Senior Software Engineer, Internal AI

Zip - San Francisco, CA / remote/in-office options

Engineer Verified May 31, 2026 Source: ziphq.com

This role is part of the Internal AI Job Board, a curated list of jobs for teams building or operating internal AI systems. Follow the original role page for the employer description, requirements, and application flow.

Compensation: salary range for this role is $200,000 - $240,000. The salary for this position is determined based on a variety of job-related fa

Qualifications

6+ years building and operating backend applications in production. Bias toward application, integration, and data-pipeline work rather than pure infrastructure.
Real infrastructure sensibility. You understand hosting, identity, secrets, and data flow well enough to collaborate credibly with a core infrastructure team.
Strong architectural vocabulary. Comfortable reviewing others’ designs (engineers and non-engineers) and saying “use this pattern, not that one” with empathy.
Pragmatist. Picks the smallest tool that works — sometimes Python/Node, sometimes n8n, frequently “don’t build it, here’s an existing skill you should use with Claude Cowork”
Hands-on with modern AI tooling: Claude Code, Cowork, MCP, LLM APIs, evals. Opinionated about where AI is the wrong solution.
Strong communicator. Much of this role is consulting engineers and non-engineers and holding a line without becoming a blocker.
Comfortable in ambiguity. The function is new and the paved roads don’t fully exist yet.

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