Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Platforms - San Diego, CA, United States
$208,852 - $271,522 USD yearly
Originally posted 3 August 2026 by the employer.
pSemi drives semiconductor integration for 5G and beyond.
About the role
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer focused on AI platforms, you will provide end-to-end technical leadership for the software systems that enable AI-assisted RFIC product development workflows.
What you'll do
- Own the architecture and evolution of distributed software platforms that support AI-enabled engineering workflows, defining service boundaries, APIs, data flows, and execution models.
- Design and productionize systems incorporating generative AI, LLM services, intelligent agents, retrieval, and tool-driven automation.
- Architect, implement, and maintain end-to-end software products spanning modern web applications, backend services, APIs, and engineering integrations.
- Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and production environments across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or hybrid environments.
- Lead the development of secure, resilient, and production-ready systems with strong observability, fault tolerance, and operational support.
- Collaborate across software, infrastructure, AI, and RFIC engineering teams to automate workflows involving design, simulation, testbench configuration, and data collection.
What you'll need
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including technical leadership of complex, production-scale systems.
- Deep proficiency in one or more modern programming languages, such as Python, Java, C++, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
- Expertise in designing, building, deploying, and operating distributed software platforms across multiple layers of the application stack.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, API design, data modeling, asynchronous processing, messaging, system integration, fault tolerance, security, reliability, and production operations.
- Experience deploying and operating production workloads in at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).
- Experience with containerized applications, Kubernetes or comparable orchestration platforms, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
Skills: AI platforms, distributed software platforms, generative AI, LLM services, cloud or hybrid infrastructure
This role has been open 76 days — well above the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
962
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | pSemi | All employers we track in this specialty (962 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 962 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 4 | 6118 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 76 d | 51 d (+25 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: AI platforms, distributed software platforms, generative AI, LLM services, cloud or hybrid infrastructure
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 274 open roles · median 47 d
- Qualcomm · 62 open roles · median 53 d
- AMD · 54 open roles · median 19 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 93 d
- Intel Corporation · 43 open roles · median 12 d
- Cerebras · 36 open roles · median 83 d
How we counted: 962 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.