Job Title: Senior AI Developer
Location: Downtown San Francisco, CA (On-site)
RocketRide.ai is a new Series A startup based in downtown San Francisco, on a mission to make building agentic AI easy, accessible, and approachable for all—powered by open standards and driven by community. We do this by hosting our open‑source solution on an innovative, compute‑optimized cloud built for the AI pipelines that power AI-first applications, with advanced management, observability, and enterprise‑grade capabilities out of the box. We’re small, sharp, and intensely product‑driven: the people who build the platform are the ones talking to users, shaping the roadmap, and seeing the impact of their work in real time.
About the Role
We are searching for a hands‑on Senior AI Developer to design and deliver breakthrough capabilities for our SaaS platform and provide technical leadership for our San Francisco engineering team. You’ll work across LLMs, agent frameworks, and modern data stacks to turn ambitious ideas into production systems that our open‑source community and paying customers rely on every day. This is a role for someone who wants to be at the center of the agentic‑AI wave: heavy open‑source contribution, deep collaboration with founders, and a clear line from the code you write to the product developers love.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and optimize features for our AI pipeline builder and compute‑optimized SaaS platform, from prototype experiments to hardened production services.
- Deliver rapidly with high quality, leaning on the latest AI code‑generation and debugging tools to move 10x faster without sacrificing reliability.
- Recruit, lead, and mentor a small, high‑performing development team that ships often, measures impact and iterates quickly.
- Contribute meaningfully to our open‑source projects and help grow our developer community through Discord, live events, demos, and technical content.
- Stay on the cutting edge of generative AI (LLMs, agents, tools, retrieval, evaluation) and turn new capabilities into concrete product features and customer use cases.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, finance, DevRel, and founders to ensure our systems support how real developers adopt and scale agentic AI in production.
What You Bring
- 6+ years of experience developing distributed backend systems and services at scale.
- Deep familiarity with agent frameworks, LLMs, AI tooling, vector/graph databases, and ETL pipelines in support of AI applications and business workflows.
- Demonstrated leverage of AI tooling and AI-assisted coding to achieve step‑change productivity in development and operations.
- Strong, demonstrable coding skills in Python and C++, with clean abstractions and a bias toward maintainable, testable systems.
- Experience building and leading collaborative, high-energy teams that deliver often and learn fast.
- Prior experience contributing to open‑source projects and engaging with developer communities.