Member of Technical Staff, AI

Parallel; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech organization is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to design and implement high-performance systems for AI-driven applications. You will work on core engineering challenges, collaborating with teams to enhance data retrieval and API performance. This role offers a chance to shape the future of AI interactions on the web in a small, technical team environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-performance systems.
• Contribute to evaluation pipelines.
• Build retrieval engines and improve API performance.

Job description

Overview

Parallel Web Systems is building the infrastructure for a new web—one designed to be used by AI, not just humans. As a Member of Technical Staff, you’ll work on core engineering challenges at the intersection of large-scale web data, retrieval systems, and AI-native applications. You’ll help develop the backend systems and APIs that allow AI agents to crawl, parse, and reason over the web with human-like fluency. This is not a narrow role; you’ll collaborate across research and product teams to ship foundational infrastructure that directly powers production use cases.

Responsibilities

Engineers at Parallel are hands-on builders who own their work end to end. You’ll be responsible for designing and implementing high-performance systems, contributing to evaluation pipelines, and moving between prototype and production environments with ease. Whether it's building a new retrieval engine, improving API performance, or shaping data quality strategies, your work will ship fast and have real-world impact. You’ll be joining a small, exceptionally technical team where your contributions will shape the trajectory of the company and the future of how AI interacts with the web.