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Full-Time

Senior Backend Engineer

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Together AI

Together AI

51-200 employees

Enterprise Software
AI & Machine Learning

Compensation Overview

$160k - $230kAnnually

+ Equity + Benefits

Senior, Expert

San Francisco, CA, USA

Category
Backend Engineering
Software Engineering
Required Skills
Kubernetes
Rust
Python
Tensorflow
CUDA
Operating Systems
Requirements
  • 5+ years experience writing high-performance, well-tested, production quality code
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Demonstrated experience in building large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems like storage, search, and computation
  • Expert level programmer in one or more of Go, Python, Rust, or C/C++
  • Experience designing, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
  • Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale
  • Experience with Kubernetes, containers, or AI a plus
  • GPU programming, NCCL, CUDA knowledge a plus
  • Experience with Pytorch or Tensorflow a plus
Responsibilities
  • Design core, backend software components
  • Perform architecture and research work for AI workloads
  • Interface with other teams to incorporate their innovations
  • Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
  • Conduct design and code reviews
  • Create services, tools and developer documentation
  • Create testing frameworks for robustness and fault-tolerance
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$222.3M

Headquarters

Menlo Park, California

Founded

N/A

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

74%

1 year growth

135%

2 year growth

683%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • The $106M funding round led by Salesforce Ventures provides significant capital for growth and innovation.
  • Hiring top talent, such as the head of sales operations from Coinbase, strengthens the company's leadership team.
  • The release of the biological foundational model Evo opens new avenues in biotech, potentially revolutionizing DNA, RNA, and protein sequence analysis.

What critics are saying

  • The competitive landscape in AI hardware optimization is intense, with new entrants like Groq posing potential threats.
  • Dependence on Nvidia's GPUs could be a vulnerability if supply chain issues or technological shifts occur.

What makes Together AI unique

  • Together AI's collaboration with top-tier institutions like Meta, Nvidia, and Princeton University on FlashAttention-3 showcases its cutting-edge research capabilities.
  • The company's focus on optimizing LLMs for Nvidia Hopper GPUs positions it uniquely in the AI hardware optimization space.
  • Together AI's valuation of $1.25 billion and backing from industry giants like Salesforce Ventures and Nvidia highlight its strong market position and investor confidence.