AI Systems Engineer
GW423
Posted: 16/04/2026
- $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