Software Engineer - Core Platform

Core Platform @ Elorian; Palo Alto (CA); In loco; USD 250.000 - 450.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Core Platform @ Elorian is seeking a software engineer to design, optimize, and scale backend systems powering our multimodal AI models. You will own distributed services, APIs, and data pipelines, ensuring reliability, low latency, and cost efficiency for researchers and applications.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to translate visual AI capabilities into high-performance, developer-facing systems and APIs, focusing on scalability and seamless deployment at scale.

Competenze

• 3+ years in distributed production backend systems.
• Experience with large-scale data architectures.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python.
• Familiarity with concurrency and fault tolerance at scale.

Mansioni

• Architect and own core distributed backend services, APIs, and data pipelines.
• Solve scale, concurrency, and reliability challenges in large clusters.
• Build event-driven streaming frameworks and state management systems.
• Lead fault tolerance, high availability, and auto-scaling design.
• Collaborate with research/engineering teams to translate AI capabilities into systems.

Conoscenze

Distributed backend systems

C++

Python

High concurrency

Event-driven architectures

Strumenti

Streaming frameworks

Task queues

Distributed scheduling

APIs

Descrizione del lavoro

ABOUT US

We are a well-funded, early-stage AI lab focused on building the next generation of frontier multimodal AI models. Founded by former DeepMind researchers, including Andrew Dai, who was previously a leader on Gemini. Our team currently consists of 20 world-class scientists and engineers. We recently raised $55M in seed funding from Striker Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Altimeter Capital, and NVIDIA. We are tackling some of the hardest problems in artificial intelligence, and we are growing fast.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We're looking for a software engineer to design, optimize, and scale the core systems that serve our foundational visual reasoning models. Your work will make inference, backend services, and distributed execution faster, more cost-effective, and highly reliable, so our researchers can focus on advancing multimodal model reasoning capabilities rather than managing backend bottlenecks. Our focus is on performant, efficient systems for frontier visual intelligence - both to power real-world, high-throughput applications and to accelerate fundamental research. This role owns the backend and systems software that ensures every deployment, distributed evaluation, and execution pipeline runs seamlessly at scale for our visual foundation models.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Architect and own the core distributed backend services, APIs, and data processing pipelines that power our visual reasoning model ecosystem
• Solve fundamental scale, concurrency, and reliability challenges across large-scale distributed clusters to achieve maximum throughput and sub-second latency
• Build event-driven streaming frameworks, distributed task scheduling, and state management systems designed for high-volume multimodal data workloads
• Lead the technical design for fault tolerance, high availability, and auto-scaling across our entire backend service topology
• Partner closely with research and engineering teams to translate cutting-edge visual AI capabilities into high-performance, developer-facing systems and APIs

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• 3+ years of software engineering experience building, scaling, and maintaining high-impact distributed production backend systems handling massive data volumes and high-throughput traffic
• Deep understanding of distributed systems principles, high concurrency, event-driven architectures, and fault-tolerant design at scale for production systems
• Proven track record of managing and optimizing large-volume data architectures, including distributed task queues, streaming pipelines, and low-latency communication frameworks.
• Strong proficiency in modern systems/backend languages such as C++ and Python
• Track record of shipping mission-critical backend features, eliminating system bottlenecks under heavy load, and operating high-throughput production systems
• Programming languages: C++, Python

NICE TO HAVE

• Direct experience working inside an AI frontier lab, AI research institute, or core platform engineering team supporting foundation model development and production
• Practical experience building production backend systems or data pipelines for multimodal models.
• Programming languages: Rust, Pytorch

LOGISTICS

• Location: Palo Alto, CA (on-site)
• Type: Full-time
• Compensation: $250k - $450k + meaningful equity stake + full health/wellness benefits