
Software Engineer, Backend
Anara
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $150,000 - $200,000 per year
About the role
- Designing and building scalable infrastructure for AI-powered research tools.
- Collaborating closely with the rest of the engineering team on our RAG pipeline, continuously improving response quality, latency and robustness.
- Establishing best practices for prompt engineering and deployment of new models and workflows.
- Monitoring and optimizing system performance and costs, making pragmatic tradeoffs to keep us lean and moving fast.
- Owning the design and automation of eval pipelines to continuously measure, benchmark and improve AI agent quality and reliability.
Requirements
- You’ve worked on back end agent behaviors and have hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, and agent architectures.
- Have independently built and scaled a product to at least a few thousand users (e.g. a side project or open-source project).
- Have worked in a high-growth, fast-paced environment (ideally another startup) and can drive things forward with relatively little oversight.
Benefits
- premium healthcare (medical, dental, etc.)
- flexible working hours
- office space with a beautiful view of the San Francisco marina and Golden Gate bridge.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI-powered research toolsback end developmentLLMsRAGagent architecturesprompt engineeringsystem performance optimizationautomation of eval pipelinesbenchmarkingscalable infrastructure
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem-solvingindependenceadaptabilitydrivecommunicationtime managementcritical thinkinginitiativeattention to detail