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Backed by Sequoia, Accel, and Y Combinator, we're expanding from commission management into sales planning and enterprise performance management-all domains ripe for AI innovation.\nAbout the Role\nCaptivateIQ is building AI capabilities that will transform how enterprises manage sales performance. We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to set the technical strategy for our Agentic SDK team, an internal developer platform that enables product teams across the company to build AI-powered features.\nThis is a strategic technical leadership role with multi-year, multi-team scope. You'll define the architecture and technical direction for AI at CaptivateIQ, making decisions that have no clear answer and partnering with senior Engineering, Product, and Design leadership to shape our long-term vision. You'll be responsible for technical choices that affect the entire organization, from platform design to engineering-wide quality standards.\nAs the technical anchor on a small, high-impact team, you'll lead by influence across organizational boundaries. You'll drive alignment between product teams consuming the Agentic SDK and the platform capabilities we build. You'll establish the bar for engineering excellence and invest deeply in coaching P4 engineers toward staff-level impact.\nThis is a rare greenfield opportunity to define how AI gets built at a growing enterprise software company. You'll shape not just the technology, but the culture and practices that scale with the organization.\nResponsibilities\nSet the multi-year technical strategy for AI platform development, partnering with senior EPD leadership on long-term vision\nArchitect foundational AI systems that serve multiple product teams, including LLM orchestration frameworks, MCP infrastructure, and agent patterns\nOwn technical decisions with organization-wide impact where the right answer is ambiguous or contested\nDefine engineering-wide quality standards and best practices for AI development, establishing patterns that scale across teams\nDrive technical alignment across the Agentic SDK team and product teams consuming AI capabilities\nInvest deeply in coaching P4 engineers, helping them develop toward staff-level scope and strategic thinking\nRepresent CaptivateIQ's technical perspective in industry discussions, open-source contributions, or technical publications\nRequirements\n8+ years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated progression into staff-level technical leadership\nDeep expertise in LLM orchestration: production experience building agent frameworks, including agent design patterns, tool integration, and workflow optimization\nSignificant experience designing MCP integrations and knowledge systems at scale, including tool server architecture, embedding pipelines, and context optimization\nTrack record of setting technical strategy that spans multiple teams and multi-year time horizons\nExperience partnering with senior leadership (Directors, VPs) to align technical direction with business objectives\nDemonstrated ability to make high-stakes technical decisions under extreme ambiguity\nStrong mentorship track record, particularly in developing senior engineers toward staff-level impact\nDemonstrated curiosity and continuous learning in the rapidly evolving AI/LLM space\nBonus Points\n Strong proficiency in Python and experience with Django or similar backend frameworks\nFull-stack capabilities with React and TypeScript\nExperience building and scaling internal AI/ML platforms or developer experience infrastructure\nFamiliarity with LLM orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, or equivalent)\nDeep expertise in advanced agent architectures: multi-agent coordination, autonomous planning, or complex tool ecosystems\nExperience with AI evaluation, observability, and production monitoring at enterprise scale\nPublished technical writing, conference talks, or significant open-source contributions in AI/ML\nBackground building AI-powered products that shipped to enterprise customers with measurable business impact\nExperience at a B2B SaaS company during periods of significant growth or platform expansion\nFamiliarity with sales performance management, incentive compensation, or adjacent enterprise domains\nNotice to Prospective Candidates:\nOnly emails from @captivateiq.com should be trusted. We are aware of active recruitment scams using the CaptivateIQ name, in which individuals pose as our recruiters and post fake remote job openings and make fake job offers on the Internet. Please note, we will never do the following:\nAttempt to correspond with a candidate using a free web-based account, such as an email address that ends in @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, etc.\nMake an offer of employment without conducting multiple rounds of interviews face-to-face using secure video-conferencing technology.\nAsk candidates to cash checks to buy equipment on behalf of CaptivateIQ.\nAsk candidates to make a payment in order to be considered for a position.\nMake early requests for candidates' personal information such as date of birth, passport details, credit card numbers, bank details and social security number, etc.\nPlease note that we’ll only ask for more sensitive personal information in connection with background checks after an offer is made.\nCaptivateIQ works with a third-party Employer of Record to handle compliance, payroll, and as applicable benefits on our behalf\nParticipate in an on-call rotation to provide after-hours support, ensuring timely resolution of critical issues and maintaining system uptime.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5747,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Poland","iso":"PL","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Sales Enablement"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-03-30T19:22:28Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":24,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.669,"p_room":0.36,"age_days":200,"expected_fill_days":119,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/captivateiq-staff-software-engineer-ai-platform","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/captivateiq-staff-software-engineer-ai-platform.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-18T04:39:55Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6959,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-19T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3851},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3851"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcaptivateiq-staff-software-engineer-ai-platform"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcaptivateiq-staff-software-engineer-ai-platform"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcaptivateiq-staff-software-engineer-ai-platform"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/captivateiq-staff-software-engineer-ai-platform\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcaptivateiq-staff-software-engineer-ai-platform"}]}