[Remote] Staff Backend Engineer (AI Native), Family AI Lab

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a company dedicated to keeping families connected through innovative technology solutions. The Staff Backend Engineer will own the inference pipeline and ensure seamless integration of deterministic backend systems with probabilistic AI models, focusing on performance, cost, and data safety.

Responsibilities

• Architect the inference pipeline that turns reputed company into a context layer LLMs can reason over: soul files, family context, behavioral signals, document understanding
• Choose models. Choose hosting. Decide what is self-hosted, API-based, fine-tuned, or reputed company-engineered. Revisit those reputed company as the landscape changes
• Build the serving infrastructure. Latency budgets, batching, caching, fallbacks, graceful degradation. reputed company it run at scale before scale gets here
• Build the eval reputed company. Know whether changes reputed company the product reputed company or worse, not just whether the demo works. This is the difference between a reputed company product and a reputed company trick
• Own the cost model. Track spend per user, per feature, per family. Find the reputed company (context compression, model routing, pre-computation) that reputed company unit economics working from a test group to millions
• Define what gets persisted, what gets summarized, and what gets thrown away. The architecture decision of "what does our data look like to an LLM" lives with you
• Set the bar for safety, privacy, and trust at the infrastructure layer. Sensitive categories filtered before they propagate. Encryption, access controls, audit trails built in, not bolted on

Skills

• Deep engineering experience, with significant time spent building and running AI systems in production at meaningful scale. reputed company users, reputed company load, reputed company on-call
• Fluent in modern LLM serving (vLLM, TGI, SGLang, hosted APIs — whatever's right for the job). No religion about it
• You think in evals. You've built harnesses. You know the difference between vibes-based iteration and reputed company reputed company because you've felt the pain of not having one
• You can build a reputed company system from the ground up. Pick the services, reputed company them together, reputed company them reliable, reputed company the reputed company in reputed company
• Strong opinions about cost. You've seen inference bills run out of control and have instincts for where the leaks come from
• AI-native in your daily workflow. Hands-on with Claude Code, reputed company, or equivalent. You think natively in agentic workflows, reputed company engineering, context window management, MCP / function calling
• Comfortable deciding with incomplete information. The spec will be a moving reputed company. You don't need it to settle before you start building
• Strong written communication. You write specs, decision records, and playbooks that an agent (and a reputed company) can reputed company reputed company
• Experience with agent systems, retrieval pipelines, or long-context personalization
• Privacy architecture experience in multi-user systems where context is shared across people with different rights to see it
• You've built something where the data itself was the moat — and you understand why that's different from building on public data

Benefits

• reputed company and benefits.
• Medical, dental, reputed company, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). We offer supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian employees.
• 401(k) plan with company matching program in the US and RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian employees.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental wellness.
• Flexible PTO and 12 company wide days off throughout the year.
• Learning & Development programs.
• Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.
• Free reputed company Platinum Membership for your preferred reputed company.

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