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At Pushpay, we are building production-grade agentic systems that directly amplify how our entire engineering organization builds, ships, and operates software.\nAs a Staff AI Platform Engineer, you will operate with significant autonomy to architect, run, and scale our internal agentic platforms and developer tooling (like PR review agents, SDLC copilots, and context engines). You won't just build these systems-you will own their operational discipline, cost governance, evaluation suites, and reliability in production, acting as a force multiplier for every engineer across Pushpay.\nWhy This Role is Different\nTrue Engineering Leverage: You aren't building internal gimmicks. 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