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Principal Software Engineer

Midjourney · San Francisco · San Francisco Bay Area Hybrid

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Applied AIhybridprincipal$268K – $279K
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Act as technical lead for large parts of the scanner platform.
  • Own core runtime foundations for distributed control and reliability.
  • Build observability with replayable diagnostics for real hardware.

Ideal candidate

Seasoned systems builder who thrives on complex real-world products and cares deeply about reliability, observability, and maintainability. Pragmatic technical leader who mentors others and makes clear trade-offs.

Requirements

  • Deep software architecture experience for real-world systems like robotics, instrumentation, or medical devices
  • Strong Python and concurrency background with asyncio, multiprocessing, and performance engineering
  • Track record shipping observable, debuggable, and resilient systems
  • Strong technical leadership with clarity, pragmatic trade-offs, and mentoring
  • Experience building robust systems with clear interfaces, state modeling, and failure handling
  • High-leverage habits on lean teams: tests, CI, reproducible environments, fast review
  • Security-minded device software with safe defaults and disciplined PII/PHI handling
  • Operational thinking: remote updates, logging, and diagnostics for real hardware

Lab profile

About Midjourney

Independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding imaginative powers.

What they build

  • Text-to-image generative AI models
  • Web and mobile creative platform

Known for

  • Generative AI research
  • Product design
  • Human infrastructure

Key facts

  • Small team
  • Self-funded
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