Staff Software Engineer, webAI
Runtime Lead
Plus performance-based incentives
Unified execution layer for AI
Open for applications
Unified execution layer for AI
21-100 employees
Open for applications
Plus performance-based incentives
21-100 employees
Company mission
To revolutionize the AI industry by laying the foundation for the development of Super Intelligence (SI).
Role
Who you are
- If you’ve worked at scale — supporting millions of users, optimizing requests per second in real time, and enabling company growth from 50 to 200+ employees — we want you to help shape our future
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 8+ years of experience in product driven backend engineering, though we’re open to talking to candidates who have spent extensive time in embedded systems, platform teams, etc
- Strong proficiency in Go. Additional experience with Python and Rust preferred
- Experience with at least one messaging system such as MQTT, Kafka, Nats
- Experience with deployment pipelines, including CI/CD processes, and the ability to adapt to and manage a custom deployment strategy tailored to our unique system architecture and runtime requirements
- You already know you’re a great candidate and are glad we didn’t list out the entire SDLC in our posting
What the job involves
- As a key technical lead you’ll design and implement systems for both local air-gapped systems as well as customer distributed deployments. You’ll be driving new features through robust backwards compatible updates that impact all of webAI’s customers and products
- You’ll participate in our budding knowledge, architecture, processes and systems, contributing your experience and intuition to raise the bar for the engineering org while making technical choices accessible to product owners
- All of this work will directly influence the company’s ability to deliver AI-powered products and services. You will have ownership in a critical area that shapes the future of the company
- Backend expertise gained in production systems building a product whose systems design never interrupts the user experience. You’ll be doing analysis of performance and creating resource utilization management that we’ll continually use to iterate on our product capabilities
- You’ll help mentor and grow the engineering team, using your expertise to help guide webAI’s technical strategy as we transition into becoming a larger company. Once you’ve gotten your footing we’ll involve you in contributing to the planning and execution of technical roadmaps so we can adapt to the changing landscape
Our take
On a mission to democratize artificial intelligence, WebAI has built a decentralised development platform that minimises the amount of data required to build AI models. This directly challenges the assumption that big data is intrinsic to AI, and enables for local, ownable and customizable models to be made.
The company's unified execution layer helps to streamline the training and deployment of models in a way which is both scalable and flexible. Enterprises can use their existing infrastructure to run powerful models while ensuring their data never leaves their devices. Plus they can tailor each model to their needs with no coding needed.
WebAI believes that off-the-shelf AI models lack the flexibility and control required to be used in real-world tasks, which is what its platform helps to combat. This approach has attracted impressive investment that will be used to grow its development efforts and elevate its mission to democratise AI.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2024
$60m
SERIES A
Dec 2022
$17m
SEED
Total funding: $77m
Company benefits
- Performance-based incentives
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits package
- $200/mos Health and Wellness Stipend
- $400/year Continuing Education Credit
- Flexible work week
- Free parking for in-office employees
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental & Bereavement Leave
- Supplemental Life Insurance
Company HQ
Congress Avenue Historic District, Austin, TX
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Leadership
David Stout
(Co-Founder & CEO)Also Founder at Ghost House Technology.
Ethan Baird
(Co-Founder & Chief Research Officer)Previously Software Programmer at Ghost House Technology and Web Technician at Revision Marketing and Design.
Tyler Mauer
(Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer)Previously Director of Product and Market at Ghost House Technology, and consulted at YETi, RANDY'S HOUSE and Shinola.
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