Staff Software Engineer, Gustie Assist
GustoSan Francisco, New York, DenverFull TimeEngineering
Remotely
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Job Description
📋 Description
- Design and build across the Otto platform, including the runtime and agent graph, the tool/action
- Expand what the agent can safely do: autonomous, tool-using actions with human-in-the-loop
- Build the eval and observability systems (LLM-as-judge + deterministic scorers, offline gates and
- Work directly with LLMs, including prompting, tool/function design, retrieval, and the feedback
- Partner closely with Product, Data, Design, and CX teams to turn advocate and customer pain into
- Mentor engineers and set the bar for how we build agentic systems responsibly and at scale
🎯 Requirements
- Typically 8+ years of software engineering experience, owning systems end-to-end
- You\'ve built and shipped LLM-powered or agentic systems in production, including
- Strong full-stack range. Must be comfortable moving between backend services, an LLM runtime, and
- Experience owning multi-quarter projects that make measurable user impact at scale
- Sound judgment about safety and blast radius when software takes real actions on real accounts
- Ability to mentor engineers and raise the bar around you
🎁 Benefits
- Competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) — because everyone who helps build Gusto should
- Opportunity to work with AI and grow fluency as the technology evolves