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Principal Full Stack Engineer

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $200,000–$200,000🗓 2026-03-30 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building autonomous AI agents that run full research cycles, ingesting papers, forming hypotheses, and executing experiments for scientific teams.

Role type

Principal Full Stack Engineer (Backend-heavy)

Builds

Scalable APIs, data pipelines, and platform architecture for long-running AI workloads

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Scientific Discovery

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

System design for distributed systems, scalable API development, data pipeline engineering, cloud infrastructure management, containerization, CI/CD implementation

Preferred skills

Experience with heavy data and compute demands, architectural trade-off decision making

Technologies

Python, Node, FastAPI, REST, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Designing backend services for agent execution, building data pipelines for scientific workflows, managing cloud infrastructure and containerization, ensuring system reliability under continuous load

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC

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