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Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform

CaptivateIQ· Engineering
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Hybrid (Poland)Full-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer to define technical strategy for CaptivateIQ's AI platform and Agentic SDK, leading multi-team AI initiatives with a focus on LLM orchestration, MCP integrations, and scalable AI tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Set the multi-year technical strategy for AI platform development, partnering with senior EPD leadership on long-term vision
  • Architect foundational AI systems that serve multiple product teams, including LLM orchestration frameworks, MCP infrastructure, and agent patterns
  • Own technical decisions with organization-wide impact where the right answer is ambiguous or contested
  • Define engineering-wide quality standards and best practices for AI development, establishing patterns that scale across teams
  • Drive technical alignment across the Agentic SDK team and product teams consuming AI capabilities
  • Invest deeply in coaching P4 engineers, helping them develop toward staff-level scope and strategic thinking
  • Represent CaptivateIQ's technical perspective in industry discussions, open-source contributions, or technical publications

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated progression into staff-level technical leadership
  • Deep expertise in LLM orchestration: production experience building agent frameworks, including agent design patterns, tool integration, and workflow optimization
  • Significant experience designing MCP integrations and knowledge systems at scale, including tool server architecture, embedding pipelines, and context optimization
  • Track record of setting technical strategy that spans multiple teams and multi-year time horizons
  • Experience partnering with senior leadership (Directors, VPs) to align technical direction with business objectives
  • Demonstrated ability to make high-stakes technical decisions under extreme ambiguity
  • Strong mentorship track record, particularly in developing senior engineers toward staff-level impact
  • Demonstrated curiosity and continuous learning in the rapidly evolving AI/LLM space

Skills

Required:LLM orchestrationMCP integrations and knowledge systems

Benefits

  • Not specified in description
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Agile commission software to design, deploy & adapt commission plans.

CaptivateIQ is on a journey to modernize the world of incentive compensation. Our hope is that people will feel more connected at work if there is greater transparency in how they are rewarded for their efforts. We partner with amazing companies like Carta, Intercom, Gong, and Newfront Insurance to simplify their commissions. Since launching in 2017, we have raised $63M and are backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, Accel, S28 Capital, Amity Ventures, and Y Combinator.

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