# Staff Engineer (AI Native Services) at Workstream

- Company: Workstream
- What the company does: Simplify operations and elevate worker experience. Access data, track milestones, automate hiring, and ensure compliance. See why top companies trust us. Backed by CRV.
- Company website: https://www.workstream.us/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Georgia, Texas, Virginia, Washington
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply by: 2026-11-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/workstream/jobs/6208106004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/workstream-staff-engineer-ai-native-services/

## About the role

This is a founding engineer opportunity. As the first engineer on Workstream's AI-Native Services (AINS) team, you'll spearhead a new company initiative from zero to one. You'll shape its architecture, set its engineering bar, and help build the team that follows. This is a Staff level role with a direct line to leadership and real influence over how AINS grows. You will not own pricing, deal acceptance, or the margin model—those sit with the Head of Delivery and the Head of GTM.

## What they're looking for

- You have personally built and operated at least one AI agent or agentic workflow in production. You can clearly explain how it worked, where it failed, how you evaluated it, and what you kept deterministic or human-led
- Strong engineering judgment across models, orchestration, APIs, data and integrations, permissions, observability, and evaluations
- You have worked directly with customers or end users—discovery, implementation, or incident resolution—and communicate clearly with non-technical people
- You can break a messy workflow into deterministic steps, agentic decisions, human judgment, and exception paths—and define how each part will be tested
- You care about keeping plausible but wrong AI output away from customers: grounded context, constrained actions, verification, evals, review, monitoring
- You thrive in zero-to-one ambiguity: shipping weekly, owning outcomes, and doing whatever the service needs—including unglamorous review tooling and data plumbing

Tags: AI- Native Services

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/workstream-staff-engineer-ai-native-services/