Staff Gen AI Developer

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="p-rich_text_section">At Varicent, we’re not just transforming the Sales Performance Management (SPM) market—we’re redefining how organizations achieve revenue success. Our cutting-edge SaaS solutions empower revenue leaders globally to design smarter go-to-market strategies, maximize seller performance, and unlock untapped potential. Varicent stands at the forefront of innovation, celebrated as a market leader in the&nbsp;<em data-stringify-type="italic">2025 Forrester Wave Report for SPM</em>,&nbsp;<em data-stringify-type="italic">2023 Ventana Research Revenue Performance Management (RPM) Value Index</em>,&nbsp;<em data-stringify-type="italic">Gartner Peer Insights</em>,&nbsp;<em data-stringify-type="italic">2024 Gartner SPM Market Guide</em>, and&nbsp;<em data-stringify-type="italic">G2.&nbsp;</em>Our solutions are trusted by a diverse range of global industry leaders like T-Mobile, ServiceNow, Wawanesa Bank, Shaw Industries, Moody's, Stryker and hundreds more. Here’s why you’ll thrive at Varicent:</div> <ul class="p-rich_text_list p-rich_text_list__bullet p-rich_text_list--nested" data-stringify-type="unordered-list" data-list-tree="true" data-indent="0" data-border="0"> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Innovate with Purpose: Build impactful solutions for customers worldwide.</strong></li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Join Excellence: Work in a diverse, collaborative, and innovative team.</strong></li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Shape the Future: Lead in redefining revenue optimization.</strong></li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Grow Together: Unlock your potential in a supportive environment.</strong></li> </ul> <div class="p-rich_text_section">Join us at Varicent—where your talent and ambition meet limitless opportunities for success!</div></div><p>We’re building production GenAI features and looking for a Staff Software Engineer with strong engineering skills and a passion for building scalable AI systems. You’ll contribute to the design and delivery of GenAI features, collaborate closely with technical leads and senior stakeholders, and play a key role in maintaining technical quality and scalability across a feature area.</p> <p>Own AI-enabled components end-to-end and deliver measurable improvements in quality and reliability. You operate independently, drive design decisions within your area, and help set strong engineering standards through reviews and mentorship.</p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">🔧&nbsp;</span>What you’ll do</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own delivery for significant features or systems: clarify requirements, design the solution, execute, ship, and iterate.</li> <li>Build and maintain reliable services and workflows that support AI features in production.</li> <li>Define how quality is measured for your area (success metrics, test strategy, evaluation approach) and automate it wherever possible.</li> <li>Run structured experiments, interpret results, and translate learnings into product improvements.</li> <li>Improve operational readiness: deployment automation, monitoring/alerting, incident follow-up, and performance/cost optimizations.</li> <li>Mentor teammates through design feedback, code reviews, and practical guidance.</li> </ul> <p><strong>🎯GenAI expectations</strong></p> <ul> <li>Solid working knowledge of how modern AI applications are built and evaluated (you may not be a specialist, but you understand the core concepts and trade-offs).</li> <li>Strong learning speed: can evaluate new models/tools, assess feasibility, and recommend a path forward based on evidence and ROI.</li> <li>Builds solutions that are safe and compliant by design (privacy, data handling, safeguards), partnering with Legal/Security as needed</li> </ul> <p><strong><span data-contrast="none">✅ </span>Required skills &amp; knowledge</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>6+ years in software engineering</strong>.</li> <li>3+ years building and shipping production software in product teams.</li> <li>Bachelor’s in computer science, Engineering, or related field.</li> <li><strong>Strong software engineering fundamentals</strong> and system design.</li> <li>Hands-on coding in <strong>Python and/or TypeScript </strong>(or similar), APIs/services, data pipelines.</li> <li>Cloud experience, CI/CD, automated testing, observability; engineers own quality without dedicated QA.</li> <li>Experimentation mindset: define metrics, build evals, iterate quickly; willingness to learn GenAI rapidly.</li> </ul> <p><strong>🧩 Nice to Have</strong></p> <ul> <li>GenAI/LLM: prompt engineering, retrieval/RAG, function/tool-calling, evaluation pipelines, fine-tuning/LoRA, embeddings/vector search.</li> <li>LLMOps: experiment tracking, prompt/version control, cost/latency optimization.</li> <li>Tools: serverless AWS, LangChain/LangGraph, OpenAI/Anthropic/Azure OpenAI; vector DBs (Pinecone/FAISS/Milvus).</li> <li>External contributions (open source, blogs, talks).</li> </ul> <p><strong>🔨 How we work</strong></p> <ul> <li>We balance exploration with delivery: test ideas quickly, then productionize what works.</li> <li>“Done” means quality goals are met; then we keep improving accuracy, cost, and performance.</li> <li>The team owns systems end-to-end (build, release, reliability).</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">For this role, the estimated annual base salary range is between $990,600.00 - $1,300,000.00 (MXN). In addition to base salary, our compensation package may include bonuses, commissions for eligible sales roles, and a comprehensive benefits package. The actual base salary will vary based on factors including individual qualifications and market data, as objectively assessed during the intervie