Staff AI Engineer at Zoom
Seattle, WA
$177,100–$387,500from the description
Jul 17, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building agentic AI systems — autonomous, multi-step workflows powered by large language models — for a widely used productivity assistant. Day-to-day work spans designing agent architectures, integrating LLMs with backend infrastructure, and developing memory, personalisation, and evaluation components. Suits engineers with a strong background in both AI/ML and distributed systems at production scale.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
“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 35,400 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 14,900–53,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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 (8)
The role is titled 'Staff AI Engineer' but the requirements (5+ years, production-grade AI/backend systems, no explicit cross-team org-wide technical authority) are consistent with a Senior-level scope. 'Staff' in the title is treated as the advertised level; the actual requirements support Senior.
Location is not specified in the posting; the role is listed under Zoom's hybrid/remote work framework with no city or state called out. The compensation range ($177K–$387.5K) is noted as location-dependent.
The degree requirement ('qualification in Computer Science, AI, ML, or a related field') is listed under the main requirements section but uses the word 'qualification' rather than 'degree', and Zoom's broader language implies equivalent experience is acceptable — treated as not a hard degree gate.
Python is listed as the primary named language; TypeScript, Go, Java, C++, and Rust are explicitly interchangeable alternatives per the JD ('one or more of').
AWS is the primary named cloud platform; GCP and Azure are explicitly listed as alternatives.
'Agentic AI systems' is retained as a skill because it represents a concrete, named engineering discipline (agentic/agent-based system design) central to this role, not a generic concept.
Prompt engineering, agent evaluation, agent frameworks, and Claude Code/Codex all appear under the 'Preferred' section and are marked accordingly.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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