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Canada

  • Act as the technical bridge between enterprise customers and core engineering, designing APIs, SDKs, and workflows.
  • Architect production-ready AI infrastructure for LLM inference, RAG pipelines, and GPU-accelerated workloads.
  • Write production-grade Go, Python, and TypeScript while shaping product strategy and mentoring engineers.

Go Python TypeScript Kubernetes LLM/AI

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US Unlimited PTO

  • Owns the architectural direction for Code Metal's AI platform and the team building it.
  • Builds production-grade inference serving, model gateways, agent harnesses, and context-engineering services.
  • Instruments the stack end to end and drives experimentation and observability for reliable AI systems.

Code Metal provides automated software engineering using AI and formal verification to produce provably correct code. Founded in 2023 and backed by Accel, Salesforce Ventures, and others, it serves defense and enterprise customers from offices in Boston and San Francisco.

US

  • Partner directly with clients to turn ambiguous business challenges into clear technical plans and prototypes.
  • Build and deploy AI-enabled applications, agentic workflows, APIs, data pipelines, and full-stack products.
  • Engineer reliable agent harnesses, evaluation frameworks, and safeguards to ensure production-ready AI systems.

TribalScale is a digital innovation firm that partners with clients to build transformative digital products, modernize technology platforms, and apply AI to meaningful business challenges. The team values curiosity, ownership, practical innovation, and lives by principles of meritocracy, empowerment, and transparency.

Canada

  • Build and deliver full-stack and AI-powered solutions using Python, AWS, Azure, and Claude.
  • Work directly with business users to understand needs and iterate on collaborative solutions.
  • Implement RAG and agent-based capabilities with testing and evaluation to ensure quality.

The partner company focuses on delivering practical AI-powered solutions to clients across industries. It fosters a collaborative culture centered on innovation, learning, mentorship, diversity, and inclusion.

India

  • Architect and build production-grade agentic systems for platform automation and internal engineering workflows.
  • Design a shared AI platform with LLM gateway, observability, and evaluation for reliable AI capabilities.
  • Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and drive an AI-first culture across the Platform Services team.

HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system that helps agencies, entrepreneurs, and SMBs automate and scale. With over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries, it operates as a global, remote-first organization built for speed and ownership.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Own the vision for applied AI solutions across Reddit's business and technical functions.
  • Build AI applications, agents, and automations that solve real business problems.
  • Mentor engineers and set technical direction for AI-native workflows.

Reddit is a community of communities, hosting open and authentic conversations on the internet. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, it is one of the internet's largest sources of information.

Canada Unlimited PTO 16w maternity 16w paternity

  • Own end-to-end development of AI observability features, from ingestion to visualization.
  • Architect data models and infrastructure for observing AI agents across Honeycomb.
  • Partner with product and design to build intuitive workflows and share best practices.

Honeycomb is an observability platform that helps developers debug complex distributed systems, serving customers like HelloFresh and Slack. The company has surpassed 200 employees, closed Series D funding, and fosters a distributed-first, inclusive, and high-trust culture.

$170,000–$170,000/yr
Global 7w PTO

  • Lead the engineering foundation behind reliable, measurable, and scalable AI-powered features.
  • Build evaluation frameworks, observability tooling, and diagnostic infrastructure for AI agents in production.
  • Combine hands-on software engineering with technical leadership and people management.

The company builds AI-powered products with a focus on reliability, scalability, and evaluation infrastructure. It operates as a fully remote, globally distributed team with an ownership-oriented culture.

North America Unlimited PTO

  • Take deep ownership of systems and product areas, becoming the go-to technical expert for what you own.
  • Architect, build, and maintain highly available, scalable REST APIs and backend services across distributed systems.
  • Build agentically with AI coding tools, staying at the forefront of emerging AI tooling and practices.

Postscript is an AI messaging platform for Shopify brands, helping e-commerce marketers drive revenue through SMS marketing and AI features. Backed by Greylock and Y Combinator, the company has been fully remote since 2018 and serves 20,000+ Shopify brands with a culture of ownership and AI-first development.

$160,900–$260,700/yr
Global

  • Design, build, and operate production AI agents for developer productivity, from code review to incident response.
  • Build self-service platform infrastructure enabling teams to prototype, deploy, and scale their own AI developer tools.
  • Integrate LLM providers, agent orchestration frameworks, and MCP servers into reliable, loved developer tools.

Docker is a developer tooling company trusted by over 20 million monthly users for building, sharing, and running applications. We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building AI-powered tools that shape how software gets built and delivered.

$170,350–$275,550/yr
Global

  • Set technical direction and own architecture for AI-powered developer tools and the self-service platform.
  • Design and build production AI agents, LLM integrations, and platform infrastructure for developer productivity.
  • Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and drive cross-team technical delivery across Docker.

Docker provides developer tools for building, sharing, and running applications, trusted by over 20 million monthly users. They are a globally distributed, remote-first team focused on AI-native software development and platform engineering.

US Unlimited PTO 17w maternity 17w paternity

  • Build AI applications, agents, skills, connectors, and workflow automations that solve business problems.
  • Translate ambiguous business needs into AI-native workflows and own engineering from discovery to production launch.
  • Work closely with internal teams to embed AI solutions and drive measurable gains in quality, speed, and cost.

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust. With 100,000+ active communities and about 130 million daily active visitors, it is one of the internet's largest sources of information.

US

  • Research and architect prototype solutions that leverage AI to augment existing national security tools.
  • Develop robust, high-quality software with automated testing in a sprint-driven cadence.
  • Collaborate on architectural discussions and execute priority features as an independent technical lead.

Clarity Innovations is a national security partner delivering software and data engineering solutions that modernize data operations for the IC and DoD. The company is people-focused and dedicated to being a destination employer, with a culture that values innovation, career growth, and mission-driven impact.

$64,800–$97,200/yr
Germany

  • Translate customer requirements into production-ready AI application configurations.
  • Lead deployments including workflows, data flows, prompts, and guardrails.
  • Build integrations with third-party systems using APIs and webhooks.

They build AI-powered customer communication software. They are a small, fast-moving team focused on production deployments.

Global

  • Build and improve AI agents by writing production code for Voice Agent and Autopilot platforms.
  • Own enterprise AI deployments from initial discovery through go-live, working directly with customers.
  • Design and implement AI workflows, debug agents in production, and turn customer needs into reusable product features.

Supermove builds software and AI for moving companies, providing systems for sales, operations, crews, and billing. The company has raised $30M from investors like Andreessen Horowitz and serves moving businesses across the US, Canada, and Australia.

US

  • Build AI-based features into a platform serving millions of users.
  • Work directly with the platform architect to bring deep, hands-on LLM-stack expertise to production.
  • Stand up core AI infrastructure from scratch and shape engineering practices as the team grows.

TMTG is a social media company dedicated to delivering an engaging and censorship-free experience. It is fast-paced, rapidly growing, and committed to free speech.

North America 3w PTO

  • Develop, configure, deploy, and optimize AI agents using Cresta's AI platform and tools.
  • Build AI agent integrations with external systems such as APIs, databases, and CRMs to ensure seamless workflow integration.
  • Collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to gather technical requirements and translate business needs into AI agent solutions.

Cresta builds a unified AI platform that combines conversational AI agents, real-time human agent augmentation, and conversation intelligence to drive revenue and efficiency for customer experience channels. Born from Stanford AI Lab, the company has raised over $270 million from top investors and is led by AI industry veterans.

Europe

  • Guide architectural decisions across products, reviewing solutions from internal teams and vendors.
  • Establish shared engineering standards and modernise legacy systems for reliability and cost-effectiveness.
  • Define guardrails for production LLM systems and collaborate with teams on Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.

INFUSE is a technology company that develops software products, including AI and LLM-based solutions, across a large engineering landscape. Its software department spans 500+ repositories and fosters a remote-first culture with access to cutting-edge AI tools and human-centric values.

North America

  • Drive adoption of Tenstorrent's AI products by collaborating with enterprise customers and the sales team.
  • Provide technical expertise in AI/ML to translate complex concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Partner with sales operations and product teams to shape future product enhancements from customer feedback.

Tenstorrent is an AI technology company developing high-performance RISC-V CPUs and AI platforms. The diverse team of technologists values collaboration, curiosity, and solving hard problems.

Canada

  • Design and deliver production-grade agentic AI systems using Glean, OpenAI/GPT Enterprise, and AWS/GCP.
  • Own AI agents end to end, from architecture through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
  • Implement RAG, tool calling, permissions, and observability to ensure reliable, scalable enterprise AI.

This partner company builds production-grade agentic AI systems for enterprise environments, leveraging Glean, OpenAI/GPT Enterprise, and cloud infrastructure. They foster a collaborative, open-door culture with global projects and tailored learning opportunities.

$180,000–$260,000/yr
US

  • Build repeatable benchmarks and evaluation pipelines to measure model accuracy, hallucination, retrieval quality, latency, and cost.
  • Develop production retrieval, drafting, document, and agent workflows from research prototypes.
  • Deploy and operate cloud infrastructure, backend services, APIs, and internal tools.

They are a healthtech company building AI-powered products. The company values collaboration between AI research and product development.