Senior AI Engineer (Full-Stack)
Senior AI Engineer (Full-Stack) at The Hog — BR, US
- Company: The Hog
- Location: BR, US
- Employment type: CONTRACTOR
- Salary: USD 40000–85000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
We are hiring a Senior AI Engineer to help build the core systems behind The Hog, an AI-native platform that automates growth, prospecting, and revenue generation for B2B companies.
This is a senior, hands-on role. You will design and build production-grade AI systems end to end, work directly with customers, and own large parts of the technical surface area. You should enjoy ambiguous problems, heavy systems work, and talking to users as much as writing code.
This role is ideal for someone who wants real ownership, high impact, and proximity to customers without the title baggage.
What you will do
Design and build AI-driven systems that run continuously in production
Own backend and full-stack features from idea to deployment
Build and maintain reliable async systems (jobs, queues, workflows, retries, failure handling)
Work directly with customers to understand problems, debug issues, and ship improvements quickly
Design clean service boundaries and APIs across a growing system
Help set technical direction, patterns, and quality bars as the team scales
Operate and improve production systems (observability, reliability, performance)
What we are looking for
Available for full-time hours
Be able to work during PST (Pacific Time Zone)
Strong systems engineer with deep backend experience
Comfortable across the stack (Node, TypeScript, Next.js)
Customer-obsessed and opinionated about developer and user experience
Enjoys ambiguity and building from first principles
Able to reason about scale, failure modes, and long-running processes
Communicates clearly with both engineers and customers
Experience
At least 7 years of professional software engineering experience
Experience shipping and owning production systems end to end
Experience working closely with customers is a big plus
Startup experience is a plus but not required
Technical background (you should have strong experience in at least one of these)
Distributed job / workflow systems such as Temporal, Trigger.dev, DBOS, or Airflow
Queuing systems such as BullMQ or similar
Heavy async systems, background processing, retries, idempotency
Service-oriented or event-driven architectures
CI/CD and production operations
LLM-powered systems and AI-driven products
Tech stack (today)
TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js
Queues, workflows, and background workers
Postgres and modern data tooling
LLMs and AI agents in production
Why this role
You will work on real systems used by real customers
You will have outsized ownership and influence on the product
You will help define how AI-native companies are built
Small team, high trust, high bar
If you are a senior engineer who enjoys building heavy systems, talking to customers, and owning real outcomes, we would love to talk.