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