Staff Software Developer, AI (USA)

Do you want to empower organizations to build smarter compensation strategies while ensuring fair pay for all employees?

Syndio is a Series C technology company leveraging advanced technology and responsible AI to accelerate decision-making, streamline compliance, and democratize insights for consistent, equitable compensation practices at scale. Backed by $83M in investments from Bessemer Venture Partners, Voyager Capital, and Emerson Collective, we are expanding our team and products to help companies align their rewards strategies with their business goals.

Our customers are our greatest asset. Syndio partners with many of the world’s most recognized and respected enterprises, helping them implement leading-edge compensation solutions with expert guidance. We analyze pay for over 10 million employees across dozens of countries, ensuring fair, defensible rewards that drive better business outcomes.

Join us in our mission to help companies make smarter pay decisions they can trust!

About The Role We are seeking a talented Staff-level AI Developer to join our applied AI team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling our AI systems that solve complex problems related to compensation and compliance. You’ll work closely in a cross-functional squad that includes data scientists, software engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders.

You will have the opportunity to work at the forefront of AI innovation–exploring emerging tools and techniques while translating them into production-ready solutions that deliver real business impact.

Why This Job Is Exciting

• Design, develop, and deploy production AI/ML systems that deliver business impact to our customers.
• Build and maintain LLM-based applications leveraging context engineering techniques and toolsets.
• Collaborate with data scientists to transition approved proof of concepts from a research environment into production.
• Integrate AI capabilities into existing products and services through APIs and microservices.
• Design and implement evaluation frameworks to assess model accuracy, reliability, and task-specific performance.
• Monitor production performance and implement optimizations based on evaluation metrics and real-world usage patterns.
• Stay up-to-date with the rapid changes in the AI landscape (e.g., new foundation models, quantization techniques) and prototype new ideas quickly.

About You

• Proficiency developing clean modular and efficient code with Python
• Track record building and deploying AI systems within Google Cloud Platform, familiarity with BigQuery, Firebase, and Vertex AI
• Working knowledge of Google Gemini, OpenAI, and Anthropic APIs
• Familiarity with evaluation methodologies for assessing LLM accuracy, hallucinations, and task-specific performance
• Exposure to—or strong interest in—vector databases, semantic search, agent frameworks, and protocols like MCP for connecting AI systems to external tools and data sources
• Fluent with AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub CoPilot)
• Foundational knowledge of machine learning concepts, model architectures, and LLM capabilities and constraints
• Natural curiosity and passion for staying current with rapidly evolving AI technologies
• Ability to balance innovation with practical business requirements
• Adaptable when navigating ambiguity and rapidly shifting priorities
• Comfortable communicating technical concepts and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders

Bonus Points

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or quantitative field OR equivalent hands-on experience in a related professional industry

How We Work We believe in starting simple, soon — progress over perfection. We value architectural clarity and execution speed. You’ll be joining a small, ambitious team committed to high trust, low ego collaboration. It’s a dynamic environment where teams embrace ambiguity , adapt quickly to change, and move fast to seize opportunity . As such, we empower engineers to make bold moves and back it up with a culture that supports learning through iteration. Why You’ll Love It Here

• 💰 Competitive Compensation. For this role our base salary is targeted at $215-255k USD. Final offer amounts are determined by factors such as experience and expertise. We take a geo neutral approach to compensation …