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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.
ML Infrastructure Engineer
Dyna Robotics is hiring an ML Infrastructure Engineer in Redwood City (in office 5 days/week) to own training infrastructure end to end: scaling distributed training across multi-cloud GPU fleets, building scheduling tooling, and optimizing low-latency inference for robot control. Core stack includes PyTorch, FSDP/ZeRO, Kubernetes, SLURM, CUDA, and TensorRT/Triton.
Product Manager, Enterprise Finance
Founding Product Manager at fintech Slash (San Francisco, 5 days/week in office) owning the 0-to-1 Enterprise Finance roadmap: accounting integrations, AP/AR, and expense management for large organizations. Needs 5-9 years of PM experience in fintech/accounting products plus AI-native prototyping skills (Cursor, Replit, Figma, Linear).
Senior Frontend Engineer
Senior frontend engineer at Retell AI building React-heavy user experiences — dashboards, analytics, and customer-facing tools — for its voice-AI call center platform. You write production React/TypeScript, own projects end to end on a ~7-person team reporting to the CTO, and work on-site in Redwood City.
AI Field Engineer - Enterprise
AI Field Engineer - Enterprise Company: Confidential — generative AI inference and fine-tuning platform Location: US-based, remote-friendly (offices in San Mateo, CA and New York, NY); regular travel to enterprise…