Backend Engineer, Together AI
Cloud platform for building generative AI
Be an early applicant
Cloud platform for building generative AI
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower developers and researchers at organizations of all sizes to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models.
Role
Who you are
- 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 Golang, Java, Rust, or C/C++
- Demonstrated experience with relational (e.g., PostgreSQL) and non-relational (e.g., ClickHouse, Redis) databases
- 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/Nomad and containers is a plus
- Experience with virtual machines, microVMs, or sandboxing technologies (e.g., gVisor, Firecracker, QEMU) is a plus
- Experience with Ceph is a plus
- Experience with Elixir is a plus
What the job involves
- Together AI/Codesandbox is looking for a Senior Backend/Distributed Systems engineer to help us build and maintain the codebase that powers the Together AI Sandbox service
- This is a role for engineers that are familiar with standard backend architecture, database design, and high-performance backend 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
- This means 40 flexible hours, Monday through Friday
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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