Factory
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Software Engineer, AI

Location
San Francisco, CA · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Mid-level
Experience
2+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
23 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • LLM
  • AI/ML engineering
  • agentic systems
  • large-scale data processing

Also useful

  • data-intensive applications
  • software development lifecycle

About the Role

Factory is looking for innovative AI Engineers to build and evolve cutting-edge AI systems that transform how software organizations accelerate their productivity and innovation.

What You Will Do and Achieve

  • Innovate at the forefront of AI by designing, developing, and deploying AI-driven agentic systems that enhance Factory's core AI capabilities
  • Work with product and engineering teams to integrate emerging AI research findings into practical, customer-centric solutions
  • Engage in iterative development processes, rapidly prototyping and refining AI functionalities based on real-world feedback to meet the evolving needs of developers and enterprises
  • Take the initiative in identifying and addressing product stability and scalability challenges, ensuring the Factory Platform reliably supports large-scale operational demands
  • Lead the exploration and integration of large-scale data processing techniques to improve the reliability and effectiveness of our AI systems

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering roles post-acquisition of a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI, or a related technical field.
  • Demonstrated proficiency with LLMs and a track record of applying AI/ML techniques to solve complex, unstructured problems, ideally within the domain of software engineering or related areas.
  • Self-motivated and autonomous, with a proven ability to navigate ambiguous research projects from conception to impactful deployment.
  • Strong communication skills that enable you to articulate technical concepts and strategies clearly at all levels, coupled with a strategic mindset oriented towards innovation.
  • Experience with data-intensive applications and familiarity with the software development lifecycle are highly desirable, though not mandatory.

This is an in-office position (5 days/week) in San Francisco (walking distance to Caltrain)

About Factory

Our mission is to create a world where software builds and improves itself.

We build the platform for self-improving software development, helping the world's largest enterprise engineering teams turn their organizations into autonomous software factories. Customers including Nvidia, Blackstone, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Palo Alto Networks, Adobe, and T-Mobile run Factory to ship code, review PRs, run tests, and deploy continuously - getting smarter with every cycle.

In 2026, we raised $200M at a $5B valuation, bringing our total funding to over $400M. We are backed by world-class investors and operators including Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, Blackstone, Ali Ghodsi (CEO of Databricks), and Frank Slootman (Former CEO of Snowflake).

Read the original posting

From Factory's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 17, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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