StaffAIEngineer

Strider Technologies delivers strategic intelligence that helps organizations make faster, more confident decisions in an increasingly complex global environment. Using cutting-edge AI and proprietary methodologies, we transform open-source data into actionable insights that help protect technology, talent, and supply chains from nation-state risks. We are looking for an exceptionally motivated Staff AI Engineer to join Strider’s Context Engineering team. Context Engineering exists to help shape, stage, and prioritize data for consumption by our analysts, customers, and agentic analytical production processes. We are looking for candidates who are comfortable working across our full data processing pipeline and are motivated by solving problems and having mission impact. We want individuals who are excited to use AI to amplify their leverage and are enthusiastic about the evolving practice of software and agentic engineering. You will: - Build and own services and features to support our Context Engineering organization, focusing on hybrid data search capabilities (using ElasticSearch and S3Vectors) at million to billion document scale. - Optimize a variety of LLM-based data processing tasks: for example, entity disambiguation, document quality and relevance scoring, text extraction tasks. - Design technical solutions and provide feedback on design documents and architectural decisions across the organization. - Participate in code reviews and help improve practices for AI-assisted code review. What you need to be successful: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field - 10+ years of experience - Track record of setting technical direction and executing beyond the small team level. - Demonstrated examples of making architectural/technical bets that paid off, or course-corrected when they didn’t. - Experience shipping features and solutions that use LLMs in data heavy environments. Experience with frontier model SDKs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc