Full-Time

Software Engineer

Backend

Updated on 8/1/2026

Nace AI

Nace AI

11-50 employees

Creates task-specific SLMs for enterprises

No salary listed

Palo Alto, CA, USA

In Person

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
LLM
Kubernetes
Python
Distributed Systems
React.js
Node.js
Machine Learning
Data Engineering
Docker
Go
Terraform
Vue.js
REST APIs
DevOps
Angular

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Requirements
  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience building and maintaining full-stack software infrastructure, with expertise in both frontend and backend development.
  • Hands-on experience building AI agents, AI agent frameworks or orchestration systems, or complex large language model-powered applications and workflows, including retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, multi-agent systems, prompt-chaining architectures, or large language model orchestration frameworks.
  • Practical knowledge of cloud infrastructure management, including Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
  • Proven expertise in designing, scaling, and optimizing enterprise-grade machine learning or data-intensive systems.
Responsibilities
  • Architect, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack components, including frontend applications and backend services.
  • Design and implement APIs and data pipelines that support deployment and interaction with AI agents and large-scale data-processing workflows.
  • Contribute to core AI agent frameworks, including tool integration, memory systems, and planning or orchestration modules.
  • Develop and implement AI agent evaluation methodologies and tooling to test, benchmark, and monitor agent performance, reliability, and safety in production.
  • Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure to provide high availability, cost efficiency, and scalability for the application layer and underlying AI compute resources.
  • Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and cross-team collaboration to deliver production-grade solutions across the full stack.
Desired Qualifications
  • A Master's or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • Demonstrated experience developing and managing large-scale distributed systems and high-throughput AI infrastructures.
  • Expertise in a modern frontend framework such as React, Vue, or Angular and associated state-management libraries.
  • Experience developing and deploying AI agent evaluation frameworks using tools such as LangSmith, Arize, or custom evaluation metrics.
  • Demonstrated success building production large language model applications with complex workflows such as autonomous agents, conversational AI systems, or intelligent automation platforms.

Nace AI builds a meta-learning framework, MetaModel, that creates task-specific Small Language Models (SLMs) for enterprises. The system automatically selects model architectures, layer configurations, and parameters to tailor AI workflows for audit, compliance, and credit loan intelligence, delivering lightweight, workflow-focused AI that understands industry terms and regulatory needs. It differentiates itself by offering automated, explainable AI setups that align with company controls and financial regulations, enabling faster, more accurate results without extra resources. The company’s goal is to help enterprises adapt mainstream language models to their unique business needs, improving workflow efficiency, decision-making, and risk management.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$26.5M

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California

Founded

2023

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What believers are saying

  • Audit and compliance buyers need faster, explainable automation now.
  • Seed funding from Walden Catalyst and General Catalyst supports product expansion.
  • Adjacent regulated industries offer reuse of the same task-specific model architecture.

What critics are saying

  • OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic can bundle similar enterprise customization quickly.
  • Human expert validation limits margins and slows deployment at scale.
  • One compliance error can destroy trust in regulated customer accounts.

What makes Nace AI unique

  • MetaModel generates task-specific SLMs instead of forcing one general model.
  • NAVI targets audit and compliance workflows with explainable, policy-grounded outputs.
  • NEMA automates agent design through meta-learning and workflow iteration.

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Headcount

6 month growth

4%

1 year growth

4%

2 year growth

4%
Tech Transformation
Mar 24th, 2025
Nace.AI Shakes Up Enterprise AI with MetaModel 1: Task-Specific Models That Outperform the Giants

Nace.AI has emerged from stealth with $5 million in funding led by General Catalyst to launch MetaModel 1, an AI system designed to generate small, task-specific models.