Software Engineer, AI Capture

Senior Software Engineer

Prolific

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER  Engineering  Prolific Prolific is not just another player in the AI space – we are the architects of the human data infrastructure that's reshaping the landscape of AI development. In a world where foundational AI technologies are increasingly commoditized, it's the quality and diversity of human-generated data that truly differentiates products and models.   The role We’re looking for impact-focused Software Generalists to join our specialized team focused on serving frontier model creators and enterprise AI application developers. As a full-stack engineer, you will work across Prolific’s domains to solve customer and product problems. This is an exciting opportunity to work directly with frontier AI companies, making critical technical decisions that balance scrappy startup execution with scalable, reliable engineering, as Prolific revolutionizes research for the AI community. You'll will have regular in person collaboration with customers and our US team, as well as collaborate closely with our UK-based tech teams. This role is hybrid based out of our San Francisco office, approx 1-2 days a week.   What you’ll bring to the role * Over 4 years of experience in a product engineering role * Can translate business concepts into software models * Ability to quickly learn and adapt across the breadth of Prolific’s domains * Familiar working in both monoliths and distributed systems * Strong communication and collaboration skills for direct customer interaction * Good understanding of modern web applications and architecture design patterns * Experience supporting applications in production environments * Judgment to balance scrappy startup execution with scalable, reliable engineering * Comfort with rapid iteration and responding to customer queries with urgency * Experience with some of our technology stack: * Python (we use Django & Fast API) * TypeScript and JavaScript (we use Vue.js) * SQL and NoSQL databases (we use MongoDB and PostgresSQL) * Building and deploying to the cloud (we use GCP, Kubernetees, Github Actions & CircleCI) * Instrumenting, monitoring & observability (we use Datadog)     What you’ll be doing in the role  This is a unique engineering role at Prolific. In this role, you will operate with high ownership and a product mindset, at start-up pace, to solve customer problems and capture business opportunities irrespective of the technology required to do so. You will be part of a cross-functional Product Engineering team, optimised for the success of a single customer group. You will collaborate directly with account managers, customer success specialists and customers to deeply understand their problem spaces. You will ideate and build with autonomy, supported by a high-performing team. This role will see you work across Prolific domains to solve customer problems, needing you to get up to speed quickly and deliver across shared codebases to a high engineering standard. You will also help support our systems in production & respond to incidents when required.     Key Technologies  * Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform and AWS * Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript * Frameworks: Vue.js, Django Rest Framework, Container-based and Serverless architectures * Databases: MongoDB and DynamoDB * DevOps and Monitoring: CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Celery, EventBridge and DataDog   Why Prolific is a great place to work We've built a unique platform that connects researchers and companies with a global pool of participants, enabling the collection of high-quality, ethically sourced human behavioral data and feedback. This data is the cornerstone of developing more accurate, nuanced, and aligned AI systems. We believe that the next leap in AI capabilities won't come solely from scaling existing models, but from integrating diverse human perspectives and behaviors into AI development. By providing this crucial human data infrastructure, Prolific is positioning itself at the forefront of the next wave of AI innovation – one that reflects the breath and the best of humanity. Join us to enjoy a competitive salary, benefits, and remote working within our impactful, mission-driven culture. At Prolific, our compensation packages for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. Many roles also include the opportunity to earn a cash variable element, such as a bonus or commission. Each job posting shows a salary range that reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hires, based on the role’s location as well as your skills, experience, and relevant education or training. You can check the job posting’s subtitle to see where the position is based. Your recruiter will also be happy to share the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. For pay transparency, the base salary range for this full-time role in San Francisco is $250,000 - $300,000 per annum.   Links to more information on Prolific Benefits  External Handbook  Website  Youtube    Privacy Statement By submitting your application, you agree that Prolific may collect your personal data for recruiting and global organisation planning. Prolific's Candidate Privacy Notice explains what personal information Prolific may process, where Prolific may process your personal information, its purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Prolific use of your personal information.

Forward Deployed Engineer

Figma

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! Forward Deployed Engineers at Figma sit at the intersection of engineering, product, and our most strategic customers. In this role, you’ll work hands-on with customers adopting emerging Figma developer workflows, starting with Make Local, to understand their technical environments, unblock implementation, and translate real-world deployment patterns into product and engineering insights. You’ll partner closely with Customer Experience, Solutions Consulting, Sales, Product, and Engineering to help customers get to value faster while shaping how Figma builds and scales a new Forward Deployed Engineering motion. This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States. WHAT YOU'LL DO AT FIGMA: * Partner directly with strategic customers to understand their technical goals, workflows, codebase environments, and implementation constraints * Lead technical discovery and readiness assessments for customer deployments, including repo/environment setup, permissions, configuration needs, and potential adoption blockers * Provide hands-on implementation support for Make Local and related developer-facing workflows, including setup guidance, debugging, escalation triage, and recommendations on technical implementation patterns * Work closely with Customer Enablement Managers, Solutions Consultants, Sales, and account teams to align on customer goals, stakeholders, success criteria, timelines, and account context * Capture and synthesize product gaps, bugs, workflow patterns, technical blockers, and customer feedback for Product and Engineering teams * Create reusable deployment assets such as technical troubleshooting guides, readiness checklists, account intake templates, implementation playbooks, and customer-facing enablement materials * Help define how Figma should measure success for forward deployed engineering engagements, including time to first workflow, setup success, adoption, active usage, customer feedback, and support effort * Contribute to the operating model for Figma’s Forward Deployed Engineering function, helping determine where FDE support is most valuable, how engagements should be scoped, and how the function should scale WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE: * Experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Software Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Technical Consultant, Sales Engineer, Developer Advocate, or similar * Strong understanding of modern software development practices, including source control, local development environments, deployment workflows, debugging, and build tooling * Proven ability to partner with enterprise customers to solve complex technical challenges and drive successful product implementations * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences across cross-functional teams * Demonstrated ability to thrive in ambiguous environments by creating scalable processes, collaborating across teams, and leveraging emerging technologies such as AI and modern developer workflows WHILE IT’S NOT REQUIRED, IT’S AN ADDED PLUS IF YOU ALSO HAVE: * Strong familiarity with developer, design, collaboration, or AI products, particularly those that connect design and engineering workflows * Proven success partnering with enterprise customers on implementation, onboarding, migrations, technical enablement, and product adoption * Solid understanding of modern engineering practices, including frontend development, design systems, component libraries, CI/CD pipelines, monorepos, and Dev Infrastructure * Demonstrated ability to build, scale, or launch customer-facing technical functions, pilot programs, services, or engineering practices * Ability to translate customer insights and deployment trends into product strategy, documentation, roadmap recommendations, and engineering priorities At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Pay Transparency Disclosure If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.     Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.  Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement.  Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future. Annual Base Salary Range: $152,800—$296,000 USD At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.  Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:  * Holding interviews in an accessible location * Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing * Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers * Changing the mode or format of interviews  To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding. By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.

Staff Product Manager, AI Platform

Databricks

RDQ427R276 Location: San Francisco or Seattle At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to tackle technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started. More about the team: The AI Platform team builds the infrastructure that powers machine learning and AI at scale on Databricks. Our products span the full ML lifecycle — from feature engineering and model training to model serving and monitoring — enabling data and AI teams to build, deploy, and operate production ML systems with confidence. We work across some of the most technically demanding areas in the platform, including recommendation systems, real-time inference, large-scale distributed training, LLM infrastructure, vector search, and feature stores. Our mission is to make it radically easier for enterprises to put AI into production. We do this by providing a unified, governed, and performant AI platform that integrates deeply with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform — connecting MLflow, Unity Catalog, Model Serving, Vector Search, Feature Engineering, LLM, and Agent infrastructure into a cohesive experience. You will join a team that ships products used by thousands of the world's most sophisticated data and AI organizations. You will drive the vision and roadmap for AI platform product areas and define how customers build, train, deploy, and monitor AI and ML systems on Databricks. You will collaborate across engineering teams to deliver an integrated and powerful path from experimentation to production. The impact you will have: * You will own the product roadmap for AI platform areas — defining what we build, why, and in what order — to accelerate customer adoption of AI and ML in production. * You will drive strategy for key AI platform capabilities, shaping how enterprises operationalize AI at scale. * You will partner closely with engineering teams to make deeply technical decisions about ML infrastructure — from distributed training architectures to real-time serving systems. * You will represent the voice of the customer by engaging directly with enterprise ML teams, translating their pain points and workflows into platform capabilities that simplify the path to production AI. * You will collaborate with GTM, Solutions Architecture, and Customer Success teams to drive enterprise adoption, shape field enablement, and inform competitive positioning. * You will define pricing, packaging, and commercialization strategy for AI platform features, working with business teams to maximize value capture. * You will grow end-user engagement with Databricks AI tools by identifying adoption bottlenecks and partnering cross-functionally to remove them. What we look for: * 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager working on platform or infrastructure products, ideally in ML/AI, data, or cloud services. * Deep technical background — CS, EE, or equivalent degree strongly preferred; former software engineer experience is a significant plus. You should be comfortable going deep on system architecture, writing technical specs, and engaging credibly with world-class ML engineers. * Experience with ML/AI infrastructure, data platforms, or cloud services (e.g., model training, model serving, feature stores, vector search, LLM infrastructure, ML pipelines, or similar systems). Familiarity with recommendation systems is a bonus. * Proven enterprise B2B product management experience with highly technical customers — you have shipped platform products, driven commercial outcomes, and worked with field teams to land enterprise deals.   Pay Range Transparency Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles.  Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.   Zone 1 Pay Range $181,700—$249,800 USD About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.