Senior AI Builder at Replit
Foster City, CA
$200,000–$275,000
Jul 16, 2026
Foster City, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full-stack, AI-focused engineering role on an internal platform team that builds custom software to support departments such as HR, finance, sales, and customer support. The work spans front-end and back-end development, LLM pipeline architecture, third-party integrations, and production operations. It suits someone with startup or founder experience who can independently scope ambiguous business problems and ship working software against them.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 10,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 6,200–15,400
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The job title 'Member of Technical Staff (AI Builder)' carries no explicit seniority level word, so the title states no level. However, the scope — end-to-end platform ownership, executive-level stakeholder engagement, and autonomous operation in ambiguous environments — supports a Senior classification.
Degree requirement: the JD lists a Bachelor's or Master's as a qualification but explicitly states 'Exceptional non-traditional backgrounds with a strong shipped portfolio will be considered,' making equivalent experience an accepted substitute. Degree requirement is therefore treated as None.
No compensation figures are stated in the posting.
The caller has overridden the posting's stated Foster City/San Francisco hybrid location and declared this fully remote; metro and state fields are left blank accordingly.
REST APIs and CI/CD are inferred as hard gates from the 'Working proficiency in modern software engineering practices, including version control, code review, deployment pipelines' and 'third-party integrations' requirements language, which firmly gates on these capabilities even without naming a specific tool.
React Native and Expo appear only under 'Preferred Qualifications' and are marked as preferred.
Replit platform experience appears only under 'Preferred Qualifications' and is marked as preferred.
The JD references integrations with enterprise HR platforms, CRM platforms, ATS, support ticketing, and identity providers as responsibilities, but names no specific third-party products — no skills were emitted for these generic categories.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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