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)