Staff Engineer
Boston, MAJob$300–400K/yrPosted todayStill listed today
Most applications go out cold — see where you stand first. No sign-up to start.
You apply on the employer's site, with no Olive account needed.
Watch jobs like this. New roles like this one near Boston, MA, by email.
Don't just apply. Show up ready.
Olive works from this exact posting.
At a glance
Olive lists jobs from US employers, including remote roles you can work from the United States.
Requirements
Credentials this posting asks for.
Job overview
The Staff Engineer will lead complex, high-impact technical challenges in ASI’s Defense unit, architect new solutions, mentor software engineers, and define engineering excellence. The role values software development skills in Python, Rust, JavaScript, and TypeScript; infrastructure experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform; modern LLM tools; and time-series and geospatial data experience. Ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance is required.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
Compensation $300K – $400K • ASI is dedicated to maintaining fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range provided for this role reflects the minimum and maximum cash compensation targets for candidates across all U.S. locations and levels of expertise/experience. Additionally, all employees receive generous equity packages and have access to a comprehensive benefits offering. Actual compensation packages are determined based on relevant skills, experience, education and training. For more information, connect with the recruiting team or Hiring Manager during the process as they can provide more detailed information about the salary range based on the applicant’s position level and location within the overall range. About ASI is the frontier AI company that dynamically orchestrates critical infrastructure and defense assets, across air traffic control, energy, logistics, and combat operations. ASI's systems simulate physical operations, hours, days, and weeks ahead, so the people running air traffic control, the electric grid, and military operations can catch problems early and act before they spread. ASI is powering vital infrastructure for customers like United Airlines, National Grid, the Federal Aviation Administration, Delta Air Lines and the Department of War. ASI is headquartered in Boston with offices in Washington, DC, Denver, and Europe, and is backed by leading investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Citadel Securities, and Spark Capital. What You Will Do As a staff engineer, you will lead the most complex and high impact technical challenges in our Defense unit. You will architect new solutions and mentor other software engineers. You will define what engineering excellence looks like. What We Value
-
Strong software development skills, specifically in Python, Rust, JavaScript, Typescript.
-
Experience w/ building infrastructure in AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform.
-
Proficient in leveraging modern LLM tools to accelerate development workflows and enhance code quality.
-
Experience working with time-series and geospatial data.
-
Talent and experience to lead.
-
Ability to travel.
-
Ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance is required.
-
Flexibility to adjust to changing business priorities.
How We Hire We look at the interview process not as a screening or test, but rather as an opportunity to simulate what it would look like working together. We build the interview process around you Eligibility ASI works with export controlled technology and restricted U.S. Government data, including on contracts mandating U.S. immigration status and location restrictions for performing personnel. Employment offers are contingent on ability to timely obtain all required authorizations for contemplated job duties.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,209 open Staff Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$300–400K/yr
- Massachusetts median$169–254K/yr29 salary ranges
- US median$177–257K/yr987 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $350K, is 67% above the Massachusetts median midpoint ($210K) — in the top quarter of Staff Engineer salary ranges in Massachusetts.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 34 open Staff Engineer jobs in Massachusetts and 1,209 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Massachusetts
- Capital One5 open
- Teradata3 open
- Axon2 open
- Experience
- Staff Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 8 years (1,039 postings).
- Education
- 683 of the 1,209 open Staff Engineer jobs (56%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
Prepare for this role
You've read the whole posting — now see how you match it.
