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$300,000 – $325,000
Listed on Pendo’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Staff-level role building AI-native products and systems within a product intelligence platform. Suited for experienced engineers who combine deep LLM expertise with product thinking, thrive in ambiguity, and can drive technical decisions and cross-team influence at scale.
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What they ask for
Required
- Deep hands-on experience building and shipping LLM-powered systems including RAG, tool use, and agent orchestration
- Ability to set technical direction for AI systems and establish architectural patterns across teams
- Experience owning outcomes across team boundaries and influencing organizational approach to AI
- Strong expertise in model evaluation, including designing evaluation suites and detecting hallucinations
- Understanding of modern model architectures (transformers, diffusion models) with informed application ability
- Production experience including model deployment, monitoring, and latency/cost/reliability optimization
- Full-stack fundamentals and comfort across backend and frontend systems
- Exceptional communication skills explaining complex technical decisions to engineers, PMs, and executives
- Demonstrated product judgment to evaluate whether something should be built
Nice to have
- Experience fine-tuning foundation models with clear reasoning about when it outperforms prompting
- Familiarity with AI safety considerations and guardrail frameworks
- Experience building agentic or multi-step reasoning systems using orchestration tools
- Background in SaaS or product analytics informing AI product design
- Prior experience launching net-new teams or product areas