Backend Engineer – Product / AI Applications

Vercept • Seattle, WA

103d • $150,000 - $250,000

About The Position

We're a high-energy, impact-driven team, with a long track record of academic excellence. Our team includes researchers whose work has shaped the field—earning best paper awards at top AI conferences and even ranking among the most cited scientists in history of science. We've built fundamental, transformative research that has redefined the community, and now, we're here to change the world—one breakthrough at a time. We’re looking for a Backend Engineer – Product / AI Applications who loves working at the intersection of advanced AI and real-world product experiences. Your focus will be on building AI-powered product features that leverage foundation models—from prompt engineering to productionizing agent workflows—so that complex model capabilities translate into intuitive, reliable user-facing experiences. This is your chance to bridge cutting-edge AI with practical applications at scale.

Requirements

• Strong experience in prompt engineering best practices across models
• Familiarity with engineering production AI systems using client/server architectures and relational databases
• Ability to build reliable, scalable services that connect AI models with user-facing products
• Comfort balancing rapid experimentation with engineering rigor in production systems

Nice To Haves

• Experience building AI agent applications and ability to adapt quickly to proprietary models.
• Knowledge of modern AI techniques and their pitfalls (e.g. RAG, prompt caching, context truncation, jailbreaking, CoT, etc).
• Exposure to observability, evaluation, or safety systems for AI applications
• Background in full-stack or frontend work to accelerate product development

Benefits

• $150K – $250K + Equity
• Health benefits
• 401(k) plan
• Meaningful equity

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level