

From the employer’s posting

The Team + The Role Our Emerging Team is focused on building AI Products for our product experience (PX) platform. We build from the ground up to explore, prototype, and ship AI-native experiences that change how software teams understand and serve their users. This is not an AI layer a…