DocuSign

Sr. AI Engineer

DocuSign$164K — $266K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of back-end software engineering experience
  • 3+ years in AI/ML engineering or SaaS automation
  • Proven experience with scalable, production-grade distributed systems
  • Familiarity with AI tools like Copilot or Claude
  • Proficiency in Go or similar languages
  • Solid experience in Python for AI/ML modeling

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement production-grade AI systems
  • Build AI services integrating with enterprise systems
  • Lead end-to-end delivery of AI solutions
  • Define architectural standards for AI systems
  • Apply AI to enhance revenue workflows
  • Translate business requirements into technical designs
  • Communicate AI concepts to diverse stakeholders

Benefits

  • Paid Time Off with regional holidays
  • Paid Parental Leave for new parents
  • Full health benefits from day one
  • Retirement plans with potential employer contributions
  • Learning and Development support
  • Compassionate Care Leave for life events
Full Job Description
What you'll do

We are seeking an AI Engineer who can operate at the intersection of AI/ML, distributed systems, and enterprise business platforms. This role will help in the design and implementation of AI-driven capabilities across CRM, CPQ, Billing, and Revenue systems, enabling automation, intelligence, and scale across go-to-market workflows.

This is a hands-on technical role. You will architect, prototype, and productionize AI solutions while partnering closely with Product, Sales Ops, RevOps, Finance, and Engineering teams.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Director, Engineering.

Responsibility
  • Design and implement production-grade AI systems, including: agentic workflows, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), embedding and vector-search architectures and tool-calling and orchestration patterns
  • Build AI services that integrate securely with enterprise systems of record (CRM, CPQ, Billing)
  • Lead end-to-end AI solution delivery-from prototype to hardened, scalable production systems
  • Define architectural standards for AI reliability, latency, observability, and cost efficiency
  • Apply AI to core revenue workflows such as quote configuration and pricing recommendations, discounting and approval automation, contract intelligence and renewal forecasting and billing anomaly detection and revenue leakage prevention
  • Understand lead-to-cash processes and translate business requirements into technical designs
    Partner with domain experts to ensure AI outputs are accurate, explainable, and trusted.
  • Act as a Staff-level technical owner, influencing architecture across multiple teams
  • Review designs, mentor senior engineers, and raise the engineering bar for AI systems
  • Establish best practices for data access and governance, model evaluation and guardrails and security, compliance, and privacy (PII, SOC, GDPR)
  • Partner closely with Product, Architecture, Security, Legal, and Data teams
  • Serve as a technical advisor to leadership on AI strategy for GTM systems
  • Communicate complex AI concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders


Job Designation

Hybrid: Employee divides their time between in-office and remote work. Access to an office location is required. (Frequency: Minimum 2 days per week; may vary by team but will be weekly in-office expectation)

Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law.

What you bring

Basic
  • 8+ years of professional back-end software engineering experience
  • 3+ years in AI/ML engineering, LLM-based systems, or advanced SaaS automation
  • Experience building scalable, production-grade distributed systems using microservice architecture
  • Experience in developing using AI tools like Copilot, Cursor, or Claude, and able to set up a framework to improve Eng team productivity
  • Experience with Go or a similar language
  • Experience working with Python for AI/ML modeling, experimentation, and prototyping

Preferred
  • Proven experience designing and building AI-driven solutions for CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) platforms
  • Strong understanding of subscription-based B2B business models (eg Recurring revenue, Usage-based pricing, etc)
  • Experience with framework/architecture set-ups to build an agentic solution for a subscription-based industry in CPQ domain
  • Experience building AI services that integrate with enterprise systems of record (CRM, CPQ, Billing).
  • Deep understanding of LLM concepts and interworking
  • Deep understanding of LangChain/LangGraph
  • Experience Implementing agentic workflows to improve Seller productivity for a subscription-based industry
  • Experience with AWS cloud platform
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Familiarity with modern CI/CD pipelines, observability, and system reliability practices


Wage Transparency

Pay for this position is based on a number of factors including geographic location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Based on applicable legislation, the below details pay ranges in the following locations:

California: $164,700.00 - $266,000.00 base salary

This role is also eligible for the following:
  • Bonus: Sales personnel are eligible for variable incentive pay dependent on their achievement of pre-established sales goals. Non-Sales roles are eligible for a company bonus plan, which is calculated as a percentage of eligible wages and dependent on company performance.
  • Stock: This role is eligible to receive Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).


Global benefits provide options for the following:
  • Paid Time Off: earned time off, as well as paid company holidays based on region
  • Paid Parental Leave: take up to six months off with your child after birth, adoption or foster care placement
  • Full Health Benefits Plans: options for 100% employer paid and minimum employee contribution health plans from day one of employment
  • Retirement Plans: select retirement and pension programs with potential for employer contributions
  • Learning and Development: options for coaching, online courses and education reimbursements
  • Compassionate Care Leave: paid time off following the loss of a loved one and other life-changing events

About DocuSign

DocuSign is a software company that provides electronic signature technology and digital transaction management services for facilitating electronic exchanges of contracts and signed documents. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. DocuSign's cloud-based platform allows users to sign, send, and manage documents anytime, anywhere, and from any device. The company's customers include individuals, small businesses, and large enterprises across a variety of industries, including real estate, financial services, healthcare, and government. DocuSign has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States and has received numerous awards for its innovative technology and business practices.
Learn more about DocuSign
Size
7,461 employees
Market Cap
$10.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$243.2 million
Founded
2003
5 Year Trend
+40.8%
Revenue
$1.4 billion
NASDAQ

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