Headquartered in Los Altos, CA. Backed by SAIGroup.
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
- 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.
Top Skills
What We Do
We are technologists, designers, builders, and innovators who are revolutionizing traditional business processes and practices with advanced AI technology. Our vision is a future where novel digital solutions support employees in their complex, knowledge-driven tasks while automating the routine ones. This not only improves work productivity and enjoyment, but also enables companies to become pacesetters within their industries.
JazzX AI is owned by SAIGroup, one of the largest, fastest-growing investment firms in enterprise AI. SAIGroup is a private investment firm investing in business with the potential to become leaders in enterprise AI solutions. SAIGroup’s investments enable our portfolio companies to accelerate their innovation and growth. Principal owner and investor Dr. Romesh Wadhwani has made a commitment to invest up to $1 billion in SAIGroup. Visit saigroup.ai to learn more.
