Backend Engineer AI (Agent Systems

Backend Engineer AI (Agent Systems) - San Francisco (Remote) - Start-up Equity

A long-standing client is expanding into the US and Europe. Starting with several hires in the US. This will involve working on a proactive AI assistant rather than a traditional chatbot, with highly reliable AI capable of completing multi-step tasks with minimal user prompting.

• Build and operate backend systems that serve AI-powered features in production.
• Design inference pipelines, orchestration layers, and service boundaries around models.
• Own production concerns: monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response.
• Optimize latency and throughput across inference, caching, batching, and streaming.

• Strong backend engineering fundamentals in production environments.
• Experience running high-throughput, low-latency services.
• Familiarity with AI inference patterns (LLMs, embeddings, multimodal).
• Comfortable debugging distributed systems under load.
• Bias toward shipping and learning from production behavior.
• Python, Node Js, Pytorch, OpenAI / Anthropic / open-source LLMs, SQl & noSQL, Kubernetes, Docker

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