# Staff Software Engineer, AI

Why Drillbit Mission: Drillbit’s mission is to make housing more affordable How: Residential contractors spend exorbitant amounts on customer acquisition due to wasteful human-driven administrative practices. This inefficiency inflates the cost of basic services, hurting everyone in America. Drillbit provides AI office workers to eliminate that waste, and allow businesses to get back to the work they were hired for. Stage: Drillbit is a YC startup that has raised $4.4 million. Mason, our AI employee, has generated over $95M in GMV for our customers across over 90k opportunities. He is booking jobs at a rate 3x greater than the best human CSRs at a small fraction of their cost. In the past 12 months, Drillbit has sustained 42% month-over-month growth, building a $98M ARR sales pipeline. Role Overview We’re looking for a sharp, highly technical AI Engineer to join our 7-person engineering team in Austin, TX. You’ll be on the frontlines designing and deploying cutting-edge AI systems that power Mason and the next generation of Drillbit products. This is an in-person role (9 to 7, Monday to Friday), perfect for a relentless self-starter who thrives in fast-paced startup energy and want

- **Id**: 1238765
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/drillbit-staff-software-engineer-ai>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T16:29:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T16:47:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 49
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2945
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Relocation assistance, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Construction Management Software, Manufacturing & Industrial Software

## Company

- **Id**: 2141370
- **Name**: Drillbit
- **Domain**: drillbit.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/drillbit-com>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 190000
- **Max**: 300000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 300000

## Technologies

- **LiveKit** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Next.js** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Speech Recognition** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Anthropic** — Optional: yes
- **ESLint** — Optional: yes
- **Jest** — Optional: yes
- **Node JS** — Optional: yes
- **npm** — Optional: yes
- **OpenAI** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **RAG** — Optional: yes
- **Tailwind CSS** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 49

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T16:29:51Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 36
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.661
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 47
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 300000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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