StaffSoftwareEngineer(AI)

At The Stepstone Group, we have a simple yet very important mission: The right job for everyone. Using our data, platform, and technology, we create opportunities for jobseekers and companies around the world to find a perfect match in fair and equitable way. With over 20 brands across 30+ countries, we strive for fair and unbiased hiring. Join our team of 3,000+ employees and be part of reshaping the labour market and becoming the world’s leading job platform. We are recruiting for a Staff Software Engineer (AI) to help design, build and evolve production-grade agentic AI systems. This is a strategic, hands-on engineering leadership role focused on integrating Large Language Models into scalable, secure, reliable and observable architectures. This is an individual contributor leadership role with no direct line management responsibility. You will help move our agentic AI capabilities beyond experimentation and into dependable products that operate safely and effectively at scale across our global marketplace. Working closely with software engineers, machine learning engineers, data scientists, product managers, analysts and technical leaders, you will shape how we build, test, deploy, monitor and govern AI-powered systems. Success in this role will depend as much on influence and communication as on technical depth. You will need to create alignment across teams, explain complex concepts clearly, and help others make confident, pragmatic decisions. Your responsibilities * Design, architect and deliver agentic, LLM-powered systems in AWS, ensuring production readiness, scalability, reliability and security. * Provide technical leadership to evolve AI solutions from experimentation into robust, observable and maintainable products. * Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, ML and data teams to align technical decisions with user needs, business priorities and long-term platform strategy. * Define and drive engineering standards, reusable patterns, t