The posting
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join an AI-grounding team as a founding backend engineer, building the infrastructure and systems that bring AI models into production. Your work will support secure, dependable AI applications for high-stakes public sector and public safety use cases.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design and deploy large language models, vision models, and other machine learning systems in production.
- Build resilient, secure distributed systems across multiple programming languages and cloud infrastructure providers.
- Architect retrieval-augmented generation pipelines for unstructured data, and extend them to structured data using query planning and semantic modeling.
- Evaluate and integrate emerging AI infrastructure, models, and techniques.
- Work autonomously to identify and solve technical challenges while moving quickly and maintaining strong security standards.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Backend engineering experience deploying LLMs, vision-language models, or other machine learning systems in real-world settings.
- Strong Python skills, experience with multiple programming languages, and familiarity with cloud platforms and infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience designing RAG systems and unstructured data pipelines; experience with agentic systems is a plus.
- Curiosity about advances in AI, a bias toward action, and comfort working in a fast-paced environment.
- Interest in applying technology to public sector needs, government capability, and public safety.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Salary range: $135,000 to $215,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
LOCATION
Hybrid work arrangement, with the primary location in New York City, New York.



