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Staff AI Engineer

withpulleySan FranciscoEngineering
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Salary
$300K – $350K
Job type
Full-time
Experience
Senior · 8+ yrs
Posted
21 Sept 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

Based in San Francisco, the Staff AI Engineer position at Pulley involves designing and scaling production-ready large language model systems to automate commercial permitting and suits experienced engineers with a strong background in artificial intelligence. This full-time role requires working in person four days a week.

Role Overview

Pulley is hiring a Staff AI Engineer to direct the technical strategy for applying artificial intelligence across product surfaces. The professional in this position will tackle unstructured permitting documents, local regulations, and jurisdiction workflows to create structured and reliable data outputs. The individual will guide the engineering team, establish evaluation standards, and make foundational technical decisions for production systems.

Key Responsibilities

Own the technical direction for applying large language models across multiple product surfaces from architecture to production.
Transform unstructured permitting inputs, city regulations, and jurisdiction workflows into reliable, structured outputs through extraction, classification, retrieval, and agentic workflows.
Establish evaluation and observability standards to measure model quality, define ground truth, and track regressions.
Utilize AI coding agents daily to direct, review, and ship implementation work at high velocity.
Determine architectural choices, model selections, and buy-versus-build strategies for future product capabilities.
Mentor senior engineers, create development patterns, and establish technical abstractions for the broader team.

Requirements

Eight or more years of software engineering experience, including a substantial focus on building production machine learning or large language model systems.
Demonstrated history of managing an artificial intelligence domain end-to-end, encompassing architecture, data quality, evaluation design, latency management, and failure handling.
Hands-on expertise with production large language models, covering prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, structured extraction, and agentic workflows.
Practical background in designing evaluations to ensure reliability for features powered by large language models.
Direct experience building software products using AI coding agents for substantial implementation tasks.
Ability to design durable technical systems while balancing pragmatic trade-offs.
Experience providing technical direction or mentoring engineering peers.
Location in the San Francisco Bay Area with the ability to work in person four days a week.

Nice to Have

Experience with large-scale document understanding, including optical character recognition, layout-aware parsing, or vision-language models for scanned drawings and forms.
Background in fine-tuning models or creating data pipelines for training and evaluation sets derived from real-world usage.
Domain knowledge in construction technology, property technology, government technology, or related fields involving complex real-world documents.
Proficiency in modern full-stack development tools such as TypeScript, React, and Google Cloud.
Prior experience operating as the most senior artificial intelligence expert within a technical organization.
Early-stage startup experience focused on team-building alongside product development.

Skills and Tools

Large Language Models
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Structured Extraction
Agentic Workflows
AI Coding Agents
Evaluation and Observability Systems
Document Understanding and OCR
TypeScript
React
Google Cloud

Salary and Benefits

Compensation ranges from $300,000 to $350,000.
Equity offerings are included.

About the Company

Pulley provides artificial intelligence-driven permitting intelligence and expert guidance to help architects, builders, and retailers accelerate commercial projects. Founded in 2021 and backed by investors such as CRV, Susa Ventures, and Fifth Wall, the organization supports rollout programs for major brands, data center buildouts, and electric vehicle charging networks.

How to Apply

Candidates should review the requirements and submit an application on the official company careers page.

Skills and tech stack

LLMsRAGTypeScriptReactGoogle CloudVision-Language ModelsOCRLLMFine-tuning

Questions candidates ask

What is the location and work arrangement for the Staff AI Engineer role?

The position is based in San Francisco, and the employee must be willing to work in person four days a week.

What is the salary range and compensation structure?

The salary ranges from $300K to $350K, and the position includes offers for equity.

How many years of experience are required for this role?

Candidates must have 8 or more years of software engineering experience, with a substantial portion dedicated to building production LLM or ML systems.

What technology stack does Pulley use for full-stack development?

Pulley uses TypeScript, React, and Google Cloud for modern full-stack development.

What kind of domain challenges does Pulley solve with AI?

Pulley uses AI to process messy, unstructured permitting documents, city regulations, scanned plan sets, reviewer comments, and application forms from over 19,000 jurisdictions.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official withpulley careers page.

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