Staff Backend Software Engineer - AI Platform

Join Anthropic as a Staff Software Engineer on our Billing Platform team. In this critical role, you will design and implement robust billing solutions that scale with our growing user base. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance our billing capabilities and ensure seamless processing of transactions. Your expertise will be vital in building systems that are not only efficient but also secure and user-friendly.

Role overview Harvey seeks a Staff Software Engineer to strengthen the AI Platform team in San Francisco. The position focuses on designing and building advanced software solutions that extend the platform’s AI features. Collaboration is central to this role. The engineer will work closely with colleagues across different teams to deliver systems that are both scalable and efficient. Every project supports Harvey’s broader mission and long-term goals. What you will do Design and implement software components that enhance AI capabilities Work with teams throughout the company to deliver reliable, high-performance systems Contribute to platform improvements that support Harvey’s mission Location This position is based in San Francisco.

At ClickUp, we are not just creating software, we are crafting the future of work! In a landscape saturated with work complexities, we envisioned a better solution. This vision led to the development of the first genuinely integrated AI workspace, seamlessly combining tasks, documents, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all enhanced by context-sensitive AI. This empowers millions of teams to break down barriers, reclaim their time, and elevate productivity to new heights. Here at ClickUp, you will have the chance to learn, leverage, and innovate with AI in ways that will not only transform our product but also redefine the future of work itself. Join us in being part of a daring, innovative team that is reshaping possibilities! Role Overview:We are in search of a highly talented and experienced Staff AI Engineer – AI Platform to become a vital member of our ClickUp Engineering team. In this pivotal role, you will significantly contribute to the development of our core AI platform and directly utilize large language models (LLMs) to implement intelligent features across ClickUp. Your focus will be on back-end systems that facilitate scalable, dependable, and secure AI-driven capabilities, while also engaging hands-on with LLMs to address real user challenges and propel product innovation.Key Responsibilities:Design, architect, and implement scalable AI platform services to support the deployment, orchestration, and lifecycle management of LLMs and other AI models.Utilize LLMs and other AI technologies to build and enhance ClickUp’s intelligent features, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams to deliver impactful solutions.Develop and maintain robust APIs and backend systems that facilitate seamless integration of AI-enhanced features into ClickUp’s core platform.Create infrastructure for model serving, monitoring, logging, and automated evaluation to ensure high reliability and performance of AI services in production.Integrate with various LLM providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) and manage model selection, routing, and fallback strategies for optimal performance and cost-efficiency.Promote best practices in AI privacy, security, and compliance, including data anonymization and secure data handling.Optimize platform performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency, utilizing cloud-native technologies and distributed systems.Stay abreast of advancements in AI infrastructure, MLOps, and LLM applications, and proactively apply relevant innovations to ClickUp’s AI platform.Collaborate cross-functionally with teams to drive AI initiatives.

In a world where software is rapidly evolving, artificial intelligence is at the forefront of this transformation. At Scale AI, we recognize the immense potential of AI to significantly enhance human capabilities. Imagine having a personal tutor, coach, assistant, shopper, travel guide, and therapist available to you throughout your life. As global industries adapt to this revolutionary landscape, leading platform companies are racing to develop large language models (LLMs) at an unprecedented scale, while enterprises strive to integrate these technologies into their existing products. Ensuring these models are safe, aligned, and genuinely useful requires meticulous human evaluation and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) throughout their development cycle. This innovative approach has given ChatGPT a substantial advantage in the marketplace.At Scale, our offerings include the Generative AI Data Engine, SGP, Donovan, and other advanced tools that drive the most sophisticated LLMs and generative models globally. Our world-class RLHF, human data generation, model evaluation, safety, and alignment are crucial in shaping how humanity will interact with AI.The backbone of these products is our Platform Engineering team. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in defining and executing the architectural roadmap and implementation of essential platforms and software systems. You will provide a visionary approach while promoting adoption across our engineering organization for orchestration, data abstraction, data pipelines, identity and access management, and foundational cloud infrastructure. This role offers the opportunity to engage with cutting-edge AI advancements as Scale collaborates with enterprises, startups, governments, and leading tech companies.

Role overview MidiHealth seeks a Staff Software Engineer for its Platform Engineering team. This hybrid role is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and centers on building software that supports the platform’s growth, performance, and usability. What you will do Design and develop software solutions that address platform engineering challenges Collaborate with experienced engineers to improve reliability and expand platform features Contribute to efforts that boost performance and create a smooth user experience Location This position requires a hybrid schedule, including on-site work in the SF Bay Area.

ABOUT RETELL AIAt Retell AI, we are revolutionizing the call center experience using cutting-edge voice AI technology. In just 18 months since our inception, thousands of companies have leveraged our AI voice agents to streamline sales, support, and logistics operations that previously required extensive human teams. Supported by prominent investors such as Y Combinator and Alt Capital, we have grown from $5M to an impressive $36M ARR with a dedicated team of 20.Our ambitious vision for 2026 is to create a state-of-the-art customer experience platform where entire contact centers are driven by AI. Rather than relying on basic automation that necessitates constant human oversight, we are developing intelligent AI “workers” to function as frontline agents, QA analysts, and managers—constantly executing, monitoring, and enhancing customer interactions.As we rapidly expand, we seek passionate innovators eager to solve complex technical challenges, move swiftly, and make a meaningful impact at one of the fastest-growing voice AI startups. Join us in building the future!Ranked among the top 50 AI applications in the a16z list: https://tinyurl.com/5853dt2xRanked #4 on Brex's Fast-Growing Software Vendors of 2025: https://www.brex.com/journal/brex-benchmark-december-2025One of the top startups on the Leana I leaderboard: https://leanaileaderboard.com/THE ROLEWe are in search of a Principal/Staff Engineer to spearhead the technical direction of our core platform. This is an individual contributor role designed for someone who excels in uncertainty, acts swiftly, and elevates the standards of those around them.You will engage with various systems, infrastructure, and product surfaces while collaborating closely with engineering teams, product managers, and leadership to scale successful initiatives and innovate for the future.This role is not about merely addressing tickets; you will identify challenges, engineer solutions, and deliver impactful results.KEY RESPONSIBILITIESLead the design and evolution of our core platform and systems architecture.Oversee complex technical projects from inception to production.Make strategic technical decisions that optimize for speed, reliability, and scalability.Collaborate across teams to facilitate knowledge sharing and best practices.

Join Databricks as a Staff Backend Software Engineer on our cutting-edge AI Platform team. We are on a mission to simplify data and AI for enterprises worldwide. In this role, you will be pivotal in developing robust backend systems that support our AI initiatives, driving innovation and efficiency.As a member of our dynamic team, you will work with the latest technologies and methodologies to create scalable solutions that meet the needs of our clients. Your expertise will help shape the future of our AI Platform, delivering exceptional user experiences and insights.

About AnthropicAt Anthropic, we are dedicated to developing AI systems that are not only safe but also interpretable and steerable. Our mission is to ensure that AI serves the best interests of our users and society at large. Our rapidly growing team comprises passionate researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders, all collaborating to create beneficial AI technologies.About the Role:We are seeking skilled software engineers to join our Platform team. This team is responsible for building the essential foundations that enhance product development across Anthropic. We manage the infrastructure and systems that teams rely on for reliable and scalable deployment to both internal users and hundreds of thousands of external clients worldwide.In this role, you will independently define and scope complex, multi-month projects, fostering cross-organizational alignment in ambiguous problem areas. Your architectural decisions will significantly influence the way Anthropic develops and scales its products. You will collaborate closely with research teams to transform cutting-edge capabilities into market-ready solutions, ensuring a lasting impact on our platforms that serve both internal and external engineering teams.Multiple teams are actively hiring, and team assignments will be determined post-interview based on your skills, interests, and the needs of the organization. This flexible approach helps us align talented engineers with backend product initiatives where they can make the most significant impact and experience growth.Your Responsibilities:Platform Acceleration: You will enhance developer productivity for product engineers at Anthropic. This includes architecting and optimizing critical development infrastructure that fuels our AI product development, encompassing development environments, observability, and CI/CD pipelines. You will work closely with product teams to understand their workflows and eliminate friction points, resulting in a profound multiplier effect across the product organization, thus accelerating our mission.Service Infrastructure: You will build and maintain the core infrastructure that supports Anthropic's engineering efforts, ranging from service mesh and observability systems to deployment pipelines and shared libraries. Your contributions will empower product teams to construct and operate reliable services at scale, positioning you as a critical force multiplier within the company.Multicloud: You will develop and sustain the infrastructure that allows Anthropic to function seamlessly across various cloud providers, focusing on cloud-agnostic solutions that enhance our operational efficiency.

Join our innovative team at Databricks as a Staff Backend Software Engineer focusing on our cutting-edge AI Platform. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing backend systems that empower data scientists and engineers to build AI applications efficiently.As a key contributor, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions that enhance our platform's capabilities. Your expertise will drive the development of robust features that support machine learning workflows and big data processing.

Join Databricks as a Staff Backend Software Engineer for our cutting-edge AI Platform. In this pivotal role, you will design and implement robust backend systems that power innovative AI solutions. Collaborate with a talented team to drive impactful projects and shape the future of data and AI.

About UsAt Twelve Labs, we are at the forefront of developing innovative multimodal foundation models capable of understanding videos in a human-like manner. Our state-of-the-art models are setting new benchmarks in video-language modeling, allowing for more intuitive interactions and transformative media analysis.With an impressive $107 million in Seed and Series A funding, we have garnered support from leading venture capital firms like NVIDIA’s NVentures, NEA, Radical Ventures, and Index Ventures, as well as esteemed AI pioneers such as Fei-Fei Li, Silvio Savarese, and Alexandr Wang. Our headquarters are in San Francisco, complemented by a strong presence in APAC, particularly in Seoul, highlighting our commitment to global innovation.We embrace the individuality of each team member’s journey. The diversity of our cultural, educational, and experiential backgrounds fuels our drive to challenge the norm. We seek passionate individuals eager to contribute to our mission and make a significant impact as we redefine the landscape of technology. Join us in revolutionizing video comprehension and multimodal AI.Role OverviewAs a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will take charge of the infrastructure and integration layer that ensures Twelve Labs models are seamlessly accessible on partner platforms. Your responsibilities will encompass everything beyond the models, including packaging, validating, deploying model containers, designing API surfaces for various platforms, routing requests, and maintaining production reliability across diverse cloud environments.You will collaborate closely with our Science, Product, and ML Engineering teams to align model and product roadmaps for successful platform integrations. Your expertise in external model orchestration will be pivotal; you will need to comprehend model component functionalities to make informed integration decisions, although model optimization will not be part of your role. Your contributions will significantly enhance our capacity to reliably deliver new model versions and features to users across all platforms.Willingness to travel up to 10% annually for conferences, off-site meetings, and other business-related events is expected. Participation in on-site interviews and/or in-person onboarding processes may also be required.

Join Discord, a platform cherished by over 200 million users monthly, where gaming is at the heart of our community. With more than 90% of our users engaging in games, they collectively spend 1.5 billion hours enjoying thousands of unique titles on Discord every month. Our commitment is to enhance the gaming experience by facilitating enjoyable interactions before, during, and after gameplay.At Discord, we empower individuals to connect within diverse communities, and our users trust us to safeguard their conversations. Our Platform Security Engineering team is dedicated to fortifying the systems that underpin Discord, ensuring that the "secure way" becomes the "easy way." We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive this mission forward through your security expertise, software development skills, and operational excellence. In this technical leadership role, you will identify and pursue impactful opportunities to mitigate security risks across our Engineering teams. You will design and implement user-friendly "paved paths" for managing identities, deploying code, configuring cloud infrastructure, and operating services effectively.If you are a security engineer with a profound curiosity, keen on tackling technically and socially complex projects, and motivated to enhance security and privacy at Discord, we encourage you to explore this opportunity further!

Join the Nooks.ai Team!Nooks.ai is at the forefront of transforming sales with our AI Sales Assistant Platform (ASAP). Our innovative technology efficiently automates routine tasks, empowering sales representatives to concentrate on building meaningful customer relationships and driving sales growth. Having assisted thousands of sales professionals in exceeding their targets, we have saved clients countless hours and generated substantial revenue streams. Nooks is trusted by leading sales teams from renowned companies such as Hubspot, Rippling, Toast, and many others.Our dynamic team has successfully raised over $70 million from top-tier venture capitalists, including Kleiner Perkins, which marked its first investment in sales technology in over a decade. In the past two years, we have quadrupled our annual recurring revenue (ARR) and are poised to triple it again this year. Discover more about us at Nooks.ai.About the Role:We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to take ownership of our core platform during this exciting period of hypergrowth. You will have the opportunity to lay the groundwork for upcoming projects over the next 2-3 years, with autonomy to lead and innovate in the development process, including substantial 0-1 work.Impact of the Team:Our engineering team is pivotal to our success, achieving significant revenue growth year over year while ensuring our systems are scalable and efficiently architected to meet increasing demand. Platform engineers play a critical role in maintaining balance, enabling our product engineering teams to consistently deliver sought-after features.

About Us:Lunar is an innovative technology company operating in stealth mode, dedicated to creating a groundbreaking software platform for health systems. Our mission is to transform healthcare through advanced, AI-driven software that empowers every hospital to provide exceptional patient care. Our platform serves as the foundational backbone of modern health systems, revolutionizing clinical and operational workflows on a large scale with the world’s first AI-native hospital information system.This next-generation platform represents a comprehensive overhaul of the information infrastructure that supports health systems, encompassing all roles—from doctors and nurses to pharmacists, lab technicians, coders, billers, supply chain personnel, and even patients. We view our mission as the moon landing of healthcare—an extraordinary and ambitious endeavor that many deem impossible.Supported by leading venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, we are committed to the effectiveness of a small, high-performance team of seasoned professionals who operate at the peak of their abilities. We seek individuals who are driven, inquisitive, demonstrate sound judgement, and are passionate about delivering the best work of their careers.Our systems are built on Elixir, which we have adopted for its fault tolerance, concurrency, and scalability—crucial features for managing real-time patient data in critical environments such as Emergency Departments, ICUs, and Operating Rooms.We are in search of a Staff Software Engineer who is eager to address some of the most complex technical challenges in healthcare, joining a small, agile, and mission-driven team. If you are dedicated to writing clean, robust code and are excited about reimagining the software infrastructure of contemporary hospitals, we would love to connect with you.Technical Challenges You May Encounter in Your First 6 Months:Designing Modern Cloud Architecture: Build a cloud-native platform from the ground up without any legacy systems to complicate the process, utilizing Elixir as the foundation.Creating an Advanced Access Control System: Develop a modern access control system featuring fine-grained permissions that respect clinical data structures and patient data ownership while facilitating population-level insights for improved public health outcomes.Ensuring 24/7 Hospital Uptime: Engineer and deploy infrastructure capable of supporting rolling deployments, failover protocols, and continuous service availability.

About AbridgeFounded in 2018, Abridge is dedicated to enhancing understanding in healthcare through our innovative AI-powered platform. We specialize in transforming medical conversations into structured clinical notes in real-time, enabling clinicians to prioritize patient care. Our enterprise-grade technology seamlessly integrates with electronic medical records (EMRs) to ensure accuracy and trust in AI-generated summaries.As pioneers in generative AI for healthcare, we are setting the industry benchmarks for responsible AI deployment across health systems. Our diverse team consists of practicing MDs, AI scientists, PhDs, creatives, technologists, and engineers united in their mission to empower patients and make healthcare more comprehensible. We have offices located in San Francisco's Mission District, New York's SoHo neighborhood, and East Liberty in Pittsburgh.The RoleJoin us as an AI Platform Engineer, where your work will significantly impact the healthcare sector. You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of researchers, clinical scientists, and product engineers to design and develop the runtime, orchestration engine, and evaluation platform necessary for agentic orchestration and LLM-driven workflows.What You’ll DoCreate GenAI systems that transform LLMs into composable, reliable tools, utilizing retrieval, tool use, agentic reasoning, and structured outputs.Develop a highly reliable and scalable agent runtime that includes orchestration, shared state and memory, tool-calling interfaces, and scheduling focused on cost, latency, and quality.Build secure, sandboxed environments for agent actions and code, optimizing for cold start, isolation, and observability.Deliver unified interfaces for multiple model sizes and providers; integrate with open tool ecosystems such as MCP-style connectors.Create an evaluation platform for both online and offline assessments, A/B testing, safety checks, and regression gates that enhance agent reliability over time.Collaborate with Research to bring new agent capabilities from prototype to production.What You’ll BringDemonstrated experience in building agent applications with tool-calling, context engineering, and related technologies.Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.Familiarity with generative AI technologies and their applications in healthcare.

With support from prominent Silicon Valley investors, Peregrine Technologies empowers public safety organizations, state and local governments, federal agencies, and private sector entities to tackle societal challenges with unparalleled speed and precision. Our AI-driven platform transforms isolated and disparate data into actionable intelligence, rapidly presenting critical information that enables improved decision-making and outcomes. Currently, Peregrine serves hundreds of clients across over 30 states and two countries, impacting more than 125 million individuals, as we broaden our reach into enterprise markets and international territories.TeamOur engineering team is deeply committed to the idea that empathy enhances our solutions. Understanding how users interact with our products is fundamental to our approach. Engineers have the unique opportunity to collaborate closely with our onsite team to grasp the diverse use cases that Peregrine addresses.We cherish both ownership and teamwork; you will be fully accountable for significant features while working hand-in-hand with fellow engineers to ensure successful delivery. We believe that humility and empathy are critical for crafting effective solutions, and you will engage directly with our deployment team and users as we refine our offerings to meet their needs. Ingenuity and perseverance are vital in realizing our vision.RoleAs part of our new AI team, you will play a key role in delivering unique value to our clients. This team is responsible for designing powerful and intuitive user experiences powered by generative AI. You will explore entirely new interaction methods for users—whether through natural language commands or by enabling AI agents to manage complex tasks on their behalf. Your contributions will shape impactful AI-driven features that assist customers in solving real-world challenges more efficiently.Your work will encompass a variety of intricate challenges, including scaling our platform to process terabytes of data from multiple sources, efficiently querying and alerting users about this data in real-time, and optimizing search algorithms for swift result delivery.While our technology stack is continuously evolving, it is built on a foundation that includes Python, Django, Celery, Airflow, and Kafka for the backend; React, Redux, and Mapbox for the frontend; PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch for data storage; machine learning models hosted in Bedrock and Sagemaker; and utilizing AWS, Pulumi, Terraform, and Kubernetes for our infrastructure.

Quizlet, Inc. supports millions of learners each month by combining cognitive science with advanced machine learning. The platform serves two-thirds of U.S. high school students and half of college students, powering over 2 billion learning interactions monthly. Quizlet’s mission centers on making education more personal and effective for students, professionals, and lifelong learners. The AI & Data Platform team underpins Quizlet’s applied AI initiatives. This group develops and maintains the systems behind personalization, recommendations, the AI Coach, content generation, and emerging agentic experiences. The team oversees the full machine learning model lifecycle: data and feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, and inference. Reliability, speed, security, and observability guide their work. Their approach blends managed Google Cloud services, top vendor tools, open-source solutions, and custom internal abstractions to achieve efficient, reliable outcomes. Role overview The Senior Staff Engineer, AI Platform, is a senior individual contributor who defines the technical direction for Quizlet’s next generation of machine learning and large language model infrastructure. This hands-on role involves architecting core platform systems, steering build-versus-buy decisions, and collaborating with teams across Applied AI, Data Science, Product Engineering, and Infrastructure. The position sets standards for how models and LLM-driven systems are trained, evaluated, deployed, and governed at scale. This role is well suited to an engineer who excels at the senior-staff level in large organizations but values the autonomy and impact of a smaller, cloud-native setting. The technology stack includes Google Cloud, Kubernetes and GKE, distributed training, MLflow workflows, data and feature platforms, online and asynchronous inference, and the evaluation and observability tools needed to operate predictive ML and LLM systems at scale. Work location and schedule This is an onsite position based in San Francisco, CA. Team members are expected in the office at least three days a week: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, to foster collaboration.

fractional-ai is looking for a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to join the San Francisco office. This position centers on building advanced AI solutions with a team that values both technical depth and collaboration. Role overview This role focuses on designing and developing AI-driven systems. The work involves solving technical challenges and contributing to projects that push the boundaries of what AI can achieve. Collaboration with other engineers and stakeholders is a key part of daily responsibilities. Who will thrive Experienced engineers with a strong background in software development Those who enjoy working on complex technical problems Individuals who value teamwork and open communication Location This position is based in the San Francisco office.

About UsXOXO is an innovative research lab dedicated to crafting intelligent interfaces that enhance everyday life. Our stealth team, composed of passionate engineers, designers, and researchers, is focused on solving unique challenges that go beyond the workplace.With recent advancements in infrastructure, architecture, and model layers, we are actively seeking skilled builders to create the application layer that will actualize our visionary concepts.About the RoleWe are on the lookout for a proficient iOS engineer to lead the development of XOXO’s consumer app, featuring a pioneering interface for intelligence. This position calls for a robust engineer capable of managing the entire mobile surface area, from architecture and performance to refining a visually appealing design system that ensures intentional user interactions.A specific background is not mandatory; what truly matters is your passion for ownership: you take charge, work swiftly without compromising quality, and aspire to create a mobile product that redefines craftsmanship and performance standards.What You’ll DoDesign and launch the initial versions of our React Native app, transitioning it from concept to production.Convert a visually rich design system into reusable components, motions, and interaction patterns with seamless performance.Develop new product interfaces that seamlessly integrate modern AI/ML capabilities in a mobile-friendly manner.Enhance app performance, focusing on rendering, startup, memory consumption, battery usage, and perceived speed.Establish high standards for mobile engineering quality (including testing, monitoring, and release management) while collaborating with various teams to ensure successful delivery.