Build and scale platform components to handle our partner’s rapid growth
Design and architect platform components that are composable and deliver value for a variety of use cases
Collaborate closely with product teams to understand their needs and build platform capabilities that accelerate their feature delivery
Make build vs buy decisions, evaluating and implementing 3rd party solutions when most impactful
Set technical direction and vision for various product and platform features
Partner with research to quickly prototype and launch new capabilities based on research breakthroughs

Have 6+ years of practical experience as a backend or platform engineer building scalable distributed systems
Have strong coding skills and experience with service-oriented architectures
Have worked in early start-up or otherwise fast moving, rapidly evolving environments, and have ideally built products from 0 to 1
Take full ownership of your work, navigate ambiguity effectively, and proactively overcome obstacles to deliver results
Are comfortable diving into any part of the system, whether it's infrastructure, services, or product frontends, to deliver effective solutions
Enjoy working with a fast-paced team tackling cutting-edge problems in AI safety and conversational AI
Take a product-focused approach and care about building solutions that are robust, scalable, and easy to use
Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)
Have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience.
Have worked with agentic systems, RAG techniques, and LangGraph (strong candidates may also)
Have worked with NLP and ML models and understand their capabilities and limitations (strong candidates may also)
Have experience with REST APIs (strong candidates may also)
Have experience with Svelte and Frontend frameworks (strong candidates may also)

Platform Software Engineer

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