Retool · 1 month ago
Software Engineer, AI Product Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$165K/yr - $255K/yr
3+ years expRetool is a company dedicated to improving internal tooling for businesses by leveraging AI technology. They are seeking AI Product Engineers to develop innovative developer-facing AI features that enhance the software building experience, focusing on generative UIs and improving internal model architecture.
Enterprise SoftwareProductivity ToolsSoftwareSoftware Engineering
Responsibilities
Build generative UIs that let users create real apps from natural language
Improve the performance, observability, and safety of our internal model architecture
Extend our AI evaluation systems to support smarter ranking, feedback loops, and product metrics
Develop patterns for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), few-shot prompting, and agentic architecture
Contribute to building internal tools that help us accelerate iteration on AI features and workflows
Qualification
Required
3+ years of professional software engineering experience
A track record of building and shipping real product—not just models or papers
Experience working with LLMs and modern techniques (RAG, CoT, few-shot, embeddings, etc.)
An eye for product: you care how features work and how they feel
Familiarity with vector databases, prompt orchestration tools, and evaluation techniques
A pragmatic mindset about what's scalable and maintainable in production
Strong opinions, weakly held—you move quickly but bring others along
Preferred
Experience building AI features for developer tools or productivity software
Experience in JavaScript / TypeScript
Experience with PostgreSQL
Exposure to MLOps techniques (e.g., fine-tuning pipelines, model hosting)
Experience mentoring other engineers or working closely with design
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
401(k)
Hybrid work location
Company
Retool
Retool is a software development company that offers solutions in AI apps, documentation, developer tools, and external apps.
201-500 employees
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2023 (5)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$141MKey Investors
Sequoia Capital
2022-07-27Series C· $45M
2021-12-22Series C· $20M
2020-10-20Series B· $50M
Leadership Team
David Hsu
Founder, CEO
Recent News
2026-01-21
SV Angel
2025-12-01
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