[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer @8am

Role Description

8am is looking for a Staff level Engineer to join our team of seasoned AI engineers who are delivering on the roadmap of AI features to enhance and expand our 8am suite of products. In this role, you will design and build AI-powered features that delight our customers, create new capabilities, and strengthen our platform. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and data scientists to bring cutting-edge AI into production, ensuring it drives meaningful business and customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in full stack SaaS application development or backend.
• Proven track record of building and deploying production-ready AI/ML services at scale.
• Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks, platforms, evals and related tooling.
• Strong Python or equivalent modern tech stack development skills and familiarity with data manipulation and evaluation workflows.
• Experience building scalable data infrastructure and integrating models into broader SaaS systems.
• Experience working in AWS cloud environments, or equivalent and with modern DevOps practices.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation.

Requirements

• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to translate business problems into AI-driven solutions.
• Design, implement, and integrate AI features into existing 8am products.
• Partner with the Data team to ensure the right data is collected, enriched, prepared, and staged for AI consumption and use.
• Build and evaluate AI-powered services, from customer-facing prototypes to general availability to all our customers.
• Write high-quality Python code to manipulate data, interact with large language models, and assess performance.
• Develop tools and infrastructure to support reliable, scalable, and secure AI deployment.
• Work with our cloud operations team to deploy AI features, monitor their impact, and continuously improve them.

Benefits

• Health Insurance Coverage: A variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, including a 100% company-paid HDHP plan for employees.
• Financial perks: Competitive compensation and benefits package including annual bonuses, equity options, and 401(k) or RRSP if in Canada, with a company match for all team members.
• Time for what matters: Flexible Time Off, paid holidays, and a parental leave program for new parents.
• Wellness: Wellness stipends, mental health support, and one-on-one nutrition coaching.
• Learning and Development: Continuous learning through 8am.edu, leadership programs, professional development funds, and individually focused talent development.
• Giving back to the communities: Participate in our charitable matching gift program, paid time off for volunteer service, and company-sponsored volunteer events (both local and virtually).
• Engagement: Virtual and in-person team-building events, quarterly award recognition through our Rise & Shine Award of Excellence Program, and our peer-to-peer appreciation platform.