Senior AI Engineer

Senior AI Engineer role at Amplitude, onsite in San Francisco, CA, with a salary range of USD 190,000 - 316,000 per year.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high impact AI capabilities and features that redefine how customers and internal teams work, spanning agentic workflows and embedded intelligence across the Amplitude platform.
• Design and implement the core infrastructure for Amplitude's AI stack, including orchestration, evaluation, retrieval, context handling, and integrations with the broader product ecosystem.
• Pinpoint high leverage opportunities by deeply understanding user workflows, customer pain points, and evolving AI capabilities.
• Create reusable patterns, primitives, and components that enable engineers to ship AI features with confidence and consistency.
• Foster adoption and quality through close collaboration with product, design, and customer facing teams, focusing on real usage and measurable outcomes.
• Define the technical direction for Amplitude's AI systems, balance build versus buy decisions, shape evaluation approaches, and influence the long term roadmap.

Requirements

• Minimum 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 used by real users under real reliability constraints.
• Strong familiarity with the modern AI ecosystem, including model APIs, agent frameworks, evals, retrieval, prompting, tool use, and tradeoffs among approaches.
• Solid product sense and systems thinking; know when to prototype, harden, or invest in durable infrastructure.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator, able to align engineering, design, product, and go to market teams.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with employer paid premiums for employee plans on select options.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching up to 1% per pay period, up to $2,000 annually.
• Flexible time off, paid holidays, and additional programs.
• Generous stipends for wellness, commuting, learning and development, home office setup, and more.
• Parental benefits include 12 weeks paid parental leave, Carrot fertility/adoption/surrogacy support, and backup child care.
• Mental health support with no cost access to Modern Health coaching and therapy sessions.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer to advance Amplitude's AI products and the foundations they rely on. As AI reshapes how customers analyze data, build products, and act on insights, you will blend deep technical work with product judgment to ship AI capabilities that customers and internal teams rely on. This role is both visionary and hands-on: you will identify where AI delivers the most leverage, build the systems that deliver it, and establish patterns that let the rest of the company move 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: We operate with empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
• Ownership: We take initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success.
• Growth Mindset: We persist through challenges and seek feedback to grow ourselves and others.
• Customer Centricity: The customer sits at the center of everything we do, and their success is our priority.

How You Think & Work

• Leverage mindset: View AI as a way to reshape how teams and customers plan, decide, and execute, not merely as a feature add-on.
• Context is key: Ground AI in real data, workflows, and decisions to maximize impact.
• Vision leads utility: Balance listening to users with proactively delivering forward looking solutions.
• Build to learn: Favor rapid iteration, usage based validation, and continuous improvement over upfront perfection.

What Sets You Apart

• Highest leverage problem identification: Consistently spot high value opportunities and focus effort with data.
• Systems thinking: Connect disparate tools, data sources, and teams into cohesive AI powered experiences.
• Hands on design and implementation of agentic systems: Build robust agentic workflows with strong context handling, orchestration, tool use, and evaluation.
• Build vs. buy judgment: Know when to reuse existing solutions or build from scratch.
• Driving adoption & evangelism: Get capabilities into users' hands, onboard effectively, and iterate from feedback.
• Product thinking: Combine technical execution with product intuition to craft AI experiences users love.

About Amplitude

• Our customers love us, named the #1 product analytics solution for 23 quarters in a row on G2.
• We invest heavily in product innovation and infrastructure to build a powerful AI analytics platform.
• We support our people with mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.
• We provide charitable giving grants and paid volunteer time off for every Ampliteer.
• Founded in 2012, direct listed in September 2021, trading under the ticker AMPL.
• Global and fast growing, with offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
• Our mascot is the Data Monster, who loves numbers, charts, and graphs.