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Member of Technical Staff, Backend

Inflection · Palo Alto, CA

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build backend systems powering Pi, the world's first emotionally intelligent AI.
  • Design scalable services for real-time conversational AI platforms.
  • Own production systems ensuring reliability, performance, and uptime.

Ideal candidate

Experienced backend engineer passionate about human-centered, emotionally intelligent AI. Collaborative builder who thrives owning scalable production systems and partnering across research and product.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or related field
  • 5 years progressive post-baccalaureate software engineering or backend systems experience (Master's + 3 years accepted)
  • Experience building and maintaining backend services and APIs for production applications
  • Experience designing distributed systems for scalable, high-availability applications
  • Experience with relational and/or non-relational databases for backend services
  • Experience deploying and operating backend systems in cloud or containerized environments
  • Experience monitoring, debugging and resolving production system issues
  • Experience collaborating cross-functionally to translate requirements into backend solutions

Lab profile

About Inflection

Builds human-centered, emotionally intelligent AI combining EQ and IQ via Pi.

What they build

  • Pi
  • Inflection foundation model

Known for

  • Emotionally intelligent AI
  • Human-centered AI
  • Agentic AI systems
  • Realtime voice AI
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