Senior AI Engineer

Senior AI Engineer at Amplitude drives AI product development and platform infrastructure, shipping capabilities customers rely on and guiding the platform's AI systems roadmap.

Job details

• Location: San Francisco, CA (onsite)
• Salary: USD 190,000 - 316,000 per year
• Experience required: 3+ years

Responsibilities

• Deliver high impact AI features and products that transform how customers and internal teams work, spanning agentic workflows to embedded intelligence across the Amplitude platform
• Architect and build the core infrastructure for Amplitude's AI systems, including 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
• Create reusable patterns, primitives, and components to enable other engineers to ship AI features reliably and consistently
• Drive adoption and quality through close collaboration with product, design, and customer-facing teams, with a focus on real usage and measurable outcomes
• Set the technical direction for AI systems at Amplitude, making thoughtful build vs buy decisions, shaping evaluation strategy, and influencing the long-term roadmap

Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years building production LLM or applied AI systems
• Experience designing and scaling AI products, platforms, or developer tools with real users and reliability constraints
• Deep familiarity with the modern AI landscape: model APIs, agent frameworks, evals, retrieval, prompting, tool use, and the tradeoffs between approaches
• Strong product sense and systems thinking; know when to prototype, harden, or invest in durable infrastructure
• Excellent communicator and collaborator, able to align across engineering, design, product, and go-to-market

Benefits

• Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision coverage, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans
• 401(k) with employer match of up to 1% of eligible pay per pay period, up to $2,000 annually
• Flexible time off, paid holidays, and more
• Generous stipends for wellness, commuter transit/parking, learning and development, new hire home office equipment, and other needs
• Parental benefits including 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility benefits for adoption and surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care
• Mental health and wellness benefits with no-cost access to Modern Health coaching and therapy
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

About the role

• We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer to advance Amplitude's AI products and the foundational systems they rely on. As AI reshapes data analysis, product development, and action on insights, we need engineers who balance deep technical work with product judgment to ship AI capabilities that customers and internal teams depend on
• The role combines vision and hands-on work. You will identify where AI yields the most leverage, build the systems that deliver it, and establish patterns that enable the broader company to build faster on top of your work
• You will contribute to customer-facing AI products, the platform infrastructure beneath them, and the internal tooling that helps Amplitude operate as an AI-native company

Our values

• Humility: Empathy and openness to multiple perspectives
• Ownership: Proactive problem solving that advances company success
• Growth Mindset: Tenacity and openness to feedback for personal and team growth
• Customer Centricity: Keeping customers at the center of decisions and outcomes

How you think & work

• Leverage mindset: View AI as a strategic transformer of how teams plan and execute, not just a bolt-on feature
• Context is key: Ground AI in real data, workflows, and decisions
• Vision leads utility: Balance listening to users with forward-looking solutions
• Build to learn: Favor rapid iteration, usage-based validation, and ongoing improvement

What sets you apart

• High-leverage problem identification: Consistently target the areas with the greatest impact using data to guide focus
• Systems thinking: Connect disparate tools, data sources, and teams into cohesive AI-powered experiences
• Hands-on design of agentic systems: Ship robust agentic workflows with strong context handling, orchestration, tool use, and evaluation
• Build vs buy judgment: Know when to leverage existing solutions or create custom ones
• Adoption & evangelism: Drive user adoption, provide effective onboarding, and iterate from feedback
• Product thinking: Combine technical execution with product intuition to deliver AI experiences users love

About Amplitude — fun facts

• Customers rate Amplitude as the #1 product analytics solution for 23 quarters in a row on G2
• Significant investments in talent and infrastructure to build a powerful AI analytics platform
• Programs for mentorship, management training, and wellness initiatives
• Charitable giving grants and paid volunteer time off for every Ampliteer
• Founded in 2012, went public via direct listing in September 2021, ticker $AMPL
• Global team with offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo
• Our mascot is Data Monster, a playful symbol of our love for numbers and charts