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Axion Ray

Senior/Staff Software Engineer (AI Insights)

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  • We’re hiring for a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to help lead our agile, fast-moving backend teams
  • In this role, you’ll design and build scalable agentic systems, backend services and data-processing workflows that transform complex, unstructured customer data into reliable, structured outputs
  • You’ll help shape the architecture of our APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, and LLM-powered and agentic systems while improving their reliability, observability, and performance
  • Working closely with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams, you’ll translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical direction and lead foundational decisions that scale with the company
  • This is a high-impact opportunity to shape the company’s technical strategy and make foundational decisions that will scale with us
  • Architect and operate multi-step, tool-using agentic pipelines that convert unstructured data into reliable structured output
  • Build evaluation frameworks, golden datasets, and feedback loops that measure quality and catch regressions
  • Improve model performance through prompt and pipeline optimization, model selection, and fine-tuning where it pays off
  • Own the reliability of cloud-native services: deployment, observability, scalability, and on-call support
  • Mentor engineers and lead cross-team technical initiatives from design through production

Benefits

  • Employee stock option program
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
  • Relocation support
  • Commuter benefits
  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage (100% of employee premiums covered and 70% for dependents)
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave (birthing parents)
  • Daily lunch credit when you’re in the office (around $20/day)
  • 401(k) plan with optional supplemental life, disability, and more
  • Experience designing distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, and reliable data-processing services
  • 5+ years building and operating production backend or data-intensive systems
  • Experience measuring and improving model quality, through evals, prompting, fine-tuning, or a mix
  • Production experience with LLM systems, including multi-step, tool-using, or agentic workflows
  • Working knowledge of data warehousing, ideally applied to versioned datasets, lineage, or feedback capture
  • Experience running containerized applications on a major cloud platform ([AWS/GCP/Azure])
  • Fine-tuning or distillation experience (SFT, LoRA, or provider tuning APIs)
  • Experience with LLM observability and cost/latency optimization

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