Reducto

Backend/AI Engineer

San Francisco Office

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 238 days ago

PythonAlgorithmsAPI DevelopmentRESTMachine LearningLLMsAgentic AI

About the role

We want someone who ships fast, with high agency, and who doesn't just voice problems but actively jumps in to fix them.

We provide a comprehensive toolkit for working with documents the way a human would, combining custom in-house and leading frontier models to power efficient and accurate document workflows.
As a Backend/AI Engineer, you'll work on our core API that powers document parsing for hundreds of companies.
You'll integrate cutting-edge LLMs, optimize document processing pipelines, and build the infrastructure that makes state-of-the-art document understanding accessible at scale.
Automatically convert graphs to tabular data and summarize images in documents
Build powerful retrieval pipelines using Reducto's document metadata
Intelligently chunk information using the document's layout data
Making improvements to API design and pre-processing algorithms (chunking, structured extraction, etc.) based on customer feedback
Integrating and optimizing LLM calls for structured extraction, form filling, and document understanding tasks
Building and improving document processing pipelines that handle everything from PDFs to spreadsheets at scale
Building internal tooling and evals to better understand/analyze failure cases

You have a high bar for quality and don't rest until the job is done right-no settling for 90%.
You have 2+ years of experience building real world applications and integrating LLMs into production systems
Ability to debug, experiment, and iterate fast.
Have experience with prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or building AI agents

Insurance claims, financial statements, invoices, and health records are all stored in a structure that's simply impractical for use in digital workflows.

Working directly with the founders and customers to shape the product direction and engineering strategy
We're an early stage company which means that the role requires working hard and moving quickly.
Reducto is the agentic document platform for leading AI teams who demand enterprise performance at scale.
We've grown rapidly, increasing revenue 8x year over year and partnering with hundreds of companies, from leading AI teams like Harvey, Vanta, and Scale, to enterprise customers across FAANG and top trading firms.
At Reducto, we're invested in the well-being and growth of our team.

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