Staff Engineer - Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
First seen by Alion on Aug 19, 2026.
Responsibilities :
- Work directly with the founders and play a key role in shaping the product and technology.
- Build core systems and products from scratch, rather than working on an existing legacy stack.
- Take significant ownership across architecture, engineering, product decisions, and execution.
- Work deeply with AI/ML and modern engineering technologies to solve meaningful B2B problems.
- Help define the company's engineering culture, practices, and technical foundation.
- Be among the early engineering hires, with substantial impact on the company's direction and growth.
Requirements :
- This is particularly exciting for someone who enjoys 0-1 product building, high ownership, ambiguity, and working closely with experienced founders.
Required Qualifications :
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong experience building and operating distributed backend systems at scale.
- Expert-level proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Java, Python, Nodejs, or Golang.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and software design principles.
- Deep understanding of REST/gRPC APIs, microservices, databases, caching, messaging, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Skills
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Python, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Data Structure, Algorithm