Founding Systems Engineer — AI Infra & Reliability (Equity)

Pax Historia

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity
Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Pax Historia is creating the future of interactive entertainment. You will own the system that enables our platform to send requests to 37+ AI providers, ensuring reliability and low latency for 30 billion+ tokens monthly.

This founding engineer role is in San Francisco, in-person, with meaningful equity and visa sponsorship. If you’re detail-oriented, data-driven, and a fast learner, this could be a great fit.

Qualifications

  • Detail-oriented and data-driven with a strong tendency to verify everything.
  • Fast learner with extremely strong fundamentals.

Responsibilities

  • Own the system that sends huge numbers of requests across many AI providers.
  • Improve provider reliability, structured outputs, caching, routing, and monitoring.
  • Ensure that 37+ models handle 30B+ monthly tokens reliably and cheaply.
  • Reduce costs and latency for 60k+ daily active users wherever possible.

Skills

Attention to detail
Data oriented
Strong fundamentals
Fast learner

Job description

Pax Historia is creating the future of interactive entertainment. You will own the system that enables our platform to send requests to 37+ AI providers, ensuring reliability and low latency for 30 billion+ tokens monthly.

This founding engineer role is in San Francisco, in-person, with meaningful equity and visa sponsorship. If you’re detail-oriented, data-driven, and a fast learner, this could be a great fit.

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