Senior Software Engineer (AI)

Location: On-site in Brooklyn, New York

Salary: $220K–$340K plus equity

Company

Develops AI detection systems, publishes research on AI detection techniques, and builds products that bring the technology into everyday use.

What you will do

• Design and implement scalable backend services and RESTful APIs for AI detection capabilities.
• Own the reliability, performance, observability, and incident response of production systems.
• Architect data pipelines, caching layers, and service infrastructure on AWS.
• Collaborate with machine learning engineers to deploy and serve models in production.
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability bottlenecks as traffic and system complexity grow.
• Improve engineering practices around testing, deployment, and production operations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong backend focus.
• Proficiency in Python and Django or comparable Python web frameworks.
• Deep understanding of backend architecture, relational databases, message queues, caching, and asynchronous task processing.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, CloudFront, or Lambda.
• Experience designing highly available, horizontally scalable systems with graceful degradation.
• Strong production debugging and performance-profiling skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK.
• Experience deploying and serving deep learning models in production, including model serving, GPU infrastructure, and batch versus real-time inference.
• Familiarity with React or frontend technologies for cross-stack collaboration.

Culture & Benefits

• High-autonomy role with ownership of backend infrastructure and architectural decisions.
• Mission-driven work focused on protecting authenticity through AI detection technology.
• Close collaboration with frontend and machine learning engineering teams.
• Equity included in the compensation package.