Staff AI Engineer, Amplitude
AI Tools
$212-319k
+ Equity
Product analytics company
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Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$212-319k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, 2+ years LLM/Applied AI
- Skilled in building and scaling internal platforms, developer tools, or productivity systems
- Deep familiarity with modern AI ecosystems
- Strong product sense and systems thinking—you know when to prototype and when to invest in durable infrastructure
- Excellent communicator and collaborator, able to drive alignment across engineering, design, and product
- Tooling is leverage: You believe great tools reshape how teams think, plan, and execute
- Context is key: You understand that AI is most powerful when grounded in a team’s real data, workflows, and decisions
- Vision leads utility: While you listen closely to users, you also anticipate their needs and lead with creative, forward-looking solutions
- Build to learn: You favor fast iteration, usage-based validation, and continuous improvement
- Root Cause Problem Solving & Data Insight: You prioritize the highest-impact problems and use data to inform decisions
- System Integration & Data Stitching: You connect disparate systems into cohesive, contextual AI-powered workflows
- Prompt & LLM System Design: You design robust AI workflows with prompt engineering, context handling, and orchestration
- Build vs. Buy Judgment: You know when to adopt existing solutions and when to build from scratch
- Driving Adoption & Evangelism: You get tools into users’ hands, onboard them effectively, and evolve based on feedback
- Internal Tools Product Thinking: You blend technical execution with product intuition to build tools that teams actually love to use
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff AI Engineer to lead the development of internal AI tools that transform how product development happens at Amplitude. This role exists to embed AI directly into those workflows: automating the repetitive, amplifying human judgment, and helping Amplitude operate as an AI-native company
- You’ll be both a visionary and a builder—identifying what’s possible before it's asked for, while also delivering practical, high-leverage tools. You’ll improve foundational workflows across teams while contributing to the long-term strategy and infrastructure behind Amplitude’s AI systems
- Ship impactful AI tooling that streamlines and improves product development workflows—helping engineers, designers, and PMs move faster and smarter
- Identify high-leverage opportunities by deeply understanding internal pain points and designing solutions that embed AI seamlessly into day-to-day work
- Build foundational infrastructure for internal AI tools—scalable, privacy-aware systems integrated with platforms like Salesforce, Jira, Zoom, Productboard, and Slack
- Establish reusable patterns and components to enable other teams to extend and build on top of your work, fostering a culture of bottom-up AI tooling
- Drive adoption and continuous improvement through close collaboration, iteration, and a focus on real usage
- Partner with the product-facing AI team to share internal learnings and contribute to our broader AI platform and strategy
- You are a highly capable engineer with a strong track record of delivering AI-powered systems and internal tooling. You bring a deep understanding of product workflows, exceptional technical instincts, and a forward-thinking mindset
Our take
Amplitude provides product analytics to help companies understand user behaviour. Product, marketing, and growth teams use Amplitude to discover and share insights about user engagement, retention, and revenue.
Amplitude’s user flows reveal which actions are the most commonly taken after users sign up, and which usually precede purchases made in-app, creating paths through the app. The behaviour of individual app users can be viewed with unlimited real-time activity feeds and user timelines.
Thousands of companies use Amplitude analytics including Microsoft, Under Armour, Intuit, Twitter, Bonobos, Peloton, and many more. In 2024, a securities fraud case was filed against Amplitude due to an IPO and stock share rise that was alleged to be artificially inflated before their downturn in 2022. Whilst this case is ongoing, Amplitude is still releasing new products and operating at full capacity.
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Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2021
$150m
LATE VC
May 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $336m
Company benefits
- We offer a generous 12-week parental leave for fathers/partners and 18-20 weeks for new birthing parents. This leave policy also provides flexible scheduling so you can spend time with your family and bond with your little one. Specific leave policy will vary by country
- We believe it’s important to unplug from work to reset and recharge. We offer flexible vacation time and unlimited PTO — and we encourage you to use it!
- We provide a monthly stipend for the wellness activity of your choosing, from gym memberships and fitness classes to acupuncture and massages
- Equity is an important component of compensation, but it should benefit you (not just the company). In addition to offering competitive RSU grants that vest quarterly over three years, our Employee Stock Purchase Plan gives employees the option to buy below market price
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Spenser Skates
(CEO)Previously worked as an Algorithmic Trader, Researcher at DRW Trading Group. They co-found Sonalight but are no longer working at the company.
Curtis Liu
(CTO)Previously worked as a Teaching Assistant at MIT and as a Software Engineer at Google. They co-found Sonalight but are no longer working at the company.
Jeffrey Wang
(Chief Architect)They studied computer science at university. They have extensive experience in software engineering prior to co-founding Amplitude.
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