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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.
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.
Staff Software Engineer - Biller Workflows
Staff engineer (8+ yrs) at healthcare company Commure, setting technical direction for the biller-workflow platform in its practice-management product and leading a multi-team rebuild of high-traffic claims surfaces. Core stack: React 19, TypeScript, Python/FastAPI, PostgreSQL, plus LLM/AI features and EDI X12.
Forward Deployed Engineer
A forward deployed engineer at Strala, an AI-native insurance claims company, owns client deployments end to end — deploying multi-modal, agentic AI systems into production, integrating with client APIs and systems, and shaping the product based on what works. Core stack: Python, APIs, cloud platforms, and LLM/prompt engineering, working on-site in San Francisco.
Founding AI/ML Engineer
Founding AI/ML engineer at Closure, a YC-backed startup helping US law enforcement search digital evidence. You'll build retrieval pipelines over massive video/audio/text datasets, integrate LLMs and VLMs into investigative workflows, and ship secure distributed systems end to end.
Founding Engineer - Applied AI
Antes, a stealth startup building AI for complex hardware manufacturers, is hiring a founding Applied AI Engineer to design, build, and post-train AI agents that automate hardware engineering workflows in enterprise tools. Core stack centers on LLMs and ML libraries like PyTorch, Hugging Face, and Weights & Biases.
Frontend Software Engineer
Frontend Software Engineer at David AI, an audio training-data company for AI labs, building data-heavy interfaces that help users explore terabytes of audio datasets. Day to day: shipping polished UI features in Next.js, TypeScript and Tailwind from a San Francisco office 5 days a week.
Full-Stack Engineer
Full-stack engineer at Helium, an AI startup whose SDK auto-generates and tests product experiences (onboarding/paywalls) for consumer apps like Calm. You'll ship Next.js frontend features and scalable Go backends serving millions daily, design data/ML training infrastructure, and own features end to end in-office in San Francisco Mon-Fri. Salary $150k-$250k plus 0.5-1.5% equity.
Full-Stack Engineer
Full-Stack Engineer at Judgment Labs (posted via Transparent Search Group) building product experiences and agent infrastructure for AI agent behavior monitoring — spanning data layer, UI, swarm interfaces, verification platforms, and SDK. Onsite in San Francisco 5 days/week, ~30% customer-facing, $200k-$300k.
Member of Technical Staff
At Bluejay (voice AI agent platform), a Member of Technical Staff builds simulation, analysis and evaluation systems for conversational AI, plus resilient AWS infrastructure handling millions of real-time calls, with full-stack ownership and on-site customer work. Stack: Python, FastAPI, Supabase, AWS, LLM and voice tooling; 5 days/week in San Francisco.
Member of Technical Staff - Full Stack
Full-stack engineer at Suppli, an AI-native accounts receivable/payments startup for B2B distributors. You'd build high-volume payment processing, ERP integrations (NetSuite, Sage, Acumatica), and LLM-powered A/R workflows end to end, using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, React, AWS, and Terraform, with AI coding tools part of daily work.
Member of Technical Staff, Head of Quality
Plato, an applied research lab building simulated environments and data infrastructure for training specialized AI agents, is hiring a hands-on Head of Quality in San Francisco. They review datasets and environment outputs, build automated QA/evaluation systems that catch reward hacking and broken verifiers, and hire and lead the QA team.
Member of Technical Staff, Inference Systems
Photon is hiring systems engineers to build a next-generation AI inference platform from scratch in Rust — owning batching, scheduling, KV cache management, request routing, and multi-GPU serving. It's an on-site role in Palo Alto for engineers with deep inference-internals knowledge.
AI Engineer
AI Engineer at X5 Labs, a Series A AI startup, to fork and customize a core AI/LLM platform for a top-five US bank — owning architecture, production deployments, integrations, and reliability in a regulated environment, with ~20% customer-facing work. Stack: Python, LLMs/GenAI/RAG, Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS/GCP/Azure.
Forward Deployed Engineer
Forward Deployed Engineer at Beacon Software, a software holding company: you embed with its portfolio companies, ship agentic LLM software into their live operations, and own outcomes end to end. Core stack is TypeScript/Python, React, SQL, LLM/eval tooling, plus Snowflake, Databricks and event-driven systems.
Senior/Staff Applied AI Engineer, Agent Harness
Build and own the core agent harness — execution loop, tool-use strategies, context construction, and release-gating evals — for Init's AI-coworker agent that automates IT work with security guarantees like per-task microVMs and model-blind credentials. In-person role in San Francisco using Python/TypeScript and modern LLM tooling.