# Sr. Software Engineer II - AI Engineering (Remote Eligible) at Smartsheet

- Company: Smartsheet
- What the company does: Backed by Insight.
- Company website: http://www.smartsheet.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: -REMOTE, USA-
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-18
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/smartsheet/jobs/8167496
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/smartsheet-sr-software-engineer-ii-ai-engineering-remote-eligible/

## About the role

Smartsheet is building the next generation of AI-powered strategic planning and work execution agents through SmartAssist, our intelligent agent platform. You will work closely with Engineering and AI Platform teams, embedded in a team working in a critical area and building toward a mature Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC). You will architect how we design, build, and operationalize AI-driven solutions that transform work execution at enterprise scale.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years working directly with LLMs in production
- Deep, hands-on experience with prompt engineering and context engineering, you understand how model behavior changes with framing, structure, and input design
- Strong working knowledge of RAG architectures: chunking strategies, embedding models, retrieval evaluation, and failure diagnosis
- Experience building or extending LLM evaluation frameworks, you have designed scorers, worked with golden datasets, and thought carefully about what good looks like
- Fluency in agent system design, you don't need to own the architecture, but you can engage as a peer on architectural tradeoffs that affect quality
- Strong Python skills, comfortable working in data-heavy environments (Databricks, Delta tables, or equivalent)

Tags: Engineering - Developers