Klaviyo

Sr. Staff Engineer, Applied AI (Customer Agent)

Klaviyo · Boston, MA

Posted about 2 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
70 days
Klaviyo's roles stay open a median of 80 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Klaviyo's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Klaviyo
high
141 stale, 6 reposted of 141 open
Hiring momentum
203 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-22

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Klaviyo's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Klaviyo.

About this role

As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Customer Agent team at Klaviyo, you will lead the technical and product direction for a conversational AI system that enables brands to serve customers at scale. Your role involves hands-on problem-solving, architecture design, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to shape the product roadmap. You will also mentor other engineers and ensure the reliability of the system in a production environment.

Our read on this posting2.8out of 5
benefits
3/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Klaviyo as an employer.

What you need

  • Experience architecting, building, scaling, and supporting a production agentic system end to end
  • Hands-on experience with orchestration, evaluation, guardrails, and non-deterministic failure handling
  • Ability to set technical and product direction for an entire product area
  • Strong communication skills for conveying complex technical trade-offs
  • Experience writing code, reviewing designs, and debugging production issues

Nice to have

  • Experience running a multi-tenant agent platform at production scale
  • Experience building 0-to-1 products or working in startup environments
  • Track record with production evaluation systems, AI observability, or human-in-the-loop workflows for LLM-powered products

What you get

  • Base salary range of $216,000 — $324,000 USD
  • Participation in the company’s annual cash bonus plan
  • Variable compensation for sales and customer success roles
  • Equity and sign-on payments
  • Comprehensive range of health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility
  • Up to 10% travel for onboarding, client work, team meetings, and industry events

Worth weighing

  • In-office role based in Boston, MA
  • No specific salary/OTE range provided during the hiring process, but recruiter can provide details
  • The role may involve dealing with complex, non-deterministic systems which can be challenging

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Listed by Klaviyo on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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