AI Systems Engineer

GW423
  • $200,000-$250,000
  • San Francisco, CA
  • Permanent

About the job


AI Systems Engineer


đź§  The mission

This company is designing a new execution layer where:

  • Workloads are dynamically decomposed
  • Compute is allocated in real time
  • Performance is pushed to the physical limits of hardware

This is first-principles engineering applied to AI infrastructure.


🚀 The role

You’ll be operating at the boundary of:

  • Distributed systems
  • High-performance compute
  • Real-world AI deployment


You’ll:

  • Design and build core systems from zero → production
  • Solve latency, throughput, and memory constraints at scale
  • Work directly on how inference actually executes
  • Make decisions that define the architecture of the company


⚙️ What you need

  • Exceptional backend / systems fundamentals
  • Experience with distributed systems or performance-critical infrastructure
  • Comfort operating in high ambiguity, low structure
  • A bias toward building over discussing
  • Bonus (not required):
  • AI/ML systems, compilers, runtimes, or GPU optimisation


🌍 The setup

  • Small, high-calibre team
  • Deep technical focus — no fluff, no layers
  • Early enough that your work becomes foundational
  • Building something that, if successful, every AI company will need


Anna Heneghan Senior ML Research & Engineering Recruiter

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