Headquartered in Los Altos, CA. Backed by SAIGroup.
Learn more about JazzX AI:
Website: https://jazzx.ai
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jazzx-ai
Learn more about SAIGroup:
Website: https://saigroup.ai
Senior Staff Engineer
As a Senior Staff Engineer at JazzX.ai, you will operate as a strategic technical leader—driving platform architecture, guiding critical projects, and influencing product direction. You will serve as a hands-on contributor, provide technical mentorship across teams, and partner with senior stakeholders to ensure our solutions are innovative, robust, and aligned with the company’s long-term vision. You will also be instrumental in fostering a high-performance engineering culture that emphasizes collaboration, excellence, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Define and evolve JazzX.ai’s technical strategy, ensuring our AI-driven systems can scale and adapt to future challenges.
- Own the end-to-end architecture for key platform components, ensuring high levels of reliability, security, and performance.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks, making data-driven recommendations that influence company-wide engineering decisions.
Project Execution & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Lead complex, high-impact engineering initiatives that require coordination across multiple product and infrastructure teams.
- Collaborate with Product Management, AI research engineering, , and UX to scope technical requirements and deliver solutions that align with business objectives.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, clearly communicating technical roadmaps, trade-offs, and risks.
Mentorship & Team Development
- Guide and mentor engineers at all levels, from early-career to senior staff, providing technical direction and career development support.
- Champion best practices in code quality, architecture reviews, testing, and documentation.
- Foster an inclusive and innovative engineering culture, encouraging knowledge-sharing and continuous learning.
Innovation & AI Integration
- Partner with the AI research engineering team team to design and implement modern AI frameworks and capabilities as production services in the platform
- Drive the exploration and adoption of state-of-the-art AI/ML technologies to keep JazzX.ai ahead of industry trends.
- Identify strategic opportunities where AI can deliver enhanced functionality or novel capabilities for our platform.
Operational Excellence
- Define and enforce SLAs for mission-critical services, ensuring minimal downtime and fast recovery.
- Champion DevOps best practices around CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, and security.
- Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and Security teams to optimize performance and maintain compliance with industry standards.
Qualifications
Educational Background
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
Experience & Technical Expertise
- 10–12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in technical leadership roles (Principal, Staff, or equivalent).
- Proven track record leading complex, large-scale projects across distributed systems, backend architecture, or cloud platforms.
- Deep expertise in at least one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Javascript, Go, C++), with a willingness to learn new technologies.
- Strong understanding of microservices, event-driven architectures, and container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Experience with large-scale data processing, streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka), and databases (both SQL and NoSQL).
- Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) and operationalizing machine learning solutions is a plus.
AI/ML Experience:
- Demonstrated experience in designing, building, deploying, and managing Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms and services. Hands on experience with MLOps practices, frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch), and tools.
- Experience building platforms and applications with modern LLMs and AI agent frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex , AutoGen etc. is a strong plus
Leadership & Soft Skills
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders at executive levels.
- Proven ability to mentor, coach, and inspire engineers, build high-performing teams and a culture of engineering excellence.
- Experience navigating ambiguous requirements and delivering results in a fast-paced, startup environment.
- Demonstrated thought leadership in architectural design, code quality, and technical strategy.
Why Join JazzX AI -
What draws people to JazzX AI is the opportunity to build something truly foundational.
We are at the beginning of a new era — one where enterprise systems will no longer be static tools, but dynamic collaborators that learn, reason, and evolve alongside the people who use them. At JazzX AI, you’ll help build a platform that redefines how work happens in the AGI era.
JazzX AI brings together vision, deep technology, and purpose. This is not about experimenting with AI features; it’s about turning the promise of AGI into practical, auditable, and human-aligned systems that enterprises can trust and rely on at scale. The work here directly impacts productivity, efficiency, and decision-making in complex, real-world environments.
If you’re motivated by building systems that matter — systems that combine intelligence with responsibility — JazzX AI offers the chance to do that work at a deeper level, with real ownership and lasting impact.
Top Skills
JazzX AI Los Altos, California, USA Office
Los Altos, CA , United States, 94022
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