Staff AI Engineer, AI Tools
Staff AI Engineer, AI Tools
Employer Active
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Share
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
$ 244000 - 368000
1 Vacancy
Job Description
Amplitude is the leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. Over 4000 customers including Atlassian NBCUniversal Under Armour Shopify and Jersey Mikes rely on Amplitude to gain selfservice visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust uncover clear insights about customer behavior and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products they can deliver better product experiences that drive growth. Amplitude is the bestinclass analytics solution for product data and marketing teams ranked #1 in multiple categories in G2s Spring 2025 Report. Learn how to optimize your digital products and business at.
As an organization we approach challenges with humility take ownership of our contributions and embrace a growth mindset that pushes us to constantly improve ourselves each other and the value we bring to customers and partners.
Amplitudes Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI):Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products improves the ability to solve complex problems and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusionone focused on psychological safety empathy and human connectionthat will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.
About the Role
Were looking for a Staff AI Engineer to lead the development of internal AI tools that transform how product development happens at Amplitude. Product teamsengineers designers and product managersspend significant time on fragmented manual tasks like synthesizing feedback drafting PRDs and validating impact. This role exists to embed AI directly into those workflows: automating the repetitive amplifying human judgment and helping Amplitude operate as an AInative company.
Youll be both a visionary and a builderidentifying whats possible before its asked for while also delivering practical highleverage tools. Youll improve foundational workflows across teams while contributing to the longterm strategy and infrastructure behind Amplitudes AI systems.
What Youll Do
- Ship impactful AI tooling that streamlines and improves product development workflowshelping engineers designers and PMs move faster and smarter
- Identify highleverage opportunities by deeply understanding internal pain points and designing solutions that embed AI seamlessly into daytoday work
- Build foundational infrastructure for internal AI toolsscalable privacyaware systems integrated with platforms like Salesforce Jira Zoom Productboard and Slack
- Establish reusable patterns and components to enable other teams to extend and build on top of your work fostering a culture of bottomup AI tooling
- Drive adoption and continuous improvement through close collaboration iteration and a focus on real usage
- Partner with the productfacing AI team to share internal learnings and contribute to our broader AI platform and strategy
Who You Are
You are a highly capable engineer with a strong track record of delivering AIpowered systems and internal tooling. You bring a deep understanding of product workflows exceptional technical instincts and a forwardthinking mindset.
Experience & Skills
- 5 years of software engineering experience 2 years LLM/Applied AI
- Skilled in building and scaling internal platforms developer tools or productivity systems
- Deep familiarity with modern AI ecosystems
- Strong product sense and systems thinkingyou know when to prototype and when to invest in durable infrastructure
- Excellent communicator and collaborator able to drive alignment across engineering design and product
How You Think & Work
- Tooling is leverage: You believe great tools reshape how teams think plan and execute
- Context is key: You understand that AI is most powerful when grounded in a teams real data workflows and decisions
- Vision leads utility: While you listen closely to users you also anticipate their needs and lead with creative forwardlooking solutions
- Build to learn: You favor fast iteration usagebased validation and continuous improvement
What Sets You Apart
- Root Cause Problem Solving & Data Insight: You prioritize the highestimpact problems and use data to inform decisions
- System Integration & Data Stitching: You connect disparate systems into cohesive contextual AIpowered workflows
- Prompt & LLM System Design: You design robust AI workflows with prompt engineering context handling and orchestration
- Build vs. Buy Judgment: You know when to adopt existing solutions and when to build from scratch
- Driving Adoption & Evangelism: You get tools into users hands onboard them effectively and evolve based on feedback
- Internal Tools Product Thinking: You blend technical execution with product intuition to build tools that teams actually love to use
Who We Are
The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble lifelong learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset ownership and humility are core to the way we work: were tenacious in the face of challenges we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success and we operate from a place of empathy and openness seeking to understand many points of view.
The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platformwe help companies capture data they can trust uncover clear insights about customer behavior and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. Were super proud of what weve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.
We care about the wellbeing of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and wellbeing of our Ampliteers.
Some of our benefit programs include:
- Excellent Medical Dental and Vision insurance coverages with 100% employerpaid premiums for employee Medical Dental Vision on select plans
- Flexible time off paid holidays and more
- Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you whether thats wellness (monthly) commuter transit/parking (monthly) learning and development (quarterly) home office equipment (annual) and much more
- Excellent Parental benefits including: 1220 weeks of Paid Parental Leave Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support Backup Child Care support
- Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only)
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
Other fun facts about Amplitude:
- We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.
- Our customers love us! Theyve said were the #1 product analytics solution for 19 quarters in a row on G2.
- We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.
- We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs management training and wellness initiatives.
- We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
- We were founded in 2012 went public via a direct listing in September 2021 and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.
- Were a global and fastgrowing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ) New York Vancouver Amsterdam London Paris Singapore and Tokyo.
- Our mascot is Data Monster who loves to chow down on numbers charts and graphs. Nom nom.
Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race color religion national origin age sex marital status ancestry physical or mental disability veteran status or sexual orientation.
This role is eligible for equity benefits and other forms of compensation.
Based on Colorado law the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range: $219000 $330000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in New York City the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in New York City. New York City salary range: $244000 $368000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in California the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $244000 $368000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in California the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. California salary range: $219000 $330000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in Washington state the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state. Washington salary range: $219000 $330000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in Washington state the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only: unlimited PTO 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary) medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans. Finally a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.
#LISA1
By applying for this job you acknowledge that Amplitude processes your personal data in accordance with the Amplitude Applicant Privacy Notice.
Staying Safe Protect Yourself From Recruitment Fraud
We are aware of individuals and entities fraudulently representing themselves as Amplitude recruiters and/or hiring managers. Amplitude will never ask for financial information or payment or for personal information such as bank account number or social security number during the job application or interview process. Any emails from the Amplitude recruiting team will come from an @email address. You can learn more about how to protect yourself from these types of fraud by referring tothis article. Please exercise caution and cease communications if something feels suspicious about your interactions.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
