Senior Backend Engineer, Together AI

$160-230k

+ Equity

Kubernetes

Python

Tensorflow

C++

Rust

CUDA

PyTorch

Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

3 days a week in office

Cloud platform for building generative AI

Job no longer available

Cloud platform for building generative AI

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechSaaSCloud Computing

Job no longer available

$160-230k

+ Equity

Kubernetes

Python

Tensorflow

C++

Rust

CUDA

PyTorch

Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

3 days a week in office

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechSaaSCloud Computing

Company mission

To empower developers and researchers at organizations of all sizes to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

This is a role for engineers that are familiar with standard backend architecture, database design, and high-performance backend services
5+ years experience writing high-performance, well-tested, production quality code
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Demonstrated experience in building large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems like storage, search, and computation
Expert level programmer in one or more of Go, Python, Rust, or C/C++
Experience designing, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale
Experience with Kubernetes, containers, or AI a plus
GPU programming, NCCL, CUDA knowledge a plus
Experience with Pytorch or Tensorflow a plus

What the job involves

Together AI is looking for a Senior Backend/Distributed Systems engineer to help us build and maintain the codebase that powers the Together Cloud inference and fine tuning services
Our API platform is under constant load and scrutiny, so a key part of the role is experience and commitment to writing easily understood and well-tested code
You will be working closely with the product team to understand and document the functional needs of their product requirements, developing new code to solve new problems, as well as maintaining existing code to squash bugs
Design core, backend software components
Perform architecture and research work for AI workloads
Interface with other teams to incorporate their innovations
Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
Conduct design and code reviews
Create services, tools and developer documentation
Create testing frameworks for robustness and fault-tolerance
Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed

Our take

Founded in 2022, Together AI is a research-driven AI company that operates a cloud platform for building and running generative AI. The company also contributes to open-source research, models and datasets to advance the use of machine learning.

Together AI's platform enables developers, researchers and businesses to train, fine-tune and deploy generative AI for their needs. With Generative AI gaining a lot of attention recently, the company has some high-profile competitors such as ChatGPT, but its focus on research makes it stand out.

The company has an incredibly strong start, evidenced by its substantial funding and Unicorn status. It is using these funds to expand its AI Acceleration Cloud product and prepare a large deployment of its GPUs, all while securing its position as an open-source model-building platform.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Feb 2025

$305m

SERIES B

Mar 2024

$106m

SERIES A

Total funding: $533.5m

Company benefits

Competitive health insurance plans
Dental and vision insurance
Pre-tax flexible spending accounts
Mental health support and services
Income protection & retirement
401(k) plan
AD&D insurance
Life insurance
STD & LTD insurance
Monthly team lunches
Flexible time off policy
Team-driven celebrations and events
Monthly commuting stipend + pre-tax bene

Company HQ

Design District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Ce Zhang

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Previously Professor at ETH Zurich, Postdoc Researcher at Stanford University and Research Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Vipul Ved Prakash

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously Senior Director at Apple, CEO and CTO at Topsy and Founder at Cloudmark.

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