# MTS - Staff Engineer

About the Role As a Member of Technical Staff (MTS - Staff Engineer) within the company, you will own the architecture, reliability, and evolution of Collinear’s AI agent improvement product offerings. This role is deeply hands-on and focused on backend systems, infrastructure, and distributed execution, with a strong emphasis on performance, scalability, and enterprise readiness. You will be responsible for designing and operating the systems that support multiple customers, multiple deployment models, and an expanding set of evaluation and simulation scenarios. While people management and hiring are nice to have, the priority is technical leadership, architectural judgment, and execution in a fast-moving, customer-facing environment. This role is ideal for someone who has built and operated cloud services at scale and wants to apply that experience to a complex, high-impact AI platform. What You’ll Do Own the architecture, reliability, and scalability of Collinear’s AI agent improvement product offerings. Design and operate multi-tenant, distributed backend systems that support enterprise customers. Make platform-level decisions across infrastructure, runtimes, deployment model

- **Id**: 776642
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/collinear-mts-staff-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sunnyvale, United States, San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-01T22:07:25Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-05-01
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T06:22:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 190
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3427
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Training Data & Annotation

## Company

- **Id**: 673970
- **Name**: Collinear
- **Domain**: collinear.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/collinear>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 400000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 400000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Databricks** — Optional: yes
- **Datadog** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Snowflake** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 190

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T23:11:55Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 4; Filings 12m: 4

## Liveness

- **Score**: 7
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.266
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 190
- **Expected fill days**: 41
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 400000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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