Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI
Bot Auto · Houston, Texas (preferred), or the San Francisco Bay Area
Posted about a month ago · $160,000–$220,000
or apply directly on Bot Auto's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 33 days Bot Auto's roles stay open a median of 80 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 10% of Bot Auto's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Bot Auto
- high 17 stale, 2 reposted of 20 open
- Hiring momentum
- 28 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 Bot Auto's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Bot Auto.
About this role
The Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI at Bot Auto will architect, build, and operate production-grade AI systems and workflows. This role involves end-to-end ownership of software products, including backend services, full-stack applications, and integrations with enterprise tools. The engineer will also design data architectures, establish engineering patterns, and collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure robust production operations.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
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 Bot Auto as an employer.
What you need
- 6+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience
- Demonstrated hands-on experience architecting, building, shipping, and operating production-grade AI agentic applications
- Strong backend and full-stack engineering capability
- Strong programming skills in Python and at least one modern application language such as TypeScript/JavaScript or Go
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, databases, data modeling, transactions/consistency, event-driven architectures
- Strong working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, containers, CI/CD, observability, security, and production operations
Nice to have
- Experience with MCP, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or equivalent agent/tool orchestration frameworks
- Experience with Temporal or another durable workflow engine
- Experience designing RAG, hybrid retrieval, vector search, graph/knowledge systems
- Experience with eval-driven development
- Experience leading technical initiatives across teams
Worth weighing
- No specific benefits listed
- Salary range provided only for California candidates, which may not apply to all locations
- Role requires a deep understanding of complex AI systems and production issues, which may be challenging for some candidates
Summarised from Bot Auto's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Bot Auto on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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