Senior Software Engineer, AI Products
Webflow, San Francisco, CA, United States
At Webflow, our mission is to bring development superpowers to everyone. Webflow is the leading visual development platform for building powerful websites without writing code. By combining modern web development technologies into one platform, Webflow enables people to build websites visually, saving engineering time, while clean code seamlessly generates in the background. From independent designers and creative agencies to Fortune 500 companies, millions worldwide use Webflow to be more nimble, creative, and collaborative. It’s the web, made better.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Applied AI team to help us build generative AI-powered features. The Applied AI team’s goal is to enhance the speed, creativity, and quality when building and designing websites through the power of AI, in pursuit of our mission to bring development superpowers to everyone around the world. This role will collaborate directly with product and ML engineers, product managers and designers to identify and implement AI solutions that improve the Webflow user experience, while cultivating an environment of excellence, care, and curiosity.
About the role
- Location: Remote-first (United States; BC & ON, Canada)
- Full-time
- Exempt
- Reporting to a Senior Engineering Manager
As a Senior Software Engineer, AI Products, you’ll…
- Stay up-to-date on AI/ML ecosystem advancements to assess their relevance to Webflow’s product strategy.
- Develop and integrate third-party AI APIs into the product's architecture.
- Be comfortable with making decisions with incomplete information and adjusting priorities as new insights emerge.
- Work closely with the product and design teams, owning and iterating on the solution together.
- Improve developer processes for building LLM-powered applications, helping to establish best practices in prompt engineering, experimentation, and quality assessments.
- Develop a deep understanding of our architecture and codebase while also learning about our product and the customers that use it.
- Build and maintain tests and evaluation and monitoring of generative AI outputs.
About you
You’ll thrive as a Senior Software Engineer, AI Products if you…
- Have 5+ years of experience in full-stack, product-focused software engineering, with a proven track record of shipping impactful products to market.
- Bring 1+ years of hands-on experience building products that leverage AI/ML technologies to solve real-world problems.
- Are highly proficient in JavaScript and/or TypeScript.
- Have an intuition of AI/ML concepts and technologies, such as large language models, vector databases, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and prompt engineering.
- Have experience measuring and improving the quality of large language model outputs through the use of techniques like prompt engineering and fine tuning.
- Have strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug production issues across multiple layers of the stack efficiently and effectively.
- Demonstrate exceptional organizational and communication skills, capable of breaking down complex technical ideas for both engineering and non-engineering audiences.
- Are passionate about delivering business value through fast iteration, with a bias toward shipping early and often.
- Take ownership of your work and are motivated by driving projects to impactful, measurable outcomes.
- Thrive in collaborative, cross-functional teams, and are excited to mentor and contribute to the team’s overall success.
Our Core Behaviors:
- Obsess over customer experience. We deeply understand what we’re building and who we’re building for and serving.
- Move with heartfelt urgency. We have a healthy relationship with impatience, channeling it thoughtfully to show up better and faster for our customers and for each other.
- Say the hard thing with care. Our best work often comes from intelligent debate, critique, and even difficult conversations.
- Make your mark. We seek out new and unique ways to create meaningful impact, and we champion the same from our colleagues.
Benefits & wellness
- Equity ownership (RSUs) in a growing, privately-owned company
- 100% employer-paid healthcare, vision, and dental insurance coverage for employees and dependents (full-time employees working 30+ hours per week)
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both birthing and non-birthing caregivers, as well as an additional 6-8 weeks of pregnancy disability for birthing parents.
- Flexible PTO with a mandatory annual minimum of 10 days paid time off for all locations.
- Access to mental wellness and professional coaching, therapy, and Employee Assistance Program.
- Monthly stipends to support health and wellness, smart work, and professional growth.
- Professional career coaching, internal learning & development programs.
- 401k plan and pension schemes (in countries where statutorily required).
- Discounted Pet Insurance offering (US only).
- Commuter benefits for in-office employees.
Temporary employees are not eligible for paid holiday time off, accrued paid time off, paid leaves of absence, or company-sponsored perks unless otherwise required by law.
Remote, together
At Webflow, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are an Equal Opportunity (EEO)/Veterans/Disabled Employer and are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences.
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