Sr. Staff Engineer
BettermentWealth Management company
New York, United States$230K - $270KLead
Bessemer Venture Partners
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Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead the technical direction of Betterment's AI product development strategy.
- •The AI Platform team enables product teams across Betterment to build useful AI-powered features quickly, enjoyably, and responsibly.
- •As Sr Staff Engineer, you will work with a team of senior/staff engineers delivering an expanding set of AI capabilities as well as shared infrastructure, LLM evaluation frameworks, and internal libraries.
- •Key Responsibilities Work with a team of senior/staff engineers building the foundation that enables all Betterment teams to deploy AI features.
- •Define and drive Betterment's AI platform strategy
- •the shared infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, internal libraries, and guardrails that allow product teams to build AI features with confidence and speed.
- •Lead high-leverage projects that expand our organization's AI technical capabilities, where AI organically enhances existing product value.
- •Requirements A strong technical lead capable of establishing the strategic vision for Betterment's AI systems while also working hands-on alongside senior and staff IC colleagues to build it into reality.
- •Deep expertise in LLM systems, including prompt engineering, agentic workflows, and evaluation systems.
- •Comfort operating at the frontier.
- •The ability and drive to stay current with emerging tools, techniques, and best practices within the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem.
Required skills
ReactGraphQLPythonJavaTypeScriptC#Ruby on Rails.NETAWSKubernetesCI/CDDockerLLMs
Nice-to-have skills
Engineering ManagementTechnical LeadershipStrategic PlanningCross-functional Leadership
Domain expertise
fintech
Benefits & perks
equity, health insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits, FSA/HSA, 401(k) with employer match, flexible PTO
Tech stack
ReactGraphQLPythonJavaTypeScriptC#Ruby on Rails.NETAWSKubernetesCI/CDDocker