Software engineer, generative AI
Writer is hiring a Software engineer, generative AI in San Francisco, United States. It pays $132k-$240k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Writer.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Builds AI ●●●●: the job is building AI systems.
- The posting allows some remote work.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Claude, Copilot and Pinecone.
- Level lists 47 other open roles at Writer.
- The role was posted within the past week.
AI in this role
🚀 About WRITER
WRITER is the AI platform built for the world’s most ambitious marketing and revenue teams, bringing the frontier of AI to the people who drive enterprise growth. With WRITER, autonomous agents work across the buyer journey, continuously executing on market signals and enterprise intelligence to grow revenue faster. Every agent action and asset is grounded in trust, built on an Enterprise Brain that unites brand, product, and company knowledge with fiduciary-grade governance and compliance.
Fortune 500 companies are transforming how they go to market with WRITER, including 3 of the top 5 US banks, 2 of the 5 largest global CPG conglomerates, and 4 of the top 5 US healthcare insurers. Founded in 2020, WRITER is backed by investors including Insight Partners, ICONIQ, Radical Ventures, Premji Invest, Balderton, B Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures, Accenture, Citi Ventures, IBM Ventures, WndrCo, and others. Learn more at WRITER.com.
📐 About the role
Imagine stepping into a role where your code directly empowers the world's largest enterprises to safely adopt superintelligence. As a software engineer, generative ai at WRITER, you'll be at the forefront of expanding human capacity by building the secure, scalable foundation that allows our generative AI solutions to thrive in complex corporate environments. The impact of this work is massive – for example, in the consumer packaged goods industry alone, our AI adoption is driving 69% revenue increases and 72% cost reductions.
This role is designed for a well-rounded engineering generalist who leans heavily into generative AI while bringing a whole-systems mindset to architectural design. If you thrive on proactivity without red tape and love owning projects from proposal to deployment, you'll shape the future of AI and contribute to a product that’s changing how the world works. This is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco, New York City, or London hubs. You'll report to an engineering director or a senior engineering manager.
We are open to hiring for this role at multiple levels, with compensation ranges scaled to match your experience, expertise, and the scope of the role.
🦸🏻♀️ What you'll do
Design and develop robust, secure, and scalable generative AI services and applications using Python and modern frameworks to drive enterprise-wide transformation
Build and optimize high-performance, low-latency APIs and microservices to integrate advanced AI models and sophisticated agentic workflows into our core platform
Act as a whole-systems thinker by making meaningful system design decisions and owning the architecture of core platform components from initial proposal through production deployment
Implement and maintain responsive user interfaces using technologies like React and TypeScript to deliver intuitive user experiences and bridge the gap between backend services and frontend enablement
Drive proactivity without red tape by clearly communicating changes, plans, and proposals to cross-functional teams and collaborating closely with product managers, data scientists, and DevOps engineers
Partner with DevOps teams to build continuous deployment, logging, and monitoring systems that ensure top-tier performance, security, and reliability across distributed workloads
⭐️ What you need
3-5+ years of hands-on experience as a software engineer with a strong emphasis on Python development in production environments
Proven expertise in building and deploying generative AI applications, leveraging LLMs, vector databases like Pinecone, Weaviate, or pgvector, and modern open-source agentic frameworks
Practical experience with microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
Solid grasp of modern web technologies including FastAPI, Asyncio, database systems like PostgreSQL, and hands-on experience leveraging AI developer tooling like Claude, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot to accelerate your engineering workflows
Exposure to enterprise architecture including practical experience implementing IAM, SSO, SAML, OAuth, OIDC, RBAC, robust security best practices, or building services for enterprise administration and billing systems
A Connect mindset that thrives in collaborative settings where you actively engage with cross-functional teams and mentor other engineers, a Challenge spirit that drives you to tackle complex technical hurdles and proactively suggest innovative improvements, and an Own attitude where you take full accountability for delivering high-quality, resilient, and scalable code from conception to production
🍩 Benefits & perks (US Full-time employees)
Generous PTO, plus company holidays
Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
Paid parental leave for all parents (16 weeks)
Fertility and family planning support
Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri
Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options
Health savings account for eligible plans with company contribution
Annual work-life stipends for:
Wellness stipend for gym, massage/chiropractor, personal training, etc.
Learning and development stipend
Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites
Competitive compensation, company stock options and 401k
WRITER is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to diversity. We don't make hiring or employment decisions based on race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law. Under the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
By submitting your application on the application page, you acknowledge and agree to WRITER's Global Candidate Privacy Notice.
How we rate this
Software engineer, generative AI at Writer rates 86 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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- $132k
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- $167k
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Questions you could be asked
- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- Walk me through how you've used Claude in your day-to-day work.
- What are the limits of Copilot that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
- What's a project where you used Pinecone hands-on?
- Walk me through how you've used Weaviate in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: AI agents, Claude, Copilot, Pinecone, and Weaviate. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.
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