# Senior Software Engineer, Agent at Pave

- Company: Pave
- What the company does: Plan, communicate, and benchmark your compensation in real-time. Backed by Bessemer, Index and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.pave.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA & New York, NY
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $196K to $265K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/paveakatroveinformationtechnologies/jobs/4730123005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/pave-senior-software-engineer-agent/

## About the role

This role will be working on Pave's AI compensation analyst - an agentic system that sits on top of the world's largest proprietary compensation dataset and Pave's existing workflow engine. Think: autonomous agents that can reason over structured compensation data and execute multi-step workflows (market pricing, cycle planning, attrition analysis) across Pave's platform.

## What they're looking for

- 7+ years of experience building production systems, with deep hands-on expertise in LLMs, agentic architectures, retrieval systems, and evaluation frameworks
- Strong product intuition. You identify customer problems that AI can uniquely solve and partner with Product to shape what gets built, not just how
- Proven track record leading 0→1 technical initiatives with high ambiguity, driving them from concept to production
- Pragmatic engineering judgment: you know when to move fast and when to invest in quality
- Ability to drive technical alignment across teams. You'll be defining primitives and patterns that other engineers build on, so you need to bring people along
- Founder mentality with bias toward action, ownership, and urgency, you're energized by the challenge of bringing a new AI product to market

Tags: Engineering