# Senior Staff Engineer

**Company**: PayPal
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $196,500.00 - $291,500.00 Annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join AI Growth & Innovation at PayPal, where you'll take emerging AI from zero to N, building and enhancing agentic systems, real-time voice, and multimodal experiences directly in production with real customers.

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you'll turn ambiguous problems and emerging tech into a point of view, then prototype fast to prove or disprove hypotheses and scale what works into reliable, secure products.

**Responsibilities:**

- Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries

- Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees

- Actions determine the utilization of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company

- Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritize among more issues than can be handled individually

- Understands evolving industry capabilities & practices and can judiciously apply up--to-date information for optimal results

- Competent at communicating technical issues with non-technical audiences

- Spreads their behavior, principles, and knowledge as a means of improving technical results of other employees

- Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems & goals

**Requirements:**

- 8+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience

- Senior or staff-level engineering experience, with impact beyond your own code

- A track record of shipping to real users and scaling early ideas into reliable, secure, cost-efficient products

- Hands-on experience building with LLMs or agentic systems

- A bias toward fast, scrappy prototyping

- Comfort with ambiguity and strong research instincts

- Drive and ownership: you take on stretch problems, go beyond your scope, and follow through until it ships

- Strong engineering fundamentals in at least one modern language

- Clear communication with engineers and executives

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive, choice-based programs to support all aspects of personal wellbeing

- Generous paid time off

- Healthcare coverage for you and your family

- Resources to create financial security and support your mental health

**Salary:**

- San Jose, California: ($196,500.00 - $291,500.00 Annually)

## Skills

### Required
- LLMs
- agentic systems
- prototyping
- technical communication
- engineering fundamentals

### Nice to have
- real-time voice
- multimodal experience
- automated evaluation
- observability
- model fine-tuning

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