As a Staff Engineer, you will play a pivotal role architecting and building backend services, automating workflows, and scaling data infrastructure. You'll move fast, operate in ambiguity, and shape the direction of the product from the early days. This role blends software engineering with infrastructure expertise; you'll own core systems that power products and development workflows.
What You'll Do
- Infrastructure & API Scaling: Set up inference/serving infrastructure and API serving at scale for clients with millions of requests.
- Data Pipeline Engineering: Build scalable systems that ingest, process, and retrieve data from the web, files, and other sources.
- AI Systems: Build systems capable of running AI agents, synthetically generating data, and evaluating data.
- Tooling & Reliability: Develop supporting services and tooling that improve scalability and reliability.
- Collaboration: Partner with the founding team and creative experts to scope and implement AI-driven features.
What We're Looking For
- Systems Expertise: Strong background in cloud infrastructure, systems design, and automation.
- DevOps Mindset: Experience building or maintaining CI/CD systems and tooling.
- AI Literacy: Familiarity with AI/LLM-powered and embedding-based systems.
- Data Extraction: Familiarity with web scraping, data extraction, and large-scale processing operations.
- Technical Proficiency: Strong experience with Python.
- Tech Stack: Python, React, TypeScript.
Additional Details
- Equity: 0.25% – 1.5%
- Work Policy: In-office (San Francisco).
- Visa Support: Sponsorship available for transfers and simple visas; potential for full sponsorship for exceptional candidates.