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Posted May 22Staff AI Engineer
at Amplitude
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- Ship high-impact AI features and products that change how customers and internal teams work, from agentic workflows to embedded intelligence across the Amplitude platform
- Design and build the foundational infrastructure behind Amplitude's AI systems: orchestration, evaluation, retrieval, context management, and integrations with the broader product ecosystem
- Identify high-leverage opportunities by deeply understanding user workflows, customer pain points, and emerging capabilities in the AI ecosystem
- Establish reusable patterns, primitives, and components that enable other engineers to build AI features confidently and consistently
- Drive adoption and quality through close collaboration with product, design, and customer-facing teams, with a relentless focus on real usage and measurable outcomes
- Build to learn: You favor fast iteration, usage-based validation, and continuous improvement over upfront perfection What Sets You Apart
- Hands-on design and implementation of agentic systems: You design and ship robust agentic workflows with strong context handling, orchestration, tool use, and evaluation
- Build vs. buy judgment: You know when to adopt existing solutions and when to build from scratch
Requirements
- Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences.
- With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever.
- We're looking for a Staff AI Engineer to help advance Amplitude's AI products and the foundations they're built on.
- As AI reshapes how customers analyze data, build products, and act on insights, we need engineers who can move fluidly between deep technical work and product judgment, shipping AI capabilities that customers and internal teams actually rely on.
- You'll identify where AI creates the most leverage, build the systems that deliver it, and establish the patterns that let the rest of the company build faster on top of your work.
- You'll contribute to customer-facing AI products, the platform infrastructure beneath them, and the internal tooling that helps Amplitude operate as an AI-native company. What You'll Do
- Set technical direction for AI systems at Amplitude, making thoughtful build vs. buy calls, shaping evaluation strategy, and influencing the long-term roadmap Who You Are
- You're a highly capable engineer with a strong track record of shipping AI-powered systems that people actually use.
- You bring deep technical instincts, strong product sense, and a forward-thinking view of where AI is heading.
- Experience designing and scaling AI products, platforms, or developer tools with real users and real reliability constraints
- Deep familiarity with the modern AI ecosystem: model APIs, agent frameworks, evals, retrieval, prompting, tool use, and the tradeoffs between them
- Excellent communicator and collaborator, able to drive alignment across engineering, design, product, and go-to-market How You Think & Work
- Leverage mindset: You see AI as a way to reshape how teams and customers think, plan, and execute, not just a feature to bolt on
- Context is key: You understand that AI is most powerful when grounded in real data, workflows, and decisions
- Systems thinking: You see across disparate tools, data sources, and teams, and connect them into cohesive, contextual AI-powered experiences
- Product thinking: You blend technical execution with product intuition to build AI experiences that people genuinely love to use Our values:
- Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 23 quarters in a row on G2.
- We care a lot about product innovation. We've made significant investments in talent and infrastructure to build the most powerful AI analytics platform on the market.
Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years building production LLM or applied AI systems •
Benefits
- Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions.
- Vision leads utility: You listen closely to users and customers, but you also anticipate their needs and lead with creative, forward-looking solutions
- We care about the well-being of our team: We offer competitive pay and
- benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.
- Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans
- 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of your eligible pay each pay period up to $2,000 annually
- Flexible time off, paid holidays, and more
- Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), new hire home office equipment, and much more Excellent Parental
- benefits including: 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support
- We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
- This role is eligible for equity,
- benefits and other forms of compensation.
- Based on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range: $227,000 - $341,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
- New York City salary range: $254,000 - $381,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
- Salary range: $254,000 - $381,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
- California salary range: $227,000 - $341,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
- Washington salary range: $227,000 - $341,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
- Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only: unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans.
- Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan. #LI-SA1 #LI-Hybrid
Contact
- Learn more at amplitude.com .
- Any emails from the Amplitude recruiting team will come from an @ amplitude.com email address.
Additional details
- Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams.
- As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values.
- We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do.
- We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive. About the Role
- Strong product sense and systems thinking; you know when to prototype, when to harden, and when to invest in durable infrastructure
- Highest-leverage problem identification: You consistently spot the highest-value opportunities and use data to focus effort where it matters most
- Driving adoption & evangelism: You get capabilities into users' hands, onboard them effectively, and evolve based on feedback
- At Amplitude, our values guide how we show up for one another and for our customers:
- Humility: We operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
- Ownership: We take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared company success.