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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 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.
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Operate
Owns end-to-end delivery of AI agent deployments for major US health systems and pharma: architecting production systems, integrating with EHR/EMR, claims and CRM under HIPAA, and presenting to executives. Remote US role built on JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS and GCP.
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).
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.
Forward Deployed Engineer
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at XDOF, a ~20-person startup building training data for physical AI and robotics. Day to day, you own end-to-end data delivery for strategic robotics and frontier AI customers — pipelines, scoping, QA, and technical support — using Python, data pipelines, and MCAP/HDF5 formats.
Forward Deployed Engineer (New York)
Forward Deployed Engineer at Beacon Software, a software holding company that buys and grows vertical market software businesses. You embed with portfolio companies to build, ship and operate agentic LLM software end to end, using TypeScript/Python, React, SQL and evals. NYC-based, 3+ days 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.