Principal Software Engineer
Midjourney · San Francisco · San Francisco Bay Area Hybrid
CHECKED 23H AGO
Applied AIhybridprincipal$268K – $279K
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