Staff Software Engineer, AI

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $136.9k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🤖 AI Engineer

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Basis Technologies

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501 - 1000 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

💰 $25M Private Equity Round on 2021-04

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Basis Technologies is a company focused on streamlining and innovating the digital advertising industry. They offer a comprehensive platform that integrates and automates various aspects of digital advertising, including demand-side platforms (DSP), cross-device targeting, brand safety, fraud protection, and private marketplaces. The platform is designed to reduce operational complexity and manual effort by consolidating disparate systems and automating workflows. Basis Technologies also provides services such as media strategy, activation, consulting, and onboarding, along with education programs through their AdTech Academy. They emphasize efficiency, productivity, and collaboration within advertising operations, catering to enterprises looking for effective programmatic advertising solutions.

📋 Description

• Set the technical direction for Compass and its LLM-powered features • Architect multi-agent systems and own major design decisions • Lead the design and evolution of MCP servers, A2A integrations, and APIs connecting agents to the Basis media buying toolkit • Own agent orchestration, evaluation, and observability • Define agent quality measurements and ensure reliable production reasoning, planning, and execution • Own software end to end, including production support for Compass • Serve as the primary technical contact for Product, QA, Design, Operations, Engineering teams, and stakeholders • Represent the team in cross-team planning, architecture discussions, and RFCs • Drive large-scale technical projects across multiple teams and systems from ideation through production • Own team deliverables, decisions, quality, processes, and technical direction • Translate business goals into realistic technical plans and identify risks and blockers • Own the technical quality bar through design and code reviews • Onboard and mentor engineers • Lead adoption of AI-assisted and agentic development across Basis Engineering • Establish best practices and build examples and infrastructure for other teams • Foster a positive team culture and promote Basis in the community • Build orchestration, tooling, and evaluation infrastructure for reliable LLM-powered agents in the ad tech domain • Develop patterns and best practices for agentic and AI-assisted development across Engineering

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of professional software engineering experience, including recent experience shipping production LLM-powered applications or agent systems • Track record of technical leadership, including owning the technical direction of a team or major system and influencing architecture beyond the immediate area of ownership • Expert-level proficiency in Python • History of architecting production APIs and backend services and integrating with protocols such as MCP and A2A • Deep experience building and operating production-grade agentic systems with frameworks such as Strands, LangChain, or the Claude Agent SDK • Experience with asynchronous and event-driven patterns, prompt engineering, structured outputs, and techniques for improving agent reliability • Experience with evaluation and observability tools such as Langfuse or LangSmith, including designing evaluation strategies from the ground up • Fluency with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex • Proven ability to mentor engineers and explain complex agentic systems clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Thoughtful approach to collaboration, design, and decision-making that prioritizes equity, access, and continuous learning • Commitment to creating inclusive, respectful environments • Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is listed as a bonus, not a requirement

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work week • 401k/RRSP matching • Mental health support • Paid sabbaticals • Generous parental leave • Flexible work options • Competitive benefits • Remote, hybrid, or on-site work options across the U.S. and Canada • Optional cover letter • Identity, education, and employment history verification for hires