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Senior Backend Engineer
Senior Backend Engineer at WisdomAI, an AI-native analytics/BI startup in San Mateo, CA (in office 4 days/week). You'll build and scale large data pipelines and latency-critical systems on cloud infrastructure, working across the whole codebase with the founding team. Core stack: Python, with Rust a plus.
Software Engineer (Backend)
SkyPilot, a startup building an open-source platform for running AI workloads across Kubernetes, 17+ clouds, and on-prem, is hiring a backend engineer with 3+ years of experience to design core multi-cloud execution systems. Day-to-day work is in Python/Go on distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, plus open-source community engagement.
Infrastructure Engineer
Infrastructure engineer at Porter.run, a PaaS that deploys apps into customers' own AWS, GCP, and Azure accounts. Day to day you build Go/Kubernetes software that provisions and rolls out infrastructure changes across hundreds of customer cloud accounts, working on-site in New York five 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, 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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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…
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 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 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 (C++ Systems)
Thunder Compute, a YC-backed GPU virtualization startup, is hiring a C++ systems engineer in San Francisco to build the core of its GPU virtualization library and GPU cloud platform. The role centers on microsecond-level performance optimization, low-level GPU systems research, and production systems debugging.
Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Post-Sales
Forward Deployed AI Engineer at DatologyAI: a post-sales technical advisor who owns onboarding, deployment, and production rollouts of its AI training-data curation platform for strategic customers across on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Core stack: Python/SQL, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, distributed systems, and data pipelines.
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.