Staff Software Engineer, AI & Strategy

Benefits

Parental leave

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Learning budget

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Verification

Not verified checked Jun 7, 2026

Salary

$193K-$309K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

115% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Staff Plus From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Work mode

Remote From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

In-office days

0 days From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

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Weekend work

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Company

Company stage

Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

Application

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Deadline

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About this role

Staff Software Engineer, AI & Strategy Remote, US Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy. Toast is looking for a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to join the AI & Strategy Engineering team. In this role, you will be a primary builder of 0-to-1 tools designed to revolutionize how our sales teams operate. This isn't about maintaining legacy systems; it's about writing the code and building the intelligence models that eliminate friction across the Go-To-Market stack. Working under a Senior technical leader, you will be responsible for the "heavy lifting" of backend engineering and Machine Learning implementation. You will bridge our custom quoting software and Salesforce with intelligent, agentic workflows that allow sales users to make faster, data-backed decisions. A day in the life (Responsibilities) - Hands-on Execution: Spend the majority of your time "hands-on-keyboard," architecting and coding high-performance backend services and ML pipelines. - 0-to-1 Development: Build and prototype new internal products from scratch that leverage LLMs and Agentic AI to automate account research, lead prioritization, and complex quoting logic. - Core Intelligence Models: Design and implement ML models that provide real-time recommendations to sales users, reducing manual entry and increasing deal velocity. - Infrastructure Integration: Develop the backend connective tissue between our custom quoting engine, Salesforce, and internal data lakes to ensure a seamless, low-latency end-to-end experience. - Technical Problem Solving: Act as a domain expert to solve complex synchronization

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