Senior Staff Software Engineer @ JazzX AI

About JazzX AI:

Vision: Enterprises operating on institutional intelligence—governed, self-improving, and scalable beyond individual expertise.

JazzX AI is defining the future of enterprise work—by building AI-native digital workers that actually get the job done.

We believe enterprises don't scale expertise—they lose it. Knowledge stays trapped in individuals, judgment gets applied inconsistently, and the best talent spends time on work that should run itself. We're changing that.

JazzX AI transforms messy enterprise reality into institutional intelligence: governed digital workers that capture expert judgment, make every decision explainable, and continuously improve through real-world execution. The result is faster decisions, higher-quality outcomes, and reliable execution at scale—in domains where getting it wrong isn't an option.

We're starting with lending and due-diligence workflows—complex, regulated, high-stakes. From here, we're building the backbone for enterprise intelligence across industries.

This is early-stage, hard, and consequential work. If you want to be part of bringing AI systems to market that actually run in production, handle real complexity, and deliver real outcomes—not demos, not chatbots—JazzX AI is the place.

Headquartered in Los Altos, CA. Backed by SAIGroup.

About SAIGroup :

SAIGroup a private investment firm that has committed $1B to build and scale next-generation, AI-powered enterprise software companies. SAIGroup’s portfolio serves 2,000+ global enterprise customers, generates nearly $800M in annual revenue, and employs 4,000+ people worldwide — providing JazzX AI with long-term capital, deep operating expertise, and access to real-world enterprise scale from day one.

Learn more about JazzX AI:
Website:https://jazzx.ai
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/jazzx-ai

Learn more about SAIGroup:
Website:https://saigroup.ai

Senior Staff Engineer

As a Senior Staff Engineer at JazzX.ai, you will operate as a strategic technical leader—driving platform architecture, guiding critical projects, and influencing product direction. You will serve as a hands-on contributor, provide technical mentorship across teams, and partner with senior stakeholders to ensure our solutions are innovative, robust, and aligned with the company’s long-term vision. You will also be instrumental in fostering a high-performance engineering culture that emphasizes collaboration, excellence, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

Define and evolve JazzX.ai’s technical strategy, ensuring our AI-driven systems can scale and adapt to future challenges.
Own the end-to-end architecture for key platform components, ensuring high levels of reliability, security, and performance.
Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks, making data-driven recommendations that influence company-wide engineering decisions.

Project Execution & Cross-Functional Collaboration

Lead complex, high-impact engineering initiatives that require coordination across multiple product and infrastructure teams.
Collaborate with Product Management, AI research engineering, , and UX to scope technical requirements and deliver solutions that align with business objectives.
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, clearly communicating technical roadmaps, trade-offs, and risks.

Mentorship & Team Development

Guide and mentor engineers at all levels, from early-career to senior staff, providing technical direction and career development support.
Champion best practices in code quality, architecture reviews, testing, and documentation.
Foster an inclusive and innovative engineering culture, encouraging knowledge-sharing and continuous learning.

Innovation & AI Integration

Partner with the AI research engineering team team to design and implement modern AI frameworks and capabilities as production services in the platform
Drive the exploration and adoption of state-of-the-art AI/ML technologies to keep JazzX.ai ahead of industry trends.
Identify strategic opportunities where AI can deliver enhanced functionality or novel capabilities for our platform.

Operational Excellence

Define and enforce SLAs for mission-critical services, ensuring minimal downtime and fast recovery.
Champion DevOps best practices around CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, and security.
Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and Security teams to optimize performance and maintain compliance with industry standards.

Qualifications

Educational Background

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent experience.

Experience & Technical Expertise

10–12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in technical leadership roles (Principal, Staff, or equivalent).
Proven track record leading complex, large-scale projects across distributed systems, backend architecture, or cloud platforms.
Deep expertise in at least one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Javascript, Go, C++), with a willingness to learn new technologies.
Strong understanding of microservices, event-driven architectures, and container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker).
Experience with large-scale data processing, streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka), and databases (both SQL and NoSQL).
Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) and operationalizing machine learning solutions is a plus.

AI/ML Experience:

Demonstrated experience in designing, building, deploying, and managing Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms and services. Hands on experience with MLOps practices, frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch), and tools.
Experience building platforms and applications with modern LLMs and AI agent frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex , AutoGen etc. is a strong plus

Leadership & Soft Skills

Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders at executive levels.
Proven ability to mentor, coach, and inspire engineers, build high-performing teams and a culture of engineering excellence.
Experience navigating ambiguous requirements and delivering results in a fast-paced, startup environment.
Demonstrated thought leadership in architectural design, code quality, and technical strategy.

Why Join JazzX AI -

What draws people to JazzX AI is the opportunity to build something truly foundational.

We are at the beginning of a new era — one where enterprise systems will no longer be static tools, but dynamic collaborators that learn, reason, and evolve alongside the people who use them. At JazzX AI, you’ll help build a platform that redefines how work happens in the AGI era.

JazzX AI brings together vision, deep technology, and purpose. This is not about experimenting with AI features; it’s about turning the promise of AGI into practical, auditable, and human-aligned systems that enterprises can trust and rely on at scale. The work here directly impacts productivity, efficiency, and decision-making in complex, real-world environments.

If you’re motivated by building systems that matter — systems that combine intelligence with responsibility — JazzX AI offers the chance to do that work at a deeper level, with real ownership and lasting impact.

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