SeniorFull TimeEN
At The Stepstone Group, we have a simple yet very important mission: The right job for everyone. Using our data, platform, and technology, we create opportunities for jobseekers and companies around the world to find a perfect match in fair and equitable way. With over 20 brands across 30+ countries, we strive for fair and unbiased hiring.
Join our team of 3,000+ employees and be part of reshaping the labour market and becoming the world’s leading job platform.
About our Marketplace Enablement Org and User Dialogue Team
Within Marketplace Enablement, we build the technology that helps candidates and recruiters find the right match. Our teams deliver data products, search and recommendations, and intelligent user dialogue capabilities using modern engineering practices, AI and cloud-native technology.
Within this org, our User Dialogue team, are building the next generation of conversational and agentic AI experiences. This includes intelligent candidate engagement, personalised outreach, messaging journeys, and AI-powered systems that support users through complex recruitment journeys.
By joining this team, you will be playing a vital role as together we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.
The Role
We are recruiting for a Staff Software Engineer (AI) to help design, build and evolve production-grade agentic AI systems. This is a strategic, hands-on engineering leadership role focused on integrating Large Language Models into scalable, secure, reliable and observable architectures. This is an individual contributor leadership role with no direct line management responsibility.
You will help move our agentic AI capabilities beyond experimentation and into dependable products that operate safely and effectively at scale across our global marketplace. Working closely with software engineers, machine learning engineers, data scientists, product managers, analysts and technical leaders, you will shape how we build, test, deploy, monitor and govern AI-powered systems.
Success in this role will depend as much on influence and communication as on technical depth. You will need to create alignment across teams, explain complex concepts clearly, and help others make confident, pragmatic decisions.
Your responsibilities
As a Staff Software Engineer (AI), you will:
We’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
Our commitment
Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.
As a global business we further our DEI and sustainability progress by working with national and international bodies and are proud to have been recognised for our work - both locally and internationally, including:
Armed Forces Covenant: Silver Award, Employer Recognition Scheme
EcoVadis: Bronze Award
Fertility Friendly Employer, accredited by Fertility Matters at Work
RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability) Awards: Inclusive Technology Award 2024
Stonewall: Gold Award
Stonewall: Top 100 Workplace Equality Index (85)
