About Prophecy
The leader in AI-native data preparation and analysis, Prophecy is revolutionizing how the world’s top enterprises turn data chaos into reliable insights. We introduce the AI-native data lifecycle (generate, refine, deploy) where our industry leading AI agents and humans work hand-in-hand in visual and document interfaces to analyze, transform and prepare data, to ship trusted insights at enterprise scale.
Don’t miss the rocket ship—join Prophecy and build the next data revolution.
Great candidates will demonstrate:
Agentic Systems
- Shipped production single or multi-agent systems (code generation, workflow orchestration, or chatbots)
- Hands-on with agentic frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, or custom)
- Prompt engineering and evaluation harness implementation
Technical Depth
- Strong backend engineering: microservices, high-throughput/low-latency systems, async processing, API design, cloud deployment (k8s, AWS)
- Fluent in several of programming languages: Python, Go, Java, or Scala
- Shipped features in large codebases (>500k LOC)
Leadership & Delivery
- Led 2+ user-facing AI projects from ambiguity to production impact
- Active hands-on coder: prototypes weekly, debugs production, unblocks teams
- Daily user of AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.)
- Enforces MLOps rigor: CI/CD, observability, A/B testing, on-call culture
- Partnered cross-functionally with PMs/execs on roadmap and metrics
- Showed Extreme Ownership & Startup Mentality – build and ship fast, fix things themselves, and care deeply about user impact.
- Code generation models and agents (Codex, text-to-SQL), semantic extraction, or knowledge graphs (Neo4j, Neptune)
- Compiler development (SQL, Python, Scala) or tooling (VSCode extensions, LSP, debuggers)
- ML/LLM experience with fine-tuning (SFT, DPO, RLHF), distillation, quantization
- RAG systems and vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector)
- ETL pipelines with Spark or data processing at scale
- Open-source AI/ML contributions (Hugging Face, PyTorch, etc.)
- Track record driving technical strategy and build/buy decisions
- Own coding-agent services and architecture end-to-end
- Mentor engineers and lead on the toughest technical problems
- Design, code and ship state-of-the-art coding agents for ETL and data analysis
- Drive both early exploration / prototyping and expanding our production platform
- Build evaluation frameworks, testing harnesses, and observability/governance
- Optimize prompts, context engineering, model selection, fine-tuning, and cost/performance
Seniority: Staff to Principal
Experience: 5+ years in industry
Compensation: $300,000 - $500,000
Reflected is the base pay range and equity offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.
Benefits and Perks
- Prophecy covers 99% of employee health insurance premiums and 75% for dependents
- We offer $200 per month towards remote work, wellness, gyms, massages, facials, and more!
- Flexible PTO
- Professional development allowance
- Company sponsored Long Term Disability and Life Insurance, FSA/HSA, dental, vision, and more
- Ability to have your fingerprint on an innovative platform
- End-to-end ownership of your projects.
*Benefits and perks may vary per country
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Prophecy, we hire for merit and foster an inclusive culture where people from diverse backgrounds can excel and do their best work. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Prophecy are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and any other protected characteristics under applicable laws.
Top Skills
What We Do
Prophecy.io is the only low-code data engineering platform. Prophecy democratizes the development and deployment of high-quality data pipelines, uniquely combining visual development with agile software engineering best practices. The developed code is open source and is targeted at Apache Spark & Apache Airflow. Prophecy is headquartered in Silicon Valley.
