Staff Software Engineer – AI-Native Development

🔥 17 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $180k - $260k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 AI Engineer

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SimSpace

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 $39M Venture Round - SimSpace on 2025-10

Consulting • Defense • Cybersecurity

SimSpace is a cybersecurity company that provides a realistic, intelligent cyber range platform for training, testing, and validating security teams, tools, and AI agents. Its platform enables live-fire exercises, threat emulation (full kill-chain and atomic), validation of controls and agentic workflows, and disaster recovery and compliance testing; it is used by enterprises and government customers to build cyber readiness and resilience. Founded by experts from U. S. Cyber Command and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, SimSpace focuses on upskilling individuals, strengthening teams, and evaluating AI-driven defenses in realistic, production-like simulations.

📋 Description

• Define and model how teams build software with AI, including work specification, agent direction, and review, testing, and ownership of AI-generated code • Champion spec-driven development and help teams adopt it as their default workflow • Convert effective practices into standards, playbooks, and templates • Evaluate emerging AI tools and workflows, adopting beneficial ones and retiring ineffective ones • Create documentation, examples, and internal talks for AI-native workflows • Lead complex cross-team initiatives from problem framing and specification through architecture, delivery, and rollout • Build alignment across Product, Engineering, QA, and platform teams • Resolve technical dependencies and unblock stalled or drifting work • Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs to stakeholders • Improve end-to-end testing maturity in CI/CD pipelines • Help teams ship small changes frequently with trusted quality gates • Build or adopt trustworthy AI agents to reduce toil in CI/CD and event-triggered workflows • Uphold standards for code health, testing, documentation, and AI-generated code • Own team technical direction and execution in partnership with the Engineering Manager • Break large efforts into incremental deliverables and sequence work for predictable delivery • Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design walkthroughs

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leading technical projects end to end across teams • Daily use of AI coding agents and ability to demonstrate their impact on delivery • Familiarity with spec-driven development using AI agents, including specs, plans, and acceptance criteria • Ability to set and raise engineering standards adopted by multiple teams • Proven cross-organization collaboration with Product, QA, platform teams, and engineers • Deep, hands-on software engineering expertise, ideally in TypeScript, React, or Kotlin • Ability to set architectural direction, make hard technical calls, and critically review AI-generated code • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Experience building headless coding agents in CI/CD pipelines, on event triggers, or as background workers (preferred) • Experience improving end-to-end testing in CI/CD pipelines (preferred) • Experience with small batches, short feedback loops, and frequent releases without lowering quality (preferred) • Experience with trunk-based development, feature flags, progressive delivery, and fast rollback (preferred) • U.S. work authorization required; employment eligibility verification required upon hire

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonuses tied to company performance and individual contributions • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits • Savings plans; coverage starts on day one • Company-paid counseling, coaching, and family resources through Spring Health • 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match • Unlimited vacation • Dedicated health & wellness days • Paid parental leave • Equity stock options at hire, with annual performance-based grants • $1,500–$3,500 employee referral rewards for every qualified hire • Full- and partial-subsidized Peloton membership plans and equipment discounts • LinkedIn Learning membership • Monthly reimbursements for meaningful connections with teammates through SocialSpace Community • Legal plan coverage • Pet insurance • Wellness reimbursements

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