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Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Senior Manufacturing Engineer Company: Confidential — defense production company Location: Torrance, CA or Rio Rancho, NM (in office 5 days per week) Compensation: $160,000 - $200,000 + competitive equity Employment…
Forward Deployed Engineer
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Reducto, a document AI platform that turns unstructured documents into structured data for LLM pipelines. You'll run evals, build custom demos and agents, and own technical success for enterprise accounts using Python, Bash and LLM tooling, from the San Francisco office 5 days a week.
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, Customer Studio Backend
Backend engineer on Hightouch's Customer Studio (its no-code data activation product), pushing warehouse performance via query optimization and pre-computed state, building analytics/experimentation features, moving toward real-time audience computation, and applying generative AI. Backend/distributed systems and SQL focus; remote in US/Canada or San Francisco.
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.
Deployment Strategist
Deployment Strategist at Valon, an AI-native mortgage servicing platform, owning end-to-end enterprise deployments of ValonOS for major US mortgage servicers — from on-site workflow discovery through platform configuration and adoption. Core tools include SQL, Python, and AI coding agents; hybrid in NYC or SF with 10-20% domestic travel.
Environmental Planning Engineer
Environmental Planning Engineer Company: Confidential — venture-backed technology company Location: San Francisco, CA (hybrid, Tuesday-Thursday in the Jackson Square office) Compensation: $120,000 - $200,000 +…
Forward Deployed Insights Engineer (Applied AI)
Translucent, a ~27-person New York startup building an agentic AI platform for healthcare finance, seeks a Forward Deployed Insights Engineer to build tailored agents, predictive models and customer context layers in Python and SQL, validate outputs with evals, and iterate with health system finance leaders. Requires 4 days/week in the Union Square office.
Founding Security Infrastructure Engineer
As the first security hire, you will build the security and privacy program from scratch, focusing on AWS infrastructure, IAM, SOC 2 compliance, and securing AI agent workflows for a fast-growing Series A startup in the mortgage tech space.
Full-Stack Engineer, Investment Platform
Full-stack engineer building internal investment platforms for portfolio monitoring and LP reporting using Python, React, and TypeScript, incorporating AI/LLM agents for data ingestion and querying.
Head of Engineering
Head of Engineering Company: Confidential — venture-backed technology company Location: New York, NY (in office 5 days per week strongly preferred) Compensation: $250,000 - $300,000 + up to 5% equity Employment Type:…
Head of Provider Strategy & Operations
Head of Provider Strategy & Operations Company: Confidential — built AI-first Location: New York, NY (on-site) Compensation: $200,000 - $230,000 + competitive equity Employment Type: Full-time Visa Sponsorship: Not…
Machine Learning Engineer - Infrastructure
Infrastructure engineer at Causal Labs (AI startup) building and optimizing large distributed ML training and inference clusters for a Large Physics foundation Model, starting with weather prediction. Core stack: FSDP, DeepSpeed, NVIDIA GPUs, Python/C++, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP/AWS/Azure; on-site in San Francisco 5 days a week.
Machine Learning Researcher
Machine learning researcher at Causal Labs (via Transparent Search Group) building a Large Physics foundation model starting with weather, working across the full ML stack — data pipelines, novel architectures, training, and evaluation — in Python/PyTorch on 100s–1000s of GPU clusters. Onsite in San Francisco 5 days a week.
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.