Senior Software Engineer (Agent)
Company: Pave
Location: San Francisco, CA & New York, NY
Salary: $195.5k - $264.5k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-09-11
About this role
- This role will be working on Pave’s AI compensation analyst - an agentic system that sits on top of the world’s largest proprietary compensation dataset and Pave’s existing workflow engine
- Think: autonomous agents that can reason over structured compensation data and execute multi-step workflows (market pricing, cycle planning, attrition analysis) across Pave’s platform
- In this role, you’ll shape the technical vision and execution, working with a team of engineers and data scientists to build the product end-to-end and take it to market
### Benefits
- Commute: Commuter pre-tax benefit accounts + employer contribution for full-time employees
- Compensation: Startup equity for full-time employees
- Food: All meals while working, plus snacks. We take our snacking seriously
- Tech: Choose your laptop and accessories of choice
- Team: Retreats, happy hours, and events for our team, friends, and family
- Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need - we encourage our team to unplug with unlimited PTO
- Wellness: Top tier health insurance along for full-time employees
- WFH Wednesday: A dedicated work from home day each week + additional flexibility by team!- This role requires deep AI expertise, strong product intuition, and a founder mentality
- 7+ years of experience building production systems, with deep hands-on expertise in LLMs, agentic architectures, retrieval systems, and evaluation frameworks
- Strong product intuition. You identify customer problems that AI can uniquely solve and partner with Product to shape what gets built, not just how
- Pragmatic engineering judgment: you know when to move fast and when to invest in quality
- Proven track record leading 0→1 technical initiatives with high ambiguity, driving them from concept to production
- Founder mentality with bias toward action, ownership, and urgency; you’re energized by the challenge of bringing a new AI product to market
- Ability to drive technical alignment across teams. You’ll be defining prim...