Distributed Systems Jobs

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a Staff Technical Lead for Customer Experience Intelligence (CXI) to architect and deliver an AI-native vertical workflow platform. This platform will orchestrate AI agents, humans, and enterprise tools into end-to-end operational workflows, initially focusing on customer support and expanding to other domains like IT, Security, Legal, and Marketing. The role involves driving rapid backend development with a focus on quality, safety, and reliability, designing state-machine and agentic workflows, and implementing robust observability and rollback mechanisms for AI-driven decisions. The Technical Lead will also act as a liaison between CXI, Product, Platform Engineering, and business stakeholders, while mentoring engineers and subject matter experts.

$190k - $261k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Backend Software Engineer for its Customer Experience Intelligence (CXI) team. This role will involve architecting and delivering Databricks' AI-native vertical workflow platform, which orchestrates AI agents, humans, and enterprise tools into end-to-end operational workflows. The platform is initially focused on customer support but is designed to expand into other domains like IT, Security, Legal, and Marketing, with a roadmap for broader productization. You will contribute to the technical vision, core infrastructure, and backend architecture for an enterprise agentic framework, ensuring reliability, scalability, and enterprise-grade observability for AI-driven systems.

$164k - $226k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to architect and deliver the company's AI-native vertical workflow platform. This role involves building intelligent systems that orchestrate AI agents, humans, and enterprise tools into end-to-end operational workflows, starting with customer support and expanding to other domains like IT, Security, Legal, and Marketing. The goal is to create a scalable, reliable, and observable platform for AI-driven business decisions.

$164k - $226k

Databricks

At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data and AI teams to solve the world's toughest problems. We build and run the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform. As part of the AI Platform team, you'll build the substrate that powers everything from data apps, AI agents, model training, model serving, and vector search. You'll be joining a high-agency, high-visibility team operating at the frontier of AI infrastructure with deep ties to research, product, and real-world enterprise use cases. Databricks Mosaic AI is one of our fastest-growing businesses helping thousands of our customers democratize AI within their organizations. We’re building the infrastructure that powers the next generation of AI.

$165k - $220k

Databricks

As a Senior Applied ML Engineer on the Applied AI team, you will leverage machine learning, scheduling, and optimization algorithms to enhance the efficiency and performance of Databricks' infrastructure. Your responsibilities will encompass the full technology stack, from cluster management to query compilation, tackling complex, high-impact engineering challenges to deliver optimized and cost-effective workloads for customers. This role is crucial for accelerating serverless growth, building end-to-end ML4Sys solutions, shaping applied ML strategy, and driving the deployment of state-of-the-art models.

$166k - $210k

As a Research Scientist at Mercor, you will work at the intersection of research and engineering on frontier post-training. You will develop new training and evaluation methods, test them through rigorous experiments, and implement successful approaches at scale. Working with researchers, engineers, domain experts, and customers, you will investigate how data, rewards, environments, and optimization methods shape model behavior. Your work will influence frontier models, Mercor’s products, and the broader research community through releasing blogposts, technical reports, and papers.

$250k - $500k

Anthropic

Anthropic is at the forefront of AI research, dedicated to developing safe, ethical, and powerful artificial intelligence. Our mission is to ensure that transformative AI systems are aligned with human interests. We are seeking a Staff level Engineer to join our Pre-training team, responsible for developing the next generation of large language models. In this role, you will work at the intersection of cutting-edge research and practical engineering, contributing to the development of safe, steerable, and trustworthy AI systems.

$500k - $850k

Modal is building the next-generation infrastructure layer for AI, enabling companies to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale. Our platform provides instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, supporting category-defining customers. We are seeking a leader to own the direction and execution of our LLM inference platform, a critical component of our offering that delivers frontier performance with best-in-class elasticity and developer experience. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will split your time between technical contributions, product shaping, and people management, setting direction, removing blockers, and fostering a strong engineering culture.

$300k - $350k

Anthropic

We are seeking software engineers to join our Safeguards team, focusing on building robust safety and oversight mechanisms for our AI systems. This role involves developing distributed and scalable systems to monitor models, prevent misuse, and ensure user well-being. You will work to detect unwanted model behaviors and prevent disallowed use, applying your technical skills to uphold principles of safety, transparency, and oversight while enforcing terms of service and acceptable use policies.

$320k - $485k

Fieldguide is building a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets by automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners. The Foundation Agents team is responsible for the long-horizon agents that power the Fieldguide AI platform, working at the frontier of AI product development. This role involves focusing on agent knowledge, evaluations, and improving quality and reliability at scale for agents that perform real-world work.

$190k - $220k

Fieldguide is building software to automate and streamline the work of assurance and audit practitioners in cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audits. The Foundation Agents team focuses on the long-horizon agents that power the Fieldguide AI platform, working at the forefront of AI product development in areas like agent knowledge, evaluations, and improving quality and reliability at scale. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will take ownership of how agent quality is measured and improved, and contribute to driving the platform forward.

$225k - $250k

Accenture

Accenture Industry X is seeking a Senior AI Full Stack Developer with expertise in Python and React/TypeScript to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI applications. You will work across the complete technology stack, from Python backend services and AI orchestration layers to responsive React-based user experiences. This role involves hands-on work with Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, Agentic AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), APIs, cloud platforms, and modern DevOps practices, transforming AI concepts into scalable, observable, and production-ready solutions within fast-moving, cross-functional teams.

Cerebras Systems is seeking a Software Engineer to design and build the core software powering their engineering infrastructure. This role involves working on Python frameworks, orchestration systems, distributed execution, scheduling, test infrastructure, and developer tooling. The ideal candidate enjoys dissecting unfamiliar code, understanding system interdependencies, tackling complex debugging challenges, and improving underlying designs rather than implementing quick fixes. The team values strong software engineering fundamentals, independent problem-solving, and sound systems thinking.

As a Search Engineer at You.com, you will blend deep analytical thinking with practical engineering skills to investigate, develop, and implement novel solutions for our search indexing systems. Your work will focus on advancing the core technology that powers our search engine, ensuring that our index is comprehensive, up-to-date, and optimized for speed and relevance. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to translate complex research into practical, scalable applications. This is a remote position open to candidates based in the United States.

$190k - $260k

pika

Pika is building the next generation of AI creative tools to make video creation seamless, intuitive, and accessible to everyone. We are seeking a Principal Product Engineer to lead the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for user-facing systems. In this high-impact role, you will guide the engineering direction for features serving millions of creative users, from intuitive UIs and collaboration tools to real-time interactions and advanced generative AI experiences. You will work closely with product, design, and engineering leadership to deliver robust, scalable, and delightful features, influencing both immediate user experience and long-term product vision from conception to launch and iteration.

OpenAI

We are seeking an AI Systems Engineer to join our pAGI Infra team, which builds and operates the systems essential for large-scale model training and evaluation. This role involves owning projects from identifying bottlenecks and designing solutions to deployment and operation, focusing on distributed systems engineering, performance optimization, and collaboration with researchers. You will directly contribute to improving the speed and reliability of research by potentially building shared grading services, optimizing resource allocation, or integrating new training stacks into production.

$266k - $500k

NVIDIA is seeking a motivated system software engineer with deep understanding of device drivers and strong C/C++ skills to work on the CUDA Driver. This core component of our platform accelerates general-purpose computation on the GPU. You will be an integral part of a team delivering features and improvements to realize the full potential of NVIDIA hardware across diverse workloads, including deep learning, scientific computation, data science, gaming, and virtual reality. You will leverage your design abilities, coding expertise, and creativity to craft elegant solutions to exciting problems and shape the future direction of CUDA.

$184k - $357k

NVIDIA is seeking a motivated system software engineer with deep understanding of device drivers and strong C/C++ skills to work on the CUDA Driver. This core platform component accelerates general-purpose computation on the GPU. You will be an integral part of a team delivering features and improvements to realize the full potential of NVIDIA hardware across diverse workloads, including deep learning, scientific computation, data science, self-driving cars, video games, and virtual reality. You will use your design abilities, coding expertise, and creativity to craft elegant solutions to exciting problems and shape the future direction of CUDA.

$272k - $431k

Reflection ai

Reflection is a research lab dedicated to making intelligence open and accessible. We build open models that empower individuals to control their AI and shape its future. This role focuses on designing and operating large-scale multilingual data pipelines, ensuring the quality and effectiveness of data used for training advanced language models. You will contribute to scientific experiments aimed at improving multilingual data efficiency in large language models and develop evaluation sets to identify and address model performance gaps across different languages and domains.

NVIDIA is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the new AI Safety & Security Engineering team. This role is foundational, focusing on building AI-powered tools to identify, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities. You will own the core harness architecture and establish engineering standards, guiding the program from prototypes to a production pipeline. Your technical roadmap will influence how NVIDIA designs, tests, and validates safety-critical AI systems. This position requires close collaboration with engineering managers, security partners, and evaluation teams, acting as a bridge between research and enterprise-grade software engineering. Teaching and mentorship are key components, involving design reviews and upholding high code quality and safety standards.

$320k - $489k