Join Peregrine as a Staff Software Engineer to craft AI-driven features that enhance public safety solutions.
Posted by employer 1 day ago
First seen on Joblaze 7 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 7 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Deliver differentiated value to customers
- Craft powerful, intuitive user experiences powered by generative AI
- Scale platform to handle terabytes of data
- Optimize search algorithms
- Collaborate with deployment team and users
Must have
- Over 8 years of experience working with cross-functional software development teams
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Ability to write robust, well tested, and well-designed code
Nice to have
- Understanding of best practices for using generative AI responsibly
- Knowledge of how to train, deploy, integrate, and monitor machine learning models
- Experience shipping and iterating on production-grade software components
Practical constraints
- Located in Washington, DC and open to working in office
AI in the day-to-day
Your work will shape safe, impactful AI-driven features that help customers solve real-world problems.
Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Staff Software Engineer will focus on developing user-centric features powered by generative AI, addressing complex challenges such as data scaling and real-time querying. Proficiency in a tech stack that includes Python, Django, React, and various AWS services is essential, along with experience in machine learning model deployment. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with over eight years of experience who are comfortable taking ownership of significant projects and thrive in collaborative environments. The team emphasizes empathy and user feedback, ensuring that solutions are tailored to real-world applications.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 11, 2026. Last confirmed on Peregrine's careers page October 11, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 4 other locations at Peregrine: San Francisco, CA, United States, New York, NY, United States, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for AI/ML roles (median ~$190,000).
- Starts above 28% of 109 comparable staff ai/ml roles in United States that list Python we track (median $224,000 across 43 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 51.2% of 287 comparable staff ai/ml roles in United States; Redux appears in 1.4% of 287 comparable staff ai/ml roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in Washington, D.C., United States.
- What's the salary range?
- Peregrine lists $200,000–$275,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI role.
- Where is the role based?
- Peregrine is hiring for this position in Washington, D.C., United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Airflow, Bedrock, Celery, Django, Elasticsearch.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Peregrine targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI role at Peregrine.
From the original posting
Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors, Peregrine helps public safety organizations, state and local and governments, federal agencies, and private-sector institutions address society’s challenges with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Our AI-enabled platform turns siloed and disconnected data into operational intelligence — instantly surfacing mission-critical information to empower better, faster decisions that improve outcomes at every touchpoint. Today Peregrine supports hundreds of customers across 30+ states and two countries, serving more than 125 million people — and we’re amplifying our impact as we expand into the enterprise and internationally.
Team
As an engineering team, we believe strongly that empathy improves our solutions. Seeing how people use the product is a priority and the way we get to the right answer. Engineers will have the opportunity to work closely with our team onsite to understand the variety of use cases that Peregrine serves.
We value both ownership and collaboration—you will take full responsibility for major features and work closely with other engineers to drive them to completion. We believe that humility and empathy are essential for building the right solutions—you will collaborate directly with our deployment team and users as we iterate to solve their problems. Perseverance and creativity are crucial to executing our vision.
Role
As a member of our engineering team, you’ll be instrumental in delivering differentiated value to our customers. This team is charged with crafting powerful, intuitive user experiences powered by generative AI. You'll unlock entirely new ways for users to interact with our platform. Your work will shape safe, impactful AI-driven features that help customers solve real-world problems with greater speed and ease.
Your scope of work will include a wide range of complex challenges, including scaling our platform to handle terabytes of data ingested from a variety of sources, efficiently querying and notifying users on this data in realtime, and optimizing search algorithms to serve results quickly.
Our stack is constantly evolving but based on a backend foundation of Python, Django, Celery, Airflow, and Kafka; a frontend built in React, Redux, and Mapbox; data stores including PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch; machine learning models hosted in Bedrock and Sagemaker; and with AWS, Pulumi, Terraform, and Kubernetes as our underlying infrastructure.
About you
- Desire and drive to own large portions of the application from start to finish
- Passion for crafting and shipping software solutions that delight users
- Thrive on ambiguity and love taking on hard problems
- Excellent technical vision with the ability to synthesize product requests into strong and reliable software components
What we look for
- Understanding of best practices for using generative AI responsibly, with bonus experience applying LLMs to enhance user experience
- Knowledge of how to train, deploy, integrate, and monitor machine learning models
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Over 8 years of experience working with cross-functional software development teams.
- Experience shipping and iterating on production-grade software components professionally and / or in the open-source community
- Ability to write robust, well tested, and well-designed code that frequently gets deployed to users
- Strong best practices in modern software development and comfort navigating large codebases
- Located in Washington, DC and open to working in office
Salary Range: $200,000 - $275,000 Annually + Benefits + Equity (if applicable) + Bonus (if applicable)
Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, certifications or licenses, and specific work location. Information on the benefits offered is here.
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