Software Engineer, Applied AI - Systems

Highlights

• Build backend systems that turn human expertise into frontier model training data.
• Own services end-to-end from design through production operation and on-call.
• Scale high-throughput pipelines and job systems as platform volume grows monthly.

What they offer

• Bi-annual performance bonus structure
• Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
• Up to $15k relocation bonus
• $10K housing bonus if living within 0.5 miles of office
• $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
• Free Equinox membership
• $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
• $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
• Health, Dental, Vision insurance

Ideal candidate

Backend builder with 2-5 years operating production systems who thrives on ownership, ambiguity, and shipping fast. You care about correctness, reliability, and working in a talent-dense in-person team pushing AI forward.

Requirements

• 2-5 years of professional backend engineering experience building and operating production systems
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and clear maintainable code
• Hands-on API design experience with REST, gRPC, or GraphQL including versioning and backward compatibility
• Solid relational data modeling, indexing, query performance, transactions and safe migrations
• Familiarity with NoSQL or key-value stores and when to use them
• Practical distributed systems basics: queues, caching, idempotency, rate limiting and partial failure design
• Experience with data orchestration and workflow systems like Airflow, Temporal, Dagster
• Experience running services in production with containers, CI/CD, monitoring and debugging under traffic
• Comfort with ambiguity and turning loosely defined problems into plans
• Fluency with modern AI dev tools and excitement for agentic development
• Clear written and verbal communication with high ownership and bias to shipping