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Hercules
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Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Open 31d HybridNorth AmericaStaff 2 questions
United States
San Francisco

Staff-level infrastructure engineer in San Francisco building and maintaining the infrastructure behind Hercules' AI app-development platform — the AI agent, app builder, app hosting, SDKs, and enterprise platform — using TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, Temporal, Docker, and Cloudflare/AWS.

AI Anthropic API Api Design AWS +15 skills
100K – 300K $
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Hercules
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Staff Software Engineer, Product

Open 31d HybridNorth AmericaStaff 2 questions
United States
San Francisco

Staff-level product engineer building user-facing features for Hercules' AI-powered app-building platform — the AI Agent, App Builder, SDK, mobile PWA, and platform. Core stack is TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, and frontier AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google), working in-office in San Francisco.

A/B Testing AI Analytics Anthropic API +16 skills
100K – 300K $
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Hercules
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Staff Software Engineer, AI Agent

Open 31d HybridNorth AmericaStaff 2 questions
United States
San Francisco

Staff-level engineer who builds, owns, and improves Hercules' AI coding agent, including online/offline evals and research to make the agent cheaper, faster, and more accurate. Works with a TypeScript/React stack plus Postgres, Redis, Temporal, and frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

AI Anthropic API Api Design AWS +13 skills
100K – 350K $
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Ambrook
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Software Engineer, AI

Open 31d HybridNorth America 7 questions
United States
San Francisco

Ambrook is hiring a Software Engineer, AI in San Francisco to build LLM-powered systems that automate bookkeeping and financial workflows for farmers and small-business owners. Day to day involves building AI assistants, document extraction, evaluation infrastructure, and internal AI tooling using TypeScript, Next.js, and LLM APIs on Google Cloud.

AI Anthropic API Backbone.js BigQuery +17 skills
115K – 260K $
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Fermor
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Founding Software Engineering Intern

Open 31d APACInternshipIntern
India
Bengaluru

Fermor is hiring a founding software engineering intern to work onsite in Bengaluru with the founding team on software development. It is an entry-level role for freshers; no specific tech stack or salary is mentioned.
Thomas Talent Network
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Member of Technical Staff

Open 31d North AmericaFull-time
United States
San Francisco, California

Join a seed-stage San Francisco startup building the simulation, observability, and evaluation layer for voice AI agents. You'll architect scalable AWS infrastructure (Lambda, EC2, WebSockets, SIP) handling millions of real-time conversations, owning the stack end to end in a full-time, in-person, customer-facing role.

Agentic AI AI AWS Cloud Conversational AI +4 skills
160K – 220K $
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Transparent Search Group
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Member of Technical Staff - Model Optimization and Inference

Open 32d North AmericaFull-time
United States
Seattle, Washington

ML infrastructure/systems engineer at Nuance Labs owning end-to-end inference optimization for real-time AI avatar models (LLMs, audio, diffusion) — tuning KV cache strategies, deploying serving frameworks like vLLM and TensorRT-LLM, applying quantization, and profiling latency/throughput. On-site in Seattle 5 days/week with relocation and visa support.

AI Airflow CUDA Dagster Distributed Systems +12 skills
250K – 350K $
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Transparent Search Group
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Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Open 32d North AmericaFull-timeStaff
United States
San Francisco, California

Senior or Staff full-stack software engineer at Opal Security building identity governance and access-management features end to end — from architecture decisions through production — for Fortune 500 and startup customers. Full-stack product engineering with direct customer validation; identity/IAM/security experience is a plus.

AI Databricks Figma IAM
140K – 250K $
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Transparent Search Group
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Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Open 32d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeStaff
United States
New York, New York

Senior/Staff Software Engineer at Loancrate, a remote US startup building AI-native mortgage loan origination software. You'd ship full-stack features in TypeScript/React/Node.js on AWS and architect multi-step AI agents for lending workflows. Pays $150k-$350k plus equity; no visa sponsorship.

Agentic AI AI AWS Docker ECS +13 skills
150K – 350K $
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Transparent Search Group
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Founding Engineer

Open 32d North AmericaFull-timeLead
United States
New York, New York

Founding engineer at Spring, a Series A AI-native lender, building an AI CFO agent and extending in-house lending, payments, and bank-transaction analysis systems. Day to day: strong Python backend work, daily AI-native coding with agents, and owning projects as an early technical leader. On-site in New York; $175k-$250k plus equity.

AI GitHub Python Rails
175K – 250K $
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Nameless Ventures
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Senior Python Developer

Open 32d MENASenior
United Arab Emirates
Dubai

Senior Python Engineer for a funded early-stage fintech startup in Dubai building an AI-powered, fully automated trading system for real-world prediction markets (B2B). Day to day: 0-1 building with Python, a major cloud platform, and AI coding tools, working hybrid from Dubai as part of the founding team.

AI AWS Azure Fintech GCP +1 skills
25K – 30K AED / mo
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Build AI
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Member of Technical Staff, Software

Open 33d APACFull-time No extra questions
China
Shenzhen

Builds the software that scales Build AI's physical-labor data collection: an Android/web vendor platform for device assignment, attendance, and payments, petabyte-scale upload/storage pipelines, and ML-based data QA. Full-stack, end-to-end ownership, in person in Shenzhen alongside the founders.

AI Android API Data Pipelines Machine Learning
150K – 500K $
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Groupthink
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Senior Software Engineer

Open 33d RemoteNorth AmericaSenior
United States

Senior Software Engineer at Groupthink, an early-stage startup building meeting facilitation and productivity software. You'll ship end-to-end features (frontend, APIs, bot services and lambdas) with PHP/Laravel, React, Python, and AWS on a small, 100% remote US team.

API AWS Docker GitHub JavaScript +7 skills
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Wayve Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund
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Software Engineer, Fleet Management

Open 33d HybridNorth America 5 questions
United States
Sunnyvale, California USA

Software engineer on Wayve's Fleet Management team building full-stack features across web apps, backend services, APIs and cloud infrastructure to deploy, monitor and operate a global fleet of autonomous vehicles. Stack touches React/TypeScript on the frontend and backend services in Go/Rust/Node.js on Azure/Kubernetes.

AI API Automation Azure Bazel +8 skills
177K – 199K $
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Beacon AI
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Software Engineer, Advanced Pilot Assistant Software (Autonomy/Robotics)

Open 51d HybridNorth AmericaFull-time 7 questions H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States
San Carlos

Beacon AI is hiring a Software Engineer to build advanced pilot assistance (autonomy/robotics/embedded) software for its aviation flight-safety platform. Day to day you'll write production Python/C++, integrate software with sensors and edge compute hardware, and help test and deploy safety-critical autonomy systems.

AI C++ Data Ingestion Embedded Software Embedded Systems +1 skills
135K – 168K $
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Beacon AI
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Senior Software Engineer, Advanced Pilot Assistant Software (Autonomy/Robotics)

Open 33d HybridNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior 7 questions H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States
San Carlos

Senior Software Engineer building autonomy, robotics, and embedded software for Beacon AI's pilot assistance / flight safety platform — writing Python and C++, integrating with sensors and edge compute, and validating safety-critical systems. Hybrid role based in San Carlos, CA with 3+ days onsite per week.

AI C++ Data Ingestion Embedded Software Embedded Systems +1 skills
173K – 225K $
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Wayve Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund
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Senior Software Engineer, Fleet Management

Open 33d HybridNorth AmericaSenior 3 questions
United States
Sunnyvale, California USA

Senior engineer on Wayve's Fleet Management team building the full-stack platform that connects operators and engineers to a global autonomous-vehicle fleet — OTA/software deployment, vehicle health, telemetry tooling and robotaxi dispatch integrations. Stack includes React/TypeScript, Rust/Go/Node.js, and Kubernetes/Azure/Bazel.

AI API Automation Azure Bazel +9 skills
210K – 238K $
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Beacon AI
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Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Open 33d HybridNorth AmericaFull-timeStaff 9 questions H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States
San Carlos

Staff Software Engineer to lead Beacon AI's AWS cloud foundation and LLM platform: designing IaC-based infrastructure, CI/CD, RAG/vector-search data systems, model endpoints (Bedrock/SageMaker), and eval/observability tooling for aviation AI products. Core stack is AWS (Terraform/CDK), Python, and LangChain; hybrid role based in San Carlos, CA.

A/B Testing AI Airflow Analytics API +52 skills
224K – 260K $
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Beacon AI
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Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Open 33d HybridNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior 9 questions H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States
San Carlos

Senior engineer who designs, builds, and operates Beacon AI's AWS cloud foundation and LLM platform — IaC-managed infrastructure, CI/CD, secure networking, RAG/vector-search data systems, model endpoints (Bedrock/SageMaker), and observability for AI-powered aviation products. Hybrid role based in San Carlos, CA.

A/B Testing AI Airflow Analytics API +52 skills
173K – 225K $
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Wayve Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund
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Staff Validation Systems Engineer, AI Validation

Open 33d HybridNorth AmericaStaff 4 questions
United States
Sunnyvale, California USA

Staff-level validation systems engineer at Wayve defining validation strategies, test scenarios, metrics, coverage, and acceptance criteria for L2+ autonomous driving features and new AI Driver capabilities. Day to day is hands-on Python evaluation tooling, SQL-based data analysis, simulation, and communicating evidence to Product, Safety, and Autonomy teams.

Acceptance Criteria AI Automation Computer Vision Machine Learning +2 skills
276K – 311K $
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