Alembic

Senior Applied AI Engineer

San Francisco HQ · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$10k-$100kDetected 90 days ago

PythonDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentData EngineeringLLMsResearchLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

This is a hands-on role on a small team where your work ships to production quickly and directly shapes what our largest customers see.
You'll work across Python-heavy backend services, data systems, and the infrastructure layer that connects them to our GPU-resident compute.
A note on "Applied AI." Our work is causal, not generative AI.

Own what you build - take responsibility for reliability, performance, and evolution of the services you stand up
Strong Python fundamentals and experience building and operating backend services
Alembic is an applied science company building GPU-resident distributed data systems that deliver 10-100x performance for Fortune 500 clients including NVIDIA and Delta.

5+ years of backend software engineering experience in production environments
Demonstrated ability to work across adjacent parts of a stack (data, infrastructure, APIs) rather than staying in a narrow lane
Track record of shipping in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
Experience designing and operating distributed systems
Comfort with performance-sensitive code and systems where latency and throughput matter

GPU or accelerator-adjacent engineering experience
Background in high-scale or high-performance computing environments
Experience partnering closely with applied science or research teams
Familiarity with causal inference or graph-based systems
Work on systems that are genuinely novel - GPU-resident infrastructure running real-time causal computation at a scale few companies are attempting
Small team, high ownership, short path from idea to production

Build production backend services in Python - APIs, data services, and the glue between our compute layer and the products customers use
Work across the stack as needed - touch whatever part of the system the problem requires, from service code to data pipelines to integration layers

This listing is sourced directly from Alembic's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.