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Member of Technical Staff - Model Optimization and Inference
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.
Senior/Staff Software Engineer
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.
Senior/Staff Software Engineer
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.
Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems
Designs, builds and deploys production C++ autonomy software onboard Saildrone's autonomous maritime vessels, working across perception, localization, planning and collision avoidance with sensor fusion (radar/camera), Nvidia Jetson onboard compute, ROS and Python tooling. Hybrid role based in Alameda, CA (3 days/week in office).
Founding Engineer
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.
Software Engineer
Rilla, a New York startup whose AI turns in-person field sales conversations into coaching data, is hiring a software engineer with 1-3 years of experience to build end-to-end features across React, React Native, TypeScript, and Python, shipping fast and working in the office 5 days a week. Pays $193k-$258k plus equity.
Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core)
Software Engineer focused on building and scaling a high-throughput data syncing engine and low-latency personalization APIs. The role involves optimizing distributed systems across multi-cloud environments using technologies like Kafka, Kubernetes, and SQL databases to handle massive data volumes for marketing personalization.
Staff Systems Engineer
Staff-level systems engineer at Blacksmith (on-site in New York) who owns the architecture of large-scale bare-metal infrastructure orchestrating millions of Firecracker VMs, works at the kernel and filesystem level (Linux, eBPF, cgroups, Ceph), and mentors senior engineers while the company triples compute capacity.
Systems Engineer
Systems engineer at Dedalus Labs, an 8-person YC S25 startup, building low-level compute primitives for AI agents — virtualization, sandboxing, persistent state, and distributed storage/networking at the kernel and hypervisor level. Heavy Rust/Go/C/C++ systems programming; on-site in San Francisco, $180k–$300k plus 0.5–1% equity.
Member of Technical Staff
Member of Technical Staff at Wafer AI, a ~7-person AI inference cloud startup in San Francisco. You work close to the hardware on the LLM serving stack: day-zero model support, batching/KV cache/quantization optimization, and writing CUDA/HIP/Triton GPU kernels across NVIDIA, AMD, TPU and Trainium hardware, on-site 5 days a week.
Member of Technical Staff - Applied ML
Applied ML engineer at Basis, an AI-agent startup for accounting, owning end-to-end projects that make agents reason, plan, and evaluate themselves: designing multi-agent architectures, managing context/memory, and building evaluation, retrieval, and document-parsing pipelines in Python, Postgres, and LLMs. Onsite in NYC 5 days/week.
Member of Technical Staff - Atlas
Full-stack/agent engineer on Basis's internal Atlas team, building AI agent systems (coding agents, knowledge systems, self-healing services) embedded with internal teams to automate jobs end to end. Stack: TypeScript, Python, agent SDKs and LLM tooling; on-site in New York 5 days/week.
Member of Technical Staff, ML Systems
ML systems engineer at TensorScale who optimizes speed and efficiency across the training and inference stack for video, image, and world-model workloads. Day-to-day work involves writing CUDA/Triton GPU kernels, profiling with Nsight, and building distributed multi-node inference and training systems. Onsite in Menlo Park 5 days a week.
Senior Engineering Manager
Senior Engineering Manager Company: Confidential — AI-powered tools Location: San Francisco, CA (downtown office, 5 days per week) Compensation: $415,000 - $450,000 + competitive equity Employment Type: Full-time Visa…
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Bluejay (recruited via Transparent Search Group) seeks a Senior Member of Technical Staff in San Francisco to architect simulation/evaluation systems for voice AI agents and resilient AWS infrastructure (Lambda, EC2, WebSockets, SIP) for millions of real-time conversations. On-site 5 days/week; stack includes Python, FastAPI, Supabase, Redis, AWS, and LiveKit.
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer at Candid Health building a revenue cycle management (RCM) automation platform that automates health insurance claims for medical providers. Own services end to end across a Python, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, and GCP stack, working 4 days/week from the New York, San Francisco, or Denver office.
Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Interactives)
Builds the interactive building blocks behind Brilliant's graphical AI tutor — composable, API-exposed primitives that learning designers, content agents and the tutor use to compose lessons. The work is rendering-heavy web engineering, mostly in Elm with significant TypeScript, closer to a game engine than a typical web app.
Senior Systems Engineer
Blacksmith (posted via Transparent Search Group) is hiring a Senior Systems Engineer in New York (in office 5 days/week) to build and scale low-level distributed infrastructure — orchestrating millions of Firecracker VMs, petabyte-scale Ceph storage, and a global bare-metal fleet — writing performance-critical code in Go, Rust, or C/C++.
Software Engineer
Software Engineer at Strala, an AI-native startup automating insurance claims (intake, fraud detection, settlement). You'll build core backend infrastructure and architecture with Python, PostgreSQL, vector databases, and cloud tooling (GCP/AWS/Docker), shipping to production from day one on-site in San Francisco.
Software Engineer (AI Platform)
Software Engineer (2+ years) at Superblocks in New York building an AI coding-agent platform that lets non-engineers create production-grade internal apps. Day-to-day: LLM agents, memory/knowledge graphs, governance and distributed systems work in Python, on-site 5 days/week alongside the CTO.