# Staff Engineer, AI

LiteLLM is the world’s most popular AI Gateway, trusted by companies like Adobe, Netflix, and NASA. We’ve grown ARR 6x in the last year to nearly $30M with a team of 20, and developers use LiteLLM to call 100+ LLM providers through one API. We're looking for a Staff Engineer to lead our unified API team and make sure every new model and provider works with LiteLLM on day one. About the role This is a hands-on technical lead role. You'll own how LiteLLM unifies LLM APIs across the OpenAI and Anthropic specs, lead the engineers who build it, and set the bar for what good looks like. Every week a provider ships something new: a new API, a new modality, a new feature. The promise of LiteLLM is that it works with all of them on day one. Your job is to keep that promise: new endpoints ship on day one, open source translation issues go down, and developers can count on LiteLLM to keep up. You’ll lead our open source pod, where most issues are LLM translation issues. You’ll report to the CEO, and later to our Head of Engineering. This role is in person in San Francisco. We help with relocation and support H-1B transfers. Responsibilities Lead the unified API team and own new model, endpoin

- **Id**: 3972790
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/litellm-staff-engineer-ai>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T14:41:17Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T16:49:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3874
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: LLM & Generative AI, AI Compute & Inference, AI Development Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 20631
- **Name**: LiteLLM
- **Domain**: litellm.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/litellm>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 46
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 250000
- **Max**: 350000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 350000

## Technologies

- **Anthropic** — Optional: no
- **LiteLLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: yes
- **Fivetran** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes
- **OpenRouter** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **Redis** — Optional: yes
- **Rust** — Optional: yes
- **Vercel AI SDK** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T16:49:48Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 46
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T19:14:58Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 350000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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