Member of Technical Staff, Tech Lead Applied AI Backend
Core
Designing and building reliable, high-throughput backend systems and data pipelines that turn human expertise into training data for frontier AI models.
Role type
Senior IC Tech Lead (Backend Systems)
Builds
Production backend services, data orchestration pipelines, and infrastructure for AI training data generation.
Domain
AI Infrastructure / Backend Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Backend architecture, distributed systems, data orchestration, API design, database management, container orchestration, infrastructure as code, production debugging, technical mentorship
Preferred skills
LLM-backed service integration, AI infrastructure providers (Modal, Fireworks, Baseten)
Technologies
Terraform, Kubernetes, Airflow, Temporal, Dagster, gRPC, REST, GraphQL
Responsibilities
Own the architecture of the Applied AI backend domain including core services and pipeline execution layers; build and tune high-throughput data pipelines with failure recovery; set technical direction and conduct design reviews; mentor senior engineers; manage infrastructure at scale using IaC; participate in on-call and debug production incidents.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities
