Founding Applied AI Backend Engineer — Production Systems

Myto; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Myto in Palo Alto, CA is hiring an Applied AI Engineer to turn messy, real-world data into production intelligence. You’ll own backend-heavy AI systems end to end, including multi-modal ingestion pipelines, retrieval and reasoning systems, evaluation loops, and APIs that drive real-world decisions.

Frontend experience is optional but a strong plus. You’ll design fast, reliable, observable system components and collaborate with customers and product to ship features that move metrics.

Qualifications

• Design and implement backend-heavy AI/ML systems for production use.
• Build scalable APIs and data pipelines that power real-time decisions.
• Design and optimize data flows and system architecture for reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship system-level components that are fast, reliable, and observable
• Build and own APIs that are clean, composable, and production-grade
• Design evaluation and feedback loops that continuously improve model behavior
• Work directly with customers and product to ship what actually moves metrics
• Own reliability end to end: logging, crash capture, watchdogs, diagnostics

Skills

Backend fundamentals

API design

TypeScript

Cloud infrastructure

Data systems

Production-grade systems

System observability

Job description

Myto in Palo Alto, CA is hiring an Applied AI Engineer to turn messy, real-world data into production intelligence. You’ll own backend-heavy AI systems end to end, including multi-modal ingestion pipelines, retrieval and reasoning systems, evaluation loops, and APIs that drive real-world decisions.

Frontend experience is optional but a strong plus. You’ll design fast, reliable, observable system components and collaborate with customers and product to ship features that move metrics.