Member of Technical Staff

Inflection AI

Location:
United States, Palo Alto

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

175000.00 - 350000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

As a backend engineer at Inflection, you will own the platforms, systems, and services that bring our conversational AI to life at scale. You’ll collaborate across research, product, and infrastructure teams to enable rapid iteration, high reliability, and secure delivery of novel AI features to millions of users. Your work will directly impact both the pace of product development and the stability of our production systems.

Job Responsibility:

Design and implement scalable backend systems and APIs that power production LLM experiences, including agentic workflows, memory systems, and tool integrations
Build and operate high-availability infrastructure to support real-time inference, retrieval, and conversation pipelines
Develop internal platforms to improve engineering productivity—CI/CD pipelines, service templates, observability frameworks, and rollout tooling
Collaborate closely with applied research and frontend teams to rapidly prototype, ship, and iterate on end-user features
Ensure systems meet our high bar for security, uptime, and latency—through incident response, load testing, monitoring, and automation
Participate in on-call rotations to maintain the reliability of the services you build

Requirements:

5+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems for high-throughput applications
Fluent in building distributed systems with Python, Go, Rust, or similar languages
Comfortable with cloud-native architectures (e.g., Kubernetes, gRPC, Postgres, Redis, Kafka)
Owned backend services end-to-end—from design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and debugging
Thrive in fast-paced environments where you can move quickly without sacrificing engineering rigor
Proactively improve tooling and infrastructure to support teammates’ workflows and reliability goals
Communicate clearly across disciplines and take pride in solving user-facing problems with clean backend solutions
Have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field to the offered position requirements

What we offer:

Diverse medical, dental and vision options
401k matching program
Unlimited paid time off
Parental leave and flexibility for all parents and caregivers
Support of country-specific visa needs for international employees living in the Bay Area
Competitive stock options

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 09, 2025

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