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Staff Backend Engineer

$200k - $250k

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Join an elite team as a Senior Backend Engineer architecting the high-performance data backbone and ML infrastructure that powers autonomous manufacturing. You will build the low-latency systems that enable physical machines to process massive sensor streams, think in real-time, and operate with precision in high-stakes defense environments.

Staff Backend Engineer Benefits
- Starting Salary targeting $200K-$250K
- Equity stake of 0.5% to 1.0%
- Work on frontier vision-language-action models
- Greenfield ownership


- Comprehensive benefits


Staff Backend Engineer Qualifications
- 7+ years of Senior Backend Engineering experience, with a proven track record of architecting and deploying production-grade data pipelines in Python, Rust, or C++.
- Large-scale Data Expertise in building high-throughput systems for sensor and video data, specifically handling the complexities of real-time ingestion and storage.
- Deep Infrastructure Knowledge involving time-series databases, streaming systems (like Kafka or Flink), and the integration of ML infrastructure to support production-level model inference.
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