Staff+ Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
$320k – $485k / year
1 month ago
Staff & principal Engineering jobs at AI companies in the United States
AI labs and AI-first software companies building models, agents and AI products. Every role is posted straight from the company’s careers page.
Staff Software Engineer, Search
$320k – $405k / year
1 month ago
Staff/Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Product Engineering
$231k – $340k / year
1 month ago
Staff/Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Product Engineering
$231k – $340k / year
1 month ago
Staff+ Software Engineer, ML Inference Path
$320k – $485k / year
1 month ago
Staff+ Software Engineer, ML Sampling Path
$320k – $485k / year
1 month ago
Staff Software Engineer, Model Infrastructure
$231k – $340k / year
1 month ago
Staff+ Site Reliability Engineer, Safeguards ML Infra
$320k – $485k / year
1 month ago
Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude Science
$405k – $485k / year
1 month ago
Staff Software Engineer, RL Environments
$252k – $315k / year
1 month ago
Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data Platform
$500k – $850k / year
2 months ago
Principal/Staff Software Engineer
2 months ago
Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform
$231k – $340k / year
2 months ago
Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform
$231k – $340k / year
2 months ago
Staff Product Security Engineer
$220k – $330k / year
2 months ago
Staff+ Software Engineer, Auth & Identity
$405k – $485k / year
2 months ago
Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Experience
$405k – $485k / year
2 months ago
Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Portability
$405k – $485k / year
2 months ago
Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude Managed Agents
$405k – $485k / year
2 months ago
Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Distribution
$405k – $485k / year
2 months ago
Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Connectivity
$405k – $485k / year
2 months ago
Staff+ Software Engineer, Product Sandboxing
$405k – $485k / year
2 months ago
Staff Web Engineer
$220k – $260k / year
2 months ago
Staff Web Engineer
$220k – $260k / year
2 months ago
Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Ecosystem
$405k – $485k / year
2 months ago
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Staff & principal Engineering jobs at AI companies in the United States
AI labs and AI-first software companies building models, agents and AI products. Companies hiring here include OpenAI, Anthropic, Harvey, Cohere, Sierra, Scale AI, Cresta, ElevenLabs, Decagon, and Synthesia.
SaaS engineering teams split broadly into product engineering (frontend, backend and full-stack), platform and infrastructure (SRE, DevOps, cloud), security, data and machine learning, and quality. Most titles on this page fall into one of those groups. Forward-deployed and solutions engineers work closer to customers, so they are listed under Sales or Customer Success.
Pay depends heavily on level and location. Where companies publish a range, the typical role on this page lists $320k–$405k in the US (median published minimum and maximum). About 97% of the roles here include a salary; use Salary listed first to see those at the top.
9 SaaS companies are hiring for these roles right now, led by Anthropic, Harvey, and Scale AI.
Questions about Staff & principal Engineering jobs at AI companies
Where do these Staff & principal Engineering jobs at AI companies come from?
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Why don’t all jobs show a salary?
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Are all of these roles based in the United States?
Each role has at least one office or hiring location in the United States. Some postings list several countries or also allow remote work; the location chips on each job show the full picture.
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