{"id":52321,"url":"https://alion.io/job/mural-staff-backend-engineer-ai-systems","title":"Staff Backend Engineer, AI Systems","company":{"id":12260,"name":"Mural","domain":"mural.co","url":"https://alion.io/company/mural","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US","GB"],"hiring_countries_total":2,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":185000,"max_usd":308000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":435},"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Embeddings","optional":false},{"name":"Function Calling","optional":false},{"name":"Knowledge Graph","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Tool Use","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"OpenAI","optional":true},{"name":"React.js","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-21T16:37:12Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-21","last_verified_at":"2026-10-12T19:45:09Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":83,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":83},"description":"ABOUT THE TEAM\nThe AI Foundations Team at Mural is pioneering how generative AI transforms visual collaboration and decision-making. We’re a remote-first group of engineers, designers, and product thinkers focused on helping teams work together more effectively. Our goal isn’t to replace human creativity. It’s to amplify it, building AI that enhances how people align, communicate, and make decisions visually.\nYOUR MISSION\nYou will design and build the core AI systems and platforms that enable Mural’s next wave of agentic, AI-driven collaboration experiences.\nRather than building isolated AI features, you’ll work on the core backend systems that power Mural’s agent platform, including agent orchestration, durable execution, contextual memory, tool integration, observability, and evaluation. Your work will enable intelligent agents to reason over product context, act on behalf of users, and operate reliably and safely at scale. Our stack at Mural includes Azure OpenAI, React, Node, MongoDB.\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\nBuild the core backend systems that power Mural’s agent platform, including orchestration, durable execution, tool execution, memory, observability, and evaluation infrastructure\n\nDesign scalable services and APIs that allow AI agents to retrieve context, coordinate multi-step workflows, interact with Mural data, and act reliably on behalf of users\n\nDevelop the agent memory layer, including systems for conversation context, product context, retrieval, summarization, compaction, and long-term context management\n\nCreate infrastructure to monitor, debug, and improve agent behavior through traces, metrics, feedback loops, and offline evaluation\n\nTranslate complex, open-ended product needs into clear backend architectures, service boundaries, data models, and implementation plans that align technical capabilities with user value\n\nHelp define the technical direction for agentic AI at Mural, contributing to long-term architecture and strategy\n\nChampion engineering excellence, mentoring others and establishing best practices for building reliable AI systems\n\nContribute to team growth through hiring, process improvements, and fostering a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and inclusivity\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BRING\n7+ years of software engineering experience, with strong expertise designing, building, and operating reliable production systems, scalable services and APIs, and well-defined system architectures\n\nExperience designing and operating distributed systems for complex workflows, including orchestration, asynchronous processing, job execution, retries, event-driven architectures, long-running processes, and failure recovery\n\nFamiliarity with AI, LLM, or agentic systems, including concepts such as tool use, context retrieval, evaluation, or model orchestration\n\nStrong focus on production quality, including observability, reliability, testing, security, maintainability, and incident response\n\nStrong communication skills, with the ability to produce clear technical documentation and collaborate cross-functionally\n\nExperience working full stack or collaborating closely on product-facing frontend experiences\n\nDeeper AI/ML experience, especially with LLM evaluation, experimentation, embeddings, retrieval systems\n\nExperience with knowledge graphs, graph-based data modeling, entity resolution, or relationship-aware retrieval systems\n\nOUR STACK\nAzure OpenAI, React, Node, MongoDB\nEqual Opportunity\nWe will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3727,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"},{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Team Communication & Collaboration"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-07-21T16:37:12Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":24,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.677,"p_room":0.36,"age_days":82,"expected_fill_days":48,"reasons":["conf:3","velocity","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-12T06:55:09Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/mural-staff-backend-engineer-ai-systems","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/mural-staff-backend-engineer-ai-systems.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-12T20:41:37Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":33598,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":12260},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=12260"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmural-staff-backend-engineer-ai-systems"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmural-staff-backend-engineer-ai-systems"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmural-staff-backend-engineer-ai-systems"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/mural-staff-backend-engineer-ai-systems\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmural-staff-backend-engineer-ai-systems"}]}