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Open nowPosted 386 days ago

Forward Engineer

Metis, Inc.5 open roles

Pay
$150,000 – $450,000 a year
Where
San Francisco, California
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About the Role

As a Forward Engineer at Metis, you’ll be part of a tight-knit, product-driven team leveraging our training platform to deliver outcomes for customers. You’ll work across the stack, from low-level systems to user-facing features, to deliver resilient, high-performance products that power mission-critical AI workflows. You’ll own projects end-to-end, collaborate deeply with platform, research, and customers to make pragmatic technical decisions that tie directly to customer outcomes.

We move fast, but we hold a very high bar for correctness, maintainability, and simplicity. You’ll be expected to write production-grade code, reason holistically about systems, and push the boundaries of what’s possible in applied AI engineering.

What You'll Do

  • Translate research prototypes into production systems that enterprises and labs can reliably adopt
  • Collaborate with platform, product and research teams to ship features under real customer constraints
  • Write clean, testable code in modern languages while leveraging AI tools to accelerate development
  • Debug complex systems, identify bottlenecks, and drive performance, security, and reliability improvements

Requirements

  • Strong fundamentals in at least one modern language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.)
  • Experience with backend systems, distributed computing, or high-volume services
  • Strong communication abilities with a high bar for customer interaction
  • Ability to turn ambiguous product asks into simple, pragmatic solutions
  • Familiarity with system design, software engineering best practices, and debugging in production environments
  • Comfortable working across the stack — from APIs and orchestration to user-facing surfaces

Compensation & Benefits

  • Base: $150,000–$450,000
  • Significant Equity
  • Full medical, dental, and vision
  • Wellness & L&D stipend
  • Equinox membership
  • Breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided (Unlimited Doordash)
  • $25,000 housing stipend

About Metis

Metis helps enterprises and labs build the most reliable AI agents by leveraging post-training. Our platform enables the creation, improvement, and deployment of the most capable frontier agents designed for rigorous, real-world workflows.

Momentum

  • 0 → six-figure monthly revenue in the last six weeks
  • Working with several Fortune 500 enterprises & frontier AI labs
  • Growing 150%+ MoM

Backed by

Y Combinator, CRV, and executives from OpenAI, Google, Mercor, NVIDIA, and others.

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