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Staff AI Engineer - San Diego

San Diego, California, United States · Hybrid

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Staff AI Engineer San Diego, CA · Hybrid · Full-Time About Cadre AI Cadre AI is an AI strategy and integration firm that builds production AI systems for B2B companies in private equity, wholesale lending, real estate, a…

Skills: Python, LLM Orchestration, RAG Pipelines, Agentic Workflows, Cloud Infrastructure

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Senior Account Executive

United States · Remote OK

Mid level

About Cadre AI Cadre AI is an AI strategy and integration firm that partners deeply with organizations to transform workflows, streamline operations, and deliver measurable business outcomes. We operate at the intersecti…

Skills: B2B Sales, Pipeline Generation, Prospecting, Consultative Selling, HubSpot

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Staff AI Engineer - Colombia

Colombia, Huila, Colombia · Remote Solely

Senior+

Staff AI Engineer Colombia · Remote · Full-Time About Cadre AI Cadre AI is an AI strategy and integration firm that builds production AI systems for B2B companies in private equity, wholesale lending, real estate, and Sa…

Skills: Python, LLM Orchestration, RAG Pipelines, Agentic Workflows, Cloud Infrastructure

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Forward Deployed AI Engineer

San Diego, California, United States · On-site

Mid level

About Cadre AI Cadre AI is an AI strategy and integration firm that builds production AI systems for B2B companies in private equity, wholesale lending, real estate, and SaaS. We don’t build decks about what AI could do.…

Skills: LLM Pipeline Design, RAG Architecture, Agent Orchestration, Typescript, Python

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Staff AI Engineer - San Diego

Cadre AI

San Diego, California, United States • Hybrid

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  • Full-time
  • Early Team Success Sharing, Access to Frontier AI Models
  • Posted 10d ago
  • ~40 hrs/week

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor the engineering team while driving the architecture and delivery of complex production AI systems for B2B clients. Act as the technical backbone for the San Diego team, translating ambiguous business problems into concrete system designs.

Requirements

Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years of building production LLM-powered systems. Must be expert in Python and cloud platforms, with demonstrated experience in technical leadership and client-facing communication.

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Staff AI Engineer
San Diego, CA ·  Hybrid ·  Full-Time

About Cadre AI

Cadre AI is an AI strategy and integration firm that builds production AI systems for B2B companies in private equity, wholesale lending, real estate, and SaaS. We do not build decks about what AI could do. We ship systems that move revenue, compress costs, and automate the work that used to take entire teams.

The Role

As Staff AI Engineer, you are the technical leader and backbone of Cadre's San Diego engineering team. At this level, your job is no longer just what you build; it is making sure every engineer around you builds better. You mentor and manage engineers, set the standard for how the team designs, reviews, and ships AI systems, and own their growth as deliberately as you own your own code.

You pair that leadership with serious technical depth. You stay hands-on with the hardest builds in our client portfolio: multi-step agent systems, complex document processing pipelines, and automations that touch core revenue operations. When a problem has ambiguous requirements or no obvious solution, the team looks to you, and clients measure the result in EBITDA impact, not demos.

You report to the Head of Client Engineering, and you will occasionally join client calls to walk stakeholders through what we are building and why. You thrive here if leveling up the people around you energizes you as much as shipping the system yourself.

What You'll Do

You are on the forefront of the technology, reimagining how Cadre does AI and delivering the high-value solutions that set us apart with clients.

Team Leadership and Mentorship
  • Manage and mentor two engineers on the San Diego team, owning their technical growth, code quality, and delivery.
  • Set the engineering bar through rigorous code review, pairing, and reference implementations the rest of the team builds on.
  • Serve as the first escalation point when engineers hit problems they cannot solve alone, teaching as you unblock.
  • Build the habits, patterns, and practices that make every engineer on the team measurably better quarter over quarter.
Technical Direction
  • Drive architecture decisions across client builds: agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, document processing, and automation running in production.
  • Evaluate new models, frameworks, and techniques as they emerge, and decide what enters Cadre's production toolkit.
  • Turn hard-won lessons from client builds into reusable internal tooling, templates, and documentation that compound across engagements.
Build and Ship Production AI Systems
  • Stay hands-on with Cadre's most complex client systems, owning delivery end to end from LLM orchestration and evaluation to data pipelines, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Make pragmatic build decisions under real constraints: client timelines, legacy systems, messy data, and measurable business outcomes on the line.
  • Ship fast without sacrificing reliability; design systems that keep working long after the engagement ends.
Client Collaboration
  • Join client calls when the conversation needs technical depth, walking stakeholders through system designs, trade-offs, and progress.
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete system designs and delivery plans clients can commit to.
  • Flag risks, trade-offs, and scope realities directly and early, protecting both the client outcome and the team's delivery.

What You Need to Succeed
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years building LLM-powered systems (RAG, agents, structured extraction) that run in production, not just prototypes or internal experiments.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership: engineers you have mentored or managed got measurably better because of your code review, pairing, and guidance, and you want direct reports as part of your role.
  • Expert-level Python and strong full-stack fundamentals, with the judgment to choose boring, reliable technology when the problem calls for it.
  • Production cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including deploying, monitoring, and maintaining systems that clients depend on daily.
  • Deep working knowledge of the modern AI stack: prompt and context engineering, evaluation, embeddings, vector search, and agent orchestration frameworks.
  • A track record of owning ambiguous, high-stakes projects end to end, from problem framing through architecture, build, and post-launch iteration.
  • Fluent English and clear communication on client calls; you can explain an architecture decision to a non-technical executive without losing them.
  • Consulting-environment adaptability: comfort switching between client contexts, industries, and codebases without losing momentum.
  • Based in San Diego, CA with reliable overlap with Colombia business hours for client and team collaboration.
  • An AI-first working style: you use these tools daily to multiply your own output and teach the team to do the same.

Why Cadre AI
  • Real leadership. You will be the technical backbone of a growing engineering team, with engineers who level up because of you and the autonomy to make the calls that matter.
  • AI-native culture. We do not just build AI for clients. We use it to run our own operations. You will work with people who are as obsessed with the tools as you are.
  • Access to the frontier. Through partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI, you will be among the first to experiment with new models and capabilities.
  • Upside. We are bootstrapped, profitable, and growing fast. Early team members share in the success they help create.
  • No bureaucracy. Small teams. Clear accountability. The best idea wins, regardless of who says it.

If you want your next five years to be measured in systems running in production, businesses that work differently because you shipped, and a team of engineers who are better because you led them, this is that role.


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About Cadre AI

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Helping businesses leverage AI to drive revenue growth, improve margins, automate workflows, and elevate their teams.

Industry
Business Consulting and Services
Company size
51-200 employees
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Diego, California
LinkedIn followers
4,502

Cadre is an AI strategy and integration firm focused on helping organizations unlock the power of AI to drive measurable business results that grow revenue, increase EBITDA, and unlock scalability. We implement best-in-class AI tools and technologies to AI-Enable your business and create a lasting competitive advantage. Our combination of entrepreneurial experience, strong operational understanding and technical AI expertise enables us to help our clients integrate cutting-edge AI technologies to drive efficiency, productivity, and growth. As a team we take an “ownership mindset” to our clients business, asking ourselves “what moves would I make if this was my business” and are committed to transforming your company into a “future-proof” organizations by leveraging the power of AI to achieve operational excellence and enhanced profitability and putting you ahead of your competitors and industry.

Offices: San Diego, California, US

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About Cadre AI

LinkedInVisit site

Helping businesses leverage AI to drive revenue growth, improve margins, automate workflows, and elevate their teams.

Industry
Business Consulting and Services
Company size
51-200 employees
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Diego, California
LinkedIn followers
4,502

Cadre is an AI strategy and integration firm focused on helping organizations unlock the power of AI to drive measurable business results that grow revenue, increase EBITDA, and unlock scalability. We implement best-in-class AI tools and technologies to AI-Enable your business and create a lasting competitive advantage. Our combination of entrepreneurial experience, strong operational understanding and technical AI expertise enables us to help our clients integrate cutting-edge AI technologies to drive efficiency, productivity, and growth. As a team we take an “ownership mindset” to our clients business, asking ourselves “what moves would I make if this was my business” and are committed to transforming your company into a “future-proof” organizations by leveraging the power of AI to achieve operational excellence and enhanced profitability and putting you ahead of your competitors and industry.

Offices: San Diego, California, US

AI IntegrationAutomationArtificial IntelligenceAI StrategyData Analyticsand Technology Integration
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