Senior Applied AI Engineer

The role

You will build and extend backend systems that power the platform. This includes building production backend services in Python, working across the stack, and shipping iteratively against customer needs.

What you will do

• Build production backend services in Python
• Work across the stack from service code to data pipelines and integration layers
• Ship iteratively against real customer needs
• Own the reliability, performance, and evolution of the services built
• Contribute to code quality, technical direction, and mentorship of earlier-career engineers

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience in production environments
• Strong Python fundamentals and experience building and operating backend services
• Demonstrated ability to work across adjacent parts of a stack (data, infrastructure, APIs)
• Track record of shipping in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
• Clear written and verbal communication

Nice to have

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems
• Comfort with performance-sensitive code and systems where latency and throughput matter
• Exposure to data-intensive applications
• 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

About the company

Alembic is an applied science company building GPU-resident distributed data systems for Fortune 500 clients. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with a New York office and an SV11 compute facility.