Backend Developer Salary in Palo Alto

Backend Developer jobs in Palo Alto hiring now at vetted startups and product companies on Alion, updated daily. Average salary around $261,263/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

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Intuitive Machines

intuitivemachines.com
intuitivemachines.com · HQ: Houston, United States · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2013 · Hiring 53, 6 new
HQ: Houston, United States · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2013 · Hiring 53, 6 new
Intuitive Machines built the Nova-C lander that made the first commercial Moon landing. Its work covers lunar delivery, orbital services and space infrastructure. The company is publicly listed and based near the Johnson Space Center.
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Principal Software Verification & Validation Engineer

$146k – $244k per year · Lead · In office (Palo Alto, San Jose, Houston, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Nationals only · Principal
C++
Python
DevOps
GitLab
CI/CD
Management
Confluence
MedTech
Verification & Validation
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Rhombus Power

rhombuspower.com
rhombuspower.com · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Decision Intelligence · Defense AI · National Security · 51-200 employees · Est. 2011 · Hiring 9
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Decision Intelligence · Defense AI · National Security · 51-200 employees · Est. 2011 · Hiring 9
Rhombus Power is an American defence technology company providing AI-powered predictive intelligence and decision support for defence and national security organisations. Founded in 2011, its products include Ambient AI and Guardian, and it hires cleared data scientists, data engineers and software engineers. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.
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Software Engineer

$100k – $140k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (Palo Alto, Washington, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Senior
Node JS
PHP
JavaScript
Databases
MySQL
Frontend
GraphQL
React.js
JQuery
Mobile
MVC
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Docker
Linux
Kubernetes
AWS
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Nubank

nubank.com.br
nubank.com.br · HQ: São Paulo, Brazil · Financial Services · Cards & Card Issuing · Digital Banks & Neobanks · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2013 · Trust A · Hiring 84, 9 new
HQ: São Paulo, Brazil · Financial Services · Cards & Card Issuing · Digital Banks & Neobanks · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2013 · Trust A · Hiring 84, 9 new
Nubank is a Brazilian digital bank founded in 2013 that began by issuing a no-fee purple credit card to customers frustrated by the branch banking oligopoly, and it has grown into one of the largest financial institutions in Latin America by customer count. It now serves well over a hundred million customers across Brazil, Mexico and Colombia with accounts, cards, lending, investments and insurance, operating entirely without branches. Headquartered in São Paulo and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it was an early Berkshire Hathaway investment and is unusual among digital banks for being consistently profitable at scale.
Cristina Junqueira · Co-founder · decision-maker
David Velez · Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Edward Wible · Co-founder · founder
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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience

≈ $223k – $417k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Staff+ · Hybrid (Palo Alto, Miami, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time · Staff
Human-in-the-Loop
Copilot
LLM
AI Agents
DevOps
GitHub
CI/CD
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Staff Mobile Software Engineer (AI Private Banker, SV) - US - IC7 - 2026

≈ $213k – $398k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time · Staff
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Staff Software Engineer (Crypto, SV) - US - IC7 - 2026

≈ $237k – $442k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Threat Modeling
Web3
DeFi
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American Express

americanexpress.com
americanexpress.com · HQ: New York, United States · Commercial & Retail Banks · Payment Processing & Gateways · Cards & Card Issuing · 5000+ employees · Est. 1850 · Trust A · Hiring 348, 54 new
HQ: New York, United States · Commercial & Retail Banks · Payment Processing & Gateways · Cards & Card Issuing · 5000+ employees · Est. 1850 · Trust A · Hiring 348, 54 new
American Express is a New York financial services company founded in 1850 as an express freight business that became a payments network and card issuer. Unlike the four-party networks it competes with, it issues most of its own cards and operates its own network, which lets it earn merchant discount revenue as well as interest and annual fees, and supports a premium rewards proposition built on travel and lounge access. Its business spans consumer and small business cards, corporate payments, merchant acquiring and travel services, and it is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Stephen Squeri · Chairman and Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
William Fargo · Co-founder · founder
Henry Wells · Co-founder · founder
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Senior Software Engineer I

≈ $118k – $219k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 7+ years exp · In office (Phoenix, Palo Alto, United States) · Senior
LLM Guardrails
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
DevOps
OpenTofu
Kong
Service Mesh
Amazon EKS
Google GKE
Azure AKS
FinOps
API Gateway
VPN
DNS
IAM
Terraform
GCP
Kubernetes
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Cybersecurity
Zero Trust
Defense in Depth
Least Privilege
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River AI

river.ai
river.ai · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · AI Development Tools · AI Chips & Accelerators · Foundation Models · 201-500 employees · Est. 2026 · Startup · Trust C · Hiring 19, 1 new
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · AI Development Tools · AI Chips & Accelerators · Foundation Models · 201-500 employees · Est. 2026 · Startup · Trust C · Hiring 19, 1 new
River AI is an artificial intelligence company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and founded in 2026 by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin. The company is building what it calls an open AI stack, spanning personal AI models, tooling for developers to train and serve their own models, and a custom system on chip with an onboard machine learning accelerator. It raised 1.1 billion dollars led by General Catalyst with strategic investment from NVIDIA and AMD Ventures.
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Software Engineer, Distributed Training

$200k – $420k per year · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Relocation · Bachelor's Degree
Python
Rust
C++
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Reinforcement Learning
JAX
Mixture of Experts
PyTorch
LoRA
PEFT
CUDA
Pre-training
NCCL
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Software Engineer, Inference Systems

$200k – $420k per year · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Relocation · Bachelor's Degree
Rust
C++
Python
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
Mixture of Experts
KV Cache
vLLM
SGLang
TensorRT
TensorRT-LLM
CUDA
Pre-training
Speculative Decoding
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Product Engineer, Personal AI

$200k – $420k per year · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Relocation · Bachelor's Degree
Rust
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
AI/ML
Function Calling
Structured Outputs
LLM
Pre-training
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
React Native
DevOps
CI/CD
Terraform
Kubernetes
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HP Inc.

hp.com
hp.com · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Consumer Electronics · Hardware · Artificial Intelligence · 3D Printers & Additive Manufacturing · Computer Peripherals · Printers & Scanners · Laptops · 5000+ employees · Est. 2015 · Trust A · Hiring 800, 122 new
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Consumer Electronics · Hardware · Artificial Intelligence · 3D Printers & Additive Manufacturing · Computer Peripherals · Printers & Scanners · Laptops · 5000+ employees · Est. 2015 · Trust A · Hiring 800, 122 new
HP Inc. is an American technology company created in 2015 when the original Hewlett-Packard split its personal systems and printing businesses away from its enterprise arm. It is one of the largest personal computer vendors in the world, shipping consumer and commercial laptops, desktops and workstations under the HP, Pavilion, Envy, EliteBook, OMEN and Poly brands, alongside a printing division covering home, office, large-format and industrial 3D printing. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company earns a large share of profit from supplies and services attached to its installed base and has pushed into hybrid-work peripherals and subscription hardware.
Bret Hern · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Ruston Vickers · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Dan Keelan · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Rick Leung · Executive Officer · decision-maker
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Principal Software Architect

$165k – $260k per year · Lead · 10+ years exp · In office (Houston, Palo Alto, United States) · Relocation · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Architect
Rust
Go
Node JS
C#
TypeScript
C++
JavaScript
Python
PowerShell
Rust
Tauri
C++
TensorFlow C++
AI/ML
Embeddings
Quantization
Multimodal AI
Edge AI
ONNX Runtime
Agentic Workflows
TensorFlow
Computer Vision
PyTorch
RAG
LLM
Machine Learning
AI Agents
Frontend
Angular
React.js
DevOps
Windows
Git
CI/CD
WebRTC
Azure
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HP

hewlett-packard.de
hewlett-packard.de · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Printers & Scanners · Laptops · 5000+ employees · Est. 1939 · Trust B · Hiring 1031, 182 new
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Printers & Scanners · Laptops · 5000+ employees · Est. 1939 · Trust B · Hiring 1031, 182 new
HP is a technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that designs and sells personal computers, workstations, printers, print supplies, 3D printing systems and related software and services for consumers and businesses. It is the legal successor of the original Hewlett-Packard, founded in 1939, which in 2015 split its PC and printing business from Hewlett Packard Enterprise; it is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and operates research, manufacturing and support sites worldwide. It hires channel and partner managers, printing service and support engineers, product and quality program managers, ink chemists, software security engineers, and finance and HR interns.
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Principal Software Architect

$165k – $260k per year · Lead · 10+ years exp · In office (Houston, Palo Alto, United States) · Relocation · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Architect
Rust
Go
Node JS
C#
TypeScript
C++
JavaScript
Python
PowerShell
Rust
Tauri
C++
TensorFlow C++
AI/ML
Embeddings
Quantization
Multimodal AI
Edge AI
ONNX Runtime
Agentic Workflows
TensorFlow
Computer Vision
PyTorch
RAG
LLM
Machine Learning
AI Agents
Frontend
Angular
React.js
DevOps
Windows
Git
CI/CD
WebRTC
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ALSO

ridealso.com
ridealso.com · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Smart Mobility · Shared Mobility · Transportation & Logistics · 201-500 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 34
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Smart Mobility · Shared Mobility · Transportation & Logistics · 201-500 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 34
ALSO is an electric micromobility company based in Palo Alto, California, designing vertically integrated small electric vehicles such as the modular TM-B electric bike and related cargo and utility configurations. Originally conceived inside the electric vehicle maker Rivian, it develops its own hardware, controls and software and has teams in Seattle, Los Angeles, Taiwan and Belgium for supply chain, operations and European sales. It hires controls, actuator and validation engineers, supply managers, commercial program managers, fleet service technicians and community and operations staff.
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Senior Cloud Backend Developer

$183k – $215k per year · Senior · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Redis
Apache Kafka
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
gRPC
API Gateway
Rest API
IoT
MQTT
CoAP
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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Manufacturing Software

$225k – $265k per year · Staff+ · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Staff · English: B2
Python
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Staff Cloud Backend Developer

$200k – $250k per year · Staff+ · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
DynamoDB
Redis
Apache Kafka
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
gRPC
AWS Lambda
Amazon ECS
API Gateway
Amazon S3
IAM
Rest API
AWS
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MQTT
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GRAM

gram.ai
gram.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Robotic Software & Control Systems · Robotics AI · Hiring 13
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Robotic Software & Control Systems · Robotics AI · Hiring 13
GRAM is a robotics company working on self-replicating machines and creating populations of insectoid robots for the physical economy. It hires robotics systems, manipulation, mechanical design, magnetics and robot data infrastructure engineers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
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Senior Software Engineer, Controls

$150k – $250k per year · Senior · In office (San Francisco, Palo Alto, El Segundo, United States) · Relocation · Bachelor's Degree · Senior
C++
Python
DevOps
Linux
Robotics
ROS
Drake
MuJoCo
Pinocchio
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Senior Software Engineer, Robot Data Infrastructure

$190k – $240k per year · Senior · In office (San Francisco, Palo Alto, United States) · Relocation · Bachelor's Degree · Senior
Rust
C++
Java
Python
AI/ML
Time Series
Robotics
Teleoperation
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ExaMple

medici.agency
medici.agency · HQ: New York, United States · Hiring 16
HQ: New York, United States · Hiring 16
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Senior Software Engineer

≈ $149k – $277k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Senior · In office (Palo Alto, New York, San Francisco, United States) · Senior
JavaScript
Ruby
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Mobile
MVC
DevOps
Heroku
Rest API
AWS
Cybersecurity
Okta
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Mistral AI

mistral.ai
mistral.ai · HQ: Paris, France · Code Intelligence · AI Research Labs · LLM & Generative AI · Foundation Models · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2023 · Trust A · Hiring 225, 8 new
HQ: Paris, France · Code Intelligence · AI Research Labs · LLM & Generative AI · Foundation Models · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2023 · Trust A · Hiring 225, 8 new
Mistral AI is a French artificial intelligence company founded in Paris in 2023 by former researchers from Google DeepMind and Meta. It builds efficient open-weight and commercial large language models, including the Mistral, Mixtral, Magistral and Codestral families, and distributes them through its own developer platform as well as the major cloud marketplaces. Positioned as Europe's leading frontier model developer, the company also ships the Le Chat assistant, on-premise deployment options for regulated industries and a sovereign compute offering for customers who must keep data inside the region.
Timothee Lacroix · Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer · decision-maker
Guillaume Lample · Co-Founder & Chief Scientist · decision-maker
Arthur Mensch · Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Timothée Lacroix · Directeur Général · decision-maker
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Research Engineer, Full Stack

≈ $140k – $303k per year (Estimated) · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Relocation · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · English: C1
Node JS
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
AI/ML
Mistral
LLM
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
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Getvinci

getvinci.ai
getvinci.ai · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · E-learning · Artificial Intelligence · Foundation Models · 201-500 employees · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 38, 2 new
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · E-learning · Artificial Intelligence · Foundation Models · 201-500 employees · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 38, 2 new
Run full-resolution simulations in minutes. Vinci’s foundation model for physics unites AI acceleration with verified solvers for as-built accuracy.
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Member of Technical Staff - Full-Stack Software Engineer

$180k – $220k per year · Staff+ · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
TypeScript
C++
JavaScript
Python
Cython
C++
Protobuf
STL
Cython
PyBind11
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
CUDA
ROCm
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
gRPC
CI/CD
OpenTelemetry
SLURM
HPC
Prometheus
Linux
Kubernetes
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Member of Technical Staff - Software Engineer

$180k – $220k per year · Staff+ · 6+ years exp · Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
C++
Python
AI/ML
VLM
LLM
CUDA
DevOps
gRPC
HPC
Docker
Kubernetes
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 4 months ago Long shot · 21%

Software Engineer – Nonlinear Solid Mechanics & High-Performance Computing

$190k – $230k per year · Middle · 3+ years exp · Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
C++
Python
AI/ML
CUDA
Machine Learning
DevOps
HPC
Git
CI/CD
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Typeface

typeface.ai
typeface.ai · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · AI Agents · Content Creation · LLM & Generative AI · Marketing & Sales AI · 201-500 employees · Est. 2022 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 18
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · AI Agents · Content Creation · LLM & Generative AI · Marketing & Sales AI · 201-500 employees · Est. 2022 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 18
Typeface is a company founded in 2022 by a former Adobe chief technology officer to generate on-brand marketing content with artificial intelligence. Its platform learns a company's brand voice, products and visual identity, then produces copy, imagery and campaign assets that stay consistent across channels. It sells to enterprise marketing teams and integrates with Microsoft, Google and Salesforce tools.
Abhay Parasnis · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Ravi Mhatre · Director
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Staff Software Engineer

$210k – $240k per year · Staff+ · 12+ years exp · Hybrid (Bellevue, Palo Alto, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Staff
Claude
AI Agents
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
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Staff Platform/Backend Engineer

$210k – $240k per year · Staff+ · 10+ years exp · Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Staff
Rust
Go
Java
Python
AI/ML
LLM
AI Agents
DevOps
Platform Engineering
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Azure
AWS
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Turing Labs

turingsaas.com
turingsaas.com · HQ: New York, United States · Manufacturing & Industrial Software · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Est. 2019 · Startup · Hiring 6
HQ: New York, United States · Manufacturing & Industrial Software · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Est. 2019 · Startup · Hiring 6
Turing Labs is a Y Combinator and Insight Partners-backed AI software platform engineered to accelerate product development, formulation, and regulatory compliance for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies. Its proprietary "Growth OS" leverages domain-trained AI agents - including its Luna optimization engine - to unify commercial strategy, formulation histories, financial targets, and ingredient safety standards within a single predictive system.
Ajith Satheesh · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Manmit Shrimali · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Josh Fredberg · Director
Ajith Sateesh · Director
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Senior Software Engineer - Former founder preferred

$130k – $210k per year · Equity 0.1–0.4% · Senior · 3+ years exp · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Embeddings
OpenAI Codex
LangChain
Claude Code
LLM
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
AWS
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Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

$200k – $250k per year · Equity 0.1–0.4% · Senior · 3+ years exp · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
TypeScript
JavaScript
AI/ML
LangChain
Machine Learning
AI Agents
Embeddings
ChatGPT
LLM
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
AWS
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Prophet Security

prophetsecurity.ai
prophetsecurity.ai · HQ: San Francisco, Palo Alto, United States · Security Operations · Cybersecurity AI · 11-50 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Hiring 7, 2 new
HQ: San Francisco, Palo Alto, United States · Security Operations · Cybersecurity AI · 11-50 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Hiring 7, 2 new
Prophet Security automates alert triage in the security operations centre with agents that investigate each detection. They gather context from the customer's own tools and hand analysts a verdict with the evidence behind it. The company targets teams drowning in alerts they cannot review.
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Software Engineer, Backend New Graduate

$150k – $273k per year · Junior · Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Junior
Go
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
Machine Learning
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Software Engineer, Backend Intern

Intern · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Internship · Intern
Go
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
Machine Learning
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Senior Software Engineer, Backend

$150k – $273k per year · Senior · 2+ years exp · Palo Alto · New York · Remote (United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Senior
Go
Python
TypeScript
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Perplexity AI

perplexity.ai
perplexity.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Foundation Models · LLM & Generative AI · Search Engines · AI Search · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2022 · Trust B · Hiring 137, 10 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Foundation Models · LLM & Generative AI · Search Engines · AI Search · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2022 · Trust B · Hiring 137, 10 new
Perplexity AI is an American company that builds an answer engine combining live web search with large language models to return sourced, conversational responses instead of a list of links. Its products span a consumer assistant on web and mobile, the Comet browser, enterprise search over internal documents and the Sonar developer API that exposes the same grounded retrieval stack. Founded in 2022 in San Francisco by former researchers and engineers from OpenAI, Meta and Databricks, the company is backed by NVIDIA, IVP, New Enterprise Associates and SoftBank.
Johnny Ho · Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer · decision-maker
Denis Yarats · Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer · decision-maker
Aravind Srinivas · Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Aravind Lakshminarayanan · Director, Executive Officer · decision-maker
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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Model Platform)

$220k – $405k per year · Staff+ · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, Palo Alto, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Staff
Rust
Go
C++
Python
AI/ML
Perplexity
AI Agents
DevOps
Kubernetes
AWS
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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Knowledge Platform)

$220k – $405k per year · Staff+ · 4+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Palo Alto, United States, London, United Kingdom) · Full-Time · Staff
Rust
Go
Python
AI/ML
Perplexity
Model Context Protocol
LLM
DevOps
Kubernetes
AWS
Cybersecurity
Defense in Depth
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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform)

$220k – $405k per year · Staff+ · 4+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, New York, Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Rust
Go
Python
AI/ML
Perplexity
DevOps
Kubernetes
AWS
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Astrocade

astrocade.com
astrocade.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Generative Video · Game Development · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 6
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Generative Video · Game Development · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 6
Astrocade lets people create and play small games generated from natural language descriptions. Founded in 2023 in San Francisco, it targets social play rather than professional game development. Its platform combines generation with a community of shared creations.
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Product Engineer

$160k – $220k per year · Junior · 2+ years exp · Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Junior
TypeScript
SQL
JavaScript
AI/ML
World Models
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
React Native
Analytics
A/B Testing
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Mercari

mercari.bg
mercari.bg · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Secondhand · Marketplaces · Hiring 1
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Secondhand · Marketplaces · Hiring 1
Mercari is an online marketplace app where people sell and buy almost anything, from fashion and toys to sporting goods and electronics. The service reports more than 50 million downloads in the United States. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.
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Software Engineer, Data

$146k – $219k per year · Middle · 4+ years exp · Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Middle
TypeScript
SQL
Python
Databases
Google BigQuery
AI/ML
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Looker
Tableau
Power BI
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Allocate

allocate.com
allocate.com · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Financial Software & Embedded Finance · Trust A · Hiring 12
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Financial Software & Embedded Finance · Trust A · Hiring 12
Allocate is a financial technology company that operates an intelligent operating system designed to bridge the gap between private market asset managers and the wealth advisory sector.
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Sr. Software Engineer II - Full Stack

$145k – $175k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (Palo Alto, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Senior
C#
TypeScript
Java
SQL
JavaScript
C#
ASP.NET Core
Entity Framework Core
Dapper
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
OpenAI Codex
Human-in-the-Loop
Agentic Workflows
Cursor
Claude Code
AI Agents
Model Context Protocol
Frontend
Vue.js
DevOps
Amazon EKS
Amazon ECS
Amazon S3
Rest API
Git
AWS
Docker Compose
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes
Management
Agile
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Matroid

matroid.com
matroid.com · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Machine Learning · Industrial AI · Computer Vision · 51-200 employees · Est. 2016 · Trust C · Hiring 12
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Machine Learning · Industrial AI · Computer Vision · 51-200 employees · Est. 2016 · Trust C · Hiring 12
Matroid is a computer vision software company whose platform lets users build detectors that identify objects, actions, defects and events in images and video. It sells to manufacturers for visual inspection and to security and government customers, and supports vision language and vision foundation models. The company was founded in 2016. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.
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Principal Software Engineer

≈ $168k – $336k per year (Estimated) · Lead · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time · Principal
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
DevOps
Kubernetes
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Software Engineer, Product

≈ $141k – $304k per year (Estimated) · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Full-Time
Node JS
JavaScript
AI/ML
Interpretability
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Frontend
React.js
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Software Engineer, Systems & Infrastructure

≈ $123k – $243k per year (Estimated) · Middle · 4+ years exp · In office (Palo Alto, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Middle
Python
Databases
Redis
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
DevOps
Linux
Helm
Nginx
Prometheus
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
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