Member of Technical Staff, Synthetic Data

TypeSafe AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary of $180k-$280k plus equity

100% covered health insurance

Daily lunch and dinner

Visa sponsorships

401K plans

Job summary

TypeSafe AI in San Francisco is looking for a skilled synthetic data engineer to support its models. You'll design production-grade AI systems, collaborate with product managers, and conduct rigorous analyses to optimize model performance.

We seek candidates with 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong coding abilities, and a passion for creating real-world impact. Join our close-knit team dedicated to excellence and transformative AI.

We offer a competitive salary of $180k-$280k, equity, and comprehensive benefits including health insurance and visa sponsorships.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering or equivalent expertise.
• Strong coding ability and product intuition.
• Attention to detail and a strong bar for quality.
• Ability to describe complex problems succinctly.

Responsibilities

• Design and build reliable, production-grade AI systems.
• Create high-leverage datasets and user interfaces.
• Run analyses to understand data impact on models.
• Develop evaluation frameworks for model reliability.
• Collaborate with product managers to meet real-world needs.
• Iterate and discover new techniques in AI product building.

Skills

Software engineering

Coding ability

Data analysis

Product intuition

LLM implementation

Tools

Python

TypeScript

Next.js

Tailwind CSS

Kubernetes

Job description

About the Role

Our synthetic data engineers research model intelligence. You will support the core training stack of our models with a combination of data science, creativity, and engineering skills. You’ll be part of the real ‘secret sauce’ of TypeSafe, figuring out how our models can provide production-ready reliability in the real world.

Responsibilities: On a day to day level, you might

• Design and build reliable, production-grade AI systems that integrate large language models and our proprietary models into real-world workflows

• Create high-leverage datasets, products, and user interfaces that unlock new capabilities and use cases on top of our model

• Run rigorous analyses and experiments to understand how data, training choices, and targeted interventions impact model behavior and performance

• Develop and own evaluation frameworks to measure quality, reliability, and emergent characteristics across model iterations

• Partner closely with product managers and customers to translate real-world needs into concrete model and system improvements

• Continuously iterate, learn, and co-discover new techniques for building exceptional, trustworthy AI product

Our tech stack is primarily Python. We also use TypeScript, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS for frontend, with Kubernetes for orchestration. We empower developers to use any tooling they find helpful for getting their job done, including Claude Code and Cursor.

We are looking for people who:

• Have 5+ years of professional software engineering, or equivalent professional expertise

• Have strong coding ability and product intuition

• Enjoy thinking beyond the code to how systems are used in the real world

• Maintain high attention to detail and a strong bar for quality

• Can describe complex problems succinctly and clearly

• Care deeply about our mission and are driven to translate it into real-world impact

• Thrive in ambiguous problem spaces and take satisfaction in finding creative solutions

• Have hands-on experience implementing LLMs and understand their capabilities and limitations

Life at TypeSafe

We’re a small, flat, close-knit team dedicated to real-world impact preparing the world for Transformative AI. Our team works fully in-person in our San Francisco office near Embarcadero station. We love what we do and care about our work a lot.

We strive for excellence and craftsmanship and won't stop until we get there. When the team wins, we all win, and we enjoy collaborating and inspiring each other to grow as a team and as individuals.

We also value emotional honesty, kindness, and bringing your whole self to work. We build machines; we don't try to be machines.

We want you to be able to do the most impactful work of your career at TypeSafe and help define our future as a company.

We provide

- Base salary of $180k-280k plus equity, based on leveling

- 100% covered health insurance

- Daily lunch and dinner

- Visa sponsorships

- 401K plans