Software Development Engineer
Zoom · Seattle, WA
$184,030–$275,400from the description
Jul 21, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A back-end-focused software engineering role on an AI application team, responsible for building and maintaining web-based and AI-embedded products used in sales, contact centers, and similar fields. Day-to-day work spans the full ML lifecycle — data pipelines, model training and deployment, API/microservice development, automated testing, CI/CD, and technical documentation. Suited to engineers with production ML experience across areas such as computer vision, NLP, or recommendation systems.
Mid level · 3+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 5,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 3,100–7,700
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). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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 (6)
The role title is plain 'Software Engineer' with no level modifier; advertised seniority is Unspecified. The hard requirement is only 3 years of experience, which maps to Mid-level despite the high salary range.
The SOC classification is a genuine toss-up: the responsibilities describe both production software/microservices engineering (15-1252) and ML model lifecycle work including training, evaluation, and deployment (15-2051). 15-1252 was chosen as primary because the JD emphasizes back-end software development, scalable services, and API/SDK integration, with ML as the domain rather than the primary craft.
LLMs and ASR appear only in the 'About the team' narrative section describing the team's product stack, not in the formal requirements block — listed as preferred accordingly.
The posting explicitly permits telecommuting 'in various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S.', making this effectively a remote-US role.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree… or a foreign degree equivalent'; because a foreign equivalent is accepted, this is treated as a hard Bachelor's gate (no 'equivalent experience' substitution is offered).
Compensation includes base salary, bonus, and equity; the stated range covers base only. Zoom notes a location-based compensation structure, so the range may vary by geography.
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