Software Engineer – Platform / Applied AI
Transparent Search Group•San Francisco, CA
•Onsite
About The Position
As a core Platform / Applied AI Engineer, you'll be critical in creating data infrastructure that will shape the future development of frontier models. You will be one of the first hires with a lot of responsibility, owning entire projects end-to-end so you can see your impact instantly. You'll help lay the groundwork for future team growth.
Requirements
- Must come from a top university (US/Canadian/UK), top quant firm, or have founding engineer experience
- Strong coding fundamentals in Node.js / TypeScript, Python and/or Go
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability challenges, and system design
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP/AWS), Kubernetes, APIs, NoSQL databases
- Ability to reason about trade-offs and balance speed vs. reliability
- Strong communication skills; bias toward ownership, curiosity, and simple solutions to complex problems
Nice To Haves
- Experience with RL environments, agentic systems, or human-in-the-loop workflows
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable data infrastructure for frontier AI model training and evaluation
- Build full-stack web applications using JavaScript (Next.js) and Python
- Implement serverless architecture and cloud functions for heavy data processing (GCP/AWS)
- Build storage, caching, and search systems: Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka/RabbitMQ
- Contribute to AI research, LLM evaluation, and human-in-the-loop systems
- Ship ideas to production with full ownership
Benefits
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
- Daily lunch and dinner covered
- Free gym membership
- Health insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
