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Software Engineer, Frontier Data Products

San Francisco or NYC💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-10 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and build production backend systems and orchestration primitives for multi-stage workflows that coordinate automated processing, model inference, and expert human review.

Role type

Senior backend systems engineer (distributed state machines)

Builds

Long-running, stateful orchestration systems for frontier AI data workflows

Domain

AI infrastructure / Distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed systems design, async workflows, idempotency, retries, long-running jobs, system design, service boundaries, Python, AWS, Postgres

Preferred skills

Temporal or similar workflow engines

Technologies

Python, AWS, Postgres, Temporal

Responsibilities

Design services and state models for multi-stage workflows, build orchestration primitives for failure recovery, integrate model inference into production workflows, build APIs and tooling for operations teams, own reliability and observability for stateful workflows

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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