Software Engineer, Groq

Developer Experience

$145.4-276.5k

+ Equity

Next.js

Golang

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Palo Alto, CA

AI semiconductor chip manufacturer

Job no longer available

AI semiconductor chip manufacturer

201-500 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingMachine Learning

Job no longer available

$145.4-276.5k

+ Equity

Next.js

Golang

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Palo Alto, CA

201-500 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingMachine Learning

Company mission

To increase developer velocity in machine learning by leading the way with simple, fast, innovative solutions.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Curiosity: Genuine interest in AI and how Language models are enabling new use cases across a variety of industries
Self-Driven: Ability to see projects through end-to-end independently
Bias to Action: Make decisions and ship code. You shouldn’t like meetings
Humility - Egos are checked at the door
Collaborative & Team Savvy - We make up the smartest person in the room, together
Growth & Giver Mindset - Learn it all versus know it all, we share knowledge generously
Curious & Innovative - Take a creative approach to projects, problems, and design
Passion, Grit, & Boldness - no limit thinking, fueling informed risk taking

What the job involves

Mission: ship code daily to improve the suite of APIs that >200k developers use to build fast AI applications
Software Development: Write simple, concise, high-performance code for both our apis written in Golang and our webapp in Next.js
System Optimization: Performance is everything at Groq. We have dedicated performance teams, but all engineers need to focus on where the milliseconds are spent
Attention to Detail: Uphold a high standard for code quality and user experience. While building great new functionality, also take pride in making error messages clearer and more actionable
Sample Projects:
Function Calling and Tool Use - Add tool use capabilities to our inference apis and add support for new models we bring on board
Self Serve Billing - Build out the ability for developers to create accounts and sign up to our self serve billing tier
Batch Jobs - Build out a mechanism for developers to submit batch jobs that run inference workloads asynchronously when capacity isn’t full

Our take

Groq is an exciting semiconductor startup focused on creating advanced chips designed specifically for AI applications, particularly for AI inference, where models use trained data to deliver fast responses.

Groq aims to challenge Nvidia's dominance by focusing on speed and efficiency for AI deployment. While Nvidia's GPUs handle both training and running AI models, Groq's LPUs are optimized for inference tasks. With a recent $640M funding round, Groq plans to scale up and deploy over 100,000 LPUs by 2025.

To achieve this, the company has partnered with companies like Meta and Samsung, as well as sovereign entities like Saudi Aramco, showcasing the company's growth and potential. With its exciting technology, Groq is well-positioned to play a significant role in the AI chip market in the coming years.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

-19% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (2.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Sep 2025

$750m

LATE VC

Aug 2024

$640m

SERIES D

Total funding: $1.8bn

Company HQ

Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA

Leadership

Jonathan Ross

(Founder & CEO)

Majored in Mathematics and Computer Science at NYU. Joined Google as a Software Engineer in 2011, and was promoted to Hardware Engineer in 2013. Co-founded Google's Tensor Processing Unit. Was also a Rapid Evaluator at Google X, and then founded Groq in 2016, acting as its CTO before becoming the CEO in 2018.

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