# Sr. Staff Engineer at Betterment

- Company: Betterment
- What the company does: Betterment can help grow your money by making saving and investing easy. Invest in a tailored portfolio, set buckets for your goals, and earn rewards. Backed by Bessemer and Menlo.
- Company website: https://www.betterment.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Betterment HQ - New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $230K to $270K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.betterment.com/careers/current-openings/job?gh_jid=7821707&gh_jid=7821707
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/betterment-sr-staff-engineer/

## About the role

The AI Platform team enables product teams across Betterment to build useful AI-powered features quickly, enjoyably, and responsibly. As Sr Staff Engineer, you will work with a team of senior/staff engineers delivering an expanding set of AI capabilities as well as shared infrastructure, LLM evaluation frameworks, and internal libraries.

## What they're looking for

- A strong technical lead capable of establishing the strategic vision for Betterment’s AI systems while also working hands-on alongside senior and staff IC colleagues to build it into reality
- Deep expertise in LLM systems, including prompt engineering, agentic workflows, and evaluation systems
- Experience operating AI features in production, ensuring quality and auditability via online and offline validation, automated monitoring, and human-in--the-loop oversight
- Comfort operating at the frontier. The ability and drive to stay current with emerging tools, techniques, and best practices within the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem
- Clear judgment about when to use AI and when not to, maintaining a grounded, pragmatic perspective on what we should ship to production today
- Proven track record leading successful projects that affect and development workflows used by multiple teams

Tags: Engineering