Senior Backend Engineer, AI Inference Platform

Together AI

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 160,000 - 250,000

Full time

14 days+

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Competitive compensation
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Health insurance

Job summary

Together AI is searching for a skilled engineer to join their team, focusing on building and optimizing a large-scale inference platform. This role involves developing low-latency systems and collaborating with research teams to deploy advanced AI models. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in distributed systems and a strong programming background in languages such as Rust, Go, Python, or TypeScript. The position offers a competitive salary of $160,000 to $250,000 plus equity and benefits.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in building large-scale, fault-tolerant systems.
  • Strong background in designing efficient, scalable systems.
  • Excellent understanding of multi-threading and memory management.

Responsibilities

  • Build and optimize global and local request routing.
  • Develop auto-scaling systems to allocate resources.
  • Design systems for multi-tenant traffic shaping.

Skills

Building large-scale distributed systems
API microservices
Low-level OS concepts
Programming in Rust
Programming in Go
Programming in Python
Programming in TypeScript
Kubernetes
GPU software stacks
HPC technologies

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Job description

Together AI is searching for a skilled engineer to join their team, focusing on building and optimizing a large-scale inference platform. This role involves developing low-latency systems and collaborating with research teams to deploy advanced AI models. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in distributed systems and a strong programming background in languages such as Rust, Go, Python, or TypeScript. The position offers a competitive salary of $160,000 to $250,000 plus equity and benefits.
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