Software Engineer

About the Position

Software Engineer

At MAI, we're on a mission to democratize advanced advertising technology. We believe that cutting-edge marketing tools, once exclusive to large enterprises with massive budgets, should be accessible to everyone. Our platform uses AI agents to automate and optimize performance marketing, empowering small and mid-sized businesses to scale their ad spend profitably without the need for an agency or endless hours of manual campaign management.

Responsibilities

• Build the Agent's Operating System: Design and build our core agentic platform. This is the engine that allows us to craft, manage, and continuously improve our autonomous agents by orchestrating complex workflows, enabling long-term memory, and integrating human feedback loops.
• Engineer the Data Engine: Architect our foundational data and signal platform using a modern lakehouse architecture. You'll build the robust pipelines and ML serving systems that fuel our agents with the critical, real-time signals they need to make intelligent, high-stakes decisions.
• Create World-Class Tools for AI: An agent is only as good as its tools. You will build a suite of powerful, reliable, and safe "tool machines" that allow our agents to interact with the world-executing code in a secure Python sandbox, manipulating data, and calling third-party APIs accurately.
• Ship an Exceptional Product Experience: You will build our customer-facing applications, including a seamless chat UI where users collaborate with their AI partners. You'll also own the reliable and scalable serving infrastructure required to deliver a world-class, 24/7 experience.
• Bring Models to Life: You will collaborate closely with data scientists to build the MLOps infrastructure for training, fine-tuning, and deploying state-of-the-art reasoning models that form the core of our agents’ intelligence.

Requirements

• A Master’s or PhD’s degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field, OR a Bachelor's degree with 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python and a passion for writing clean, scalable, and maintainable code.
• You are a product-minded engineer who cares deeply about the end-user and is excited to bridge the gap between complex backend systems and a delightful user experience.
• You are a systems-level thinker, capable of navigating ambiguity and designing for scalability, reliability, and extensibility.

Nice to Have

• Data Engineering: Building ETL / streaming pipelines, working with technologies like Spark, Airflow, dbt, or building on a lakehouse architecture.
• Machine Learning: Experience with ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) or MLOps infrastructure (e.g., MLflow, Kubernetes, serving systems).
• Agentic AI / LLMs: Hands-on experience developing with Large Language Models, agentic frameworks (like LangGraph), or building RAG systems.

We Offer

• Compensation: Salary range of $160,000 to $225,000 depending on your years of experience.
• Equity: We offer meaningful equity to make you feel invested in our mission.
• Health and Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.
• 401(k): Competitive 401(k) program to help you build for your future.

About the Company

At MAI, we're a tight-knit team of passionate builders who value transparency, first-principles thinking, and a relentless drive to solve hard problems together. We believe in empowering our team, giving you significant autonomy over your work and a clear path for growth as the company scales.

Are you ready to build the future with us? We believe in a holistic approach to hiring. If you're passionate about our mission and have a drive to learn and grow, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. We value potential, curiosity, and hunger. We can't wait to hear from you.