# Staff Software Engineer - AI Copilot (Backend)

Job Description Job Summary At Zendesk, our focus is helping our customers build great relationships with their customers. Founded by three Danish entrepreneurs, Zendesk has experienced remarkable success and growth while maintaining a fun, positive, and down-to-earth culture. We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join our AI Copilot organisation. AI Copilot is a multi-million ARR product that puts AI directly into the hands of customer service agents and administrators. You will be a technical leader driving the architecture and delivery of our conversational AI backend - the system that enables admins to configure and optimize Zendesk through natural language. We ship to learn: our philosophy is to deliver early, deliver often, and iterate based on real-world customer feedback. What you'll be doing Drive the technical vision and architecture for the Admin Copilot Conversational backend - LLM orchestration, intent detection, context retrieval, and tool execution. Own end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-cutting features - from technical design through implementation, release, and production operation. Be a hands-on technical leader: set engineering standards, make key architectu

- **Id**: 3996554
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zendesk-staff-software-engineer-ai-copilot-backend>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Lisbon, Portugal, Portugal
- **Countries**: PT
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T01:25:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5852
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, CRM Software, Customer Support & Help Desk Software

## Company

- **Id**: 369
- **Name**: Zendesk
- **Domain**: zendesk.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zendesk>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 29
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.552
- **Repost share**: 0.069
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 32
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **dbt** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Metaflow** — Optional: no
- **MLFlow** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Ruby** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: yes
- **MySQL** — Optional: yes
- **Vercel AI SDK** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T01:25:25Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T04:13:12Z

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