Software Engineer / Applied AI Engineer
Overview
Are you a builder who wants to use Agentic AI to solve enterprise IT’s hardest problems? DevAI, a seed-stage startup founded by industry veterans (Cisco SVP/CTO, Google VP), is looking for engineers who love hands-on coding and want to scale a product that’s already running in production at the world's largest enterprises.
Large enterprises run their IT operations across dozens of siloed tools — and those tools constantly drift out of sync. A server appears active in one system but decommissioned in another. An asset is tracked in one database but missing from the central record of truth. IT teams spend the majority of their time manually chasing down these inconsistencies across five to seven fragmented tools per task, against source-of-truth data that is only 60–80% accurate. Zombie servers — kept alive only because of data drift — are a direct and costly result.
Neo, DevAI’s AI agent, is already solving this. Neo continuously reconciles data across the fragmented tools in an enterprise’s IT environment, giving I&O teams, network engineers, security operations, and ITSM owners a live, trustworthy picture of their infrastructure. We’ve won Best in Show at ONUG and are deploying in production at Fortune 50 customers today. You’ll join a team of engineers who built this — and own what comes next.
Large enterprises run their IT operations across dozens of siloed tools — and those tools constantly drift out of sync. A server appears active in one system but decommissioned in another. An asset is tracked in one database but missing from the central record of truth. IT teams spend the majority of their time manually chasing down these inconsistencies across five to seven fragmented tools per task, against source-of-truth data that is only 60–80% accurate. Zombie servers — kept alive only because of data drift — are a direct and costly result.
Neo, DevAI’s AI agent, is already solving this. Neo continuously reconciles data across the fragmented tools in an enterprise’s IT environment, giving I&O teams, network engineers, security operations, and ITSM owners a live, trustworthy picture of their infrastructure. We’ve won Best in Show at ONUG and are deploying in production at Fortune 50 customers today. You’ll join a team of engineers who built this — and own what comes next.
About DevAI
DevAI was founded with a singular mission: to eliminate the complexity and inefficiencies of enterprise IT through Agentic AI. Our IT Intelligence Engine continuously reconciles conflicting data from disparate tools into a trustworthy state — both autonomously and with humans in the loop. It powers Neo, our AI agent, which gives IT professionals a deterministic, agentic interface to manage their infrastructure for mission-critical tasks. We are currently deployed in production and iterating rapidly through deep customer discovery.
What this role will include
This is a senior engineering role at a 10-person startup where your work ships directly to enterprise customers. You’ll work side-by-side with our founding team and our experienced software engineers in a high-velocity environment, owning meaningful parts of the product from week one. You’ll have direct access to founders and customers — and direct influence over where the product goes next.
We are hiring for two roles. Both working closely with the founders and founding team.
We are hiring for two roles. Both working closely with the founders and founding team.
- Software EngineerYou’ll extend and scale the backend systems that power Neo — ingestion pipelines, API design, data modeling, and the infrastructure that keeps a production system running reliably for enterprise customers. You’ll work closely with our AI engineer and engage directly with customers when it matters.
- Applied AI EngineerYou’ll advance Neo’s intelligence layer — the agents, reconciliation logic, and context management that make AI genuinely useful against messy, real-world enterprise data. You’ll extend how we ingest and process data from diverse sources, tune our LLM-powered pipelines, and push the boundaries of what agentic systems can do in production.
What you’ll work on
- Scale the reconciliation engine. Extend our high-performance Python codebase to ingest, normalize, and reconcile data from an expanding set of enterprise APIs and configuration sources.
- Advance Neo’s agentic logic. Build on the reasoning layers that allow Neo to resolve data conflicts, surface actionable intelligence, and operate autonomously or with humans in the loop.
- Architecture and reliability. Contribute to a production codebase serving enterprise customers — security, scalability, and performance are real constraints, not aspirational ones.
- Customer-facing features. Build features that surface insights directly to enterprise users. You’ll see how your work lands with real customers and iterate fast.
- Founding team collaboration. Participate in daily scrums, technical design reviews, and customer discovery alongside the founding team.
What we’re looking for
- A deep love for coding. You’re a builder who takes pride in the craft — clean, elegant, reusable, performant code. You solve tough problems and care how the solution is made, not just that it works.
- Python mastery. Strong proficiency in Python is required. Experience with asynchronous programming and API design is a major plus.
- LLM and ML knowledge. Familiarity with Large Language Models, LLM-powered systems, and model APIs is expected. Understanding of ML workflows and common libraries is a plus.
- Full-stack curiosity. Familiarity with modern web stacks, distributed systems, and a systems mindset. You think in architectures, not just features.
- Startup DNA. You’re a self-starter who values authenticity, trust, and customer-first engineering. You move fast, communicate directly, and don’t need hand-holding.
- Mission driven. You want to apply rigorous engineering to a real, hard problem — and you’ll see your work running in production at the world's largest enterprises.
Preferred background
- 3–5+ years of professional software or AI engineering experience
- Experience in a startup environment
- Experience with enterprise software, APIs, or data-intensive systems
- Bay Area-based or willing to work hybrid from our Palo Alto office
- BS in CS, engineering, math, or equivalent experience
What we offer
- Real ownership — you’ll develop a shipped product, not build from scratch in a vacuum
- Direct access to founders and customers from day one
- Competitive comp + equity at an early stage
- Hybrid setup — Palo Alto home base, flexible on the rest
- A genuinely hard problem, already proven in production
How to Apply
Submit your resume and a brief cover letter at dev-ai.com. Include a note on the most interesting technical project you’ve built — bonus if it involves agentic AI. A coding assessment will be part of the process. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.