Platform & Applied AI Engineer — Founding Team

AfterQuery; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) with Employer Match

Daily UberEats Stipend

Monthly Wellness Stipend

Job summary

AfterQuery, an applied research lab in San Francisco, seeks a core engineer to build data infrastructure powering frontier model development. You will own end-to-end projects as one of our first hires, delivering measurable impact quickly.

You’ll design scalable data pipelines, work across web (Next.js) and Python stacks, and set best practices to enable future growth. Competitive salary and meaningful equity are offered.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in JavaScript (Next.js) and Python with full-stack web apps.
• Experience with serverless architecture and cloud functions (GCP/AWS).
• Hands-on with Redis, Elasticsearch, and messaging queues for scalable pipelines.
• Production deployment experience; founder experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale data pipelines for high throughput.
• Architect data pipelines with low latency and high throughput.
• Collaborate with the founding team to define product strategy and ship features.
• Establish engineering best practices and enable future team growth.

Skills

Next.js

Python

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

Redis

Elasticsearch

Kafka/RabbitMQ

Full-stack dev

Production experience

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

AfterQuery, an applied research lab in San Francisco, seeks a core engineer to build data infrastructure powering frontier model development. You will own end-to-end projects as one of our first hires, delivering measurable impact quickly.

You’ll design scalable data pipelines, work across web (Next.js) and Python stacks, and set best practices to enable future growth. Competitive salary and meaningful equity are offered.