TL;DR

Fullstack Engineer (AI): You will own the platforms, systems, and user-facing experiences that bring our conversational AI to life at scale with an accent on backend services and distributed systems to building intuitive, high-performance frontend applications. Focus on rapid iteration, high reliability, and secure delivery of novel AI features to millions of users.

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States

Salary: $234,000.00 to $350,000.00

Company

Inflection AI’s public benefit mission is to harness the power of AI to improve human well-being and productivity.

What you will do

  • Design and implement scalable backend systems and APIs that power production LLM experiences.
  • Develop performant, accessible, and responsive web applications that power conversational AI experiences.
  • Develop internal platforms to improve engineering productivity.
  • Architect and operate high-availability infrastructure to support real-time inference, retrieval, and conversation pipelines.
  • Partner with product and design teams to prototype, test, and iterate quickly on new AI-powered features.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong hands-on experience in both backend and frontend development.
  • Proven experience designing and scaling backend systems (APIs, distributed systems, asynchronous workflows).
  • Strong proficiency across the modern web stack: Python, TypeScript, Node.js, and modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Tailwind).
  • Experience building complex frontend applications with attention to performance, UX, and maintainability.
  • Experience integrating AI/LLM-powered systems into production applications.
  • Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure and workflow tooling, including orchestration frameworks (e.g., Temporal), containerization and Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines on AWS/GCP/Azure.

Nice to have

  • Experience in high-growth or early-stage startup environments is a plus.

Culture & Benefits

  • 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