Lead Backend & Systems Jobs

430 lead backend & systems roles at 114 companies · Avg salary $274k (205 with data)

Backend engineering, distributed systems, and API development at AI companies

backendgopythonrustmicroservicesapi-designdistributed-systems
agents 1530 autonomous-vehicles 410 cloud 927 computer-vision 412 data-pipeline 709 deep-learning 494 distributed-systems 956 fine-tuning 525 generative-ai 1296 healthcare 609 infrastructure 359 llm 1753 machine-learning 397 mlops 382 payments 760 pytorch 695 reinforcement-learning 371 research 503 robotics 599 search 536

Tech Lead Manager ML Optimization

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $298k - $378k
tensorflow pytorch distributed-systems autonomous-vehicles
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer, TLM

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $281k - $356k
data-pipeline pytorch deep-learning distributed-systems robotics llm autonomous-vehicles fine-tuning
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Generative AI Chief Engineering Lead

Anduril · Boston, MA · $254k - $336k
computer-vision agents reinforcement-learning autonomous-vehicles robotics llm mlops distributed-systems
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Software Engineer, AI Platform

Harvey AI · Toronto, Canada · $154k - $264k
distributed-systems agents generative-ai platform
Remote full-time lead 1 month ago

Software Engineer, AI Platform

Harvey AI · New York, NY · $220k - $300k
agents generative-ai distributed-systems platform
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Software Engineer, AI Platform

Harvey AI · San Francisco, CA · $220k - $300k
agents generative-ai distributed-systems platform
Remote full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Tech Lead Manager, ML Data Services

Motional · Pittsburgh, PA · $225k - $275k
autonomous-vehicles data-pipeline distributed-systems infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Tech Lead Manager, ML Data Services

Motional · Boston, MA · $225k - $275k
data-pipeline autonomous-vehicles distributed-systems infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Tech Lead Manager, ML Data Services

Motional · Boston, MA · $225k - $275k
data-pipeline distributed-systems autonomous-vehicles infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago

Frontier Data Lead - RL Gyms

Turing · San Francisco, CA · $250k - $350k
api-design reinforcement-learning fine-tuning data-pipeline
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago

Lead AI Engineer, Enterprise AI Operations

Webflow · Remote (US) · $204k - $256k
rag llm distributed-systems agents
Remote full-time lead 1 month ago

Member of Technical Staff - ML & Data Infrastructure

xAI · Palo Alto, CA · $180k - $440k
llm gpu data-pipeline embeddings pre-training distributed-systems agents infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Auction (Ads Marketplace Quality)

Reddit · Remote (US) · $230k - $322k
healthcare pytorch tensorflow distributed-systems machine-learning
Remote full-time lead 1 month ago

Member of Technical Staff - GPU Infrastructure

Prime Intellect · San Francisco, CA · $150k - $300k
pytorch distributed-systems agents generative-ai llm reinforcement-learning gpu infrastructure
Remote full-time lead 1 month ago

Senior or Staff MLE - Droid Perception (Onboard)

Zipline · San Francisco, CA · $180k - $265k
data-pipeline distributed-systems computer-vision deep-learning healthcare robotics
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Software Engineer, Continuous Learning

Aurora Innovation · San Francisco, CA · $189k - $303k
pytorch computer-vision reinforcement-learning llm deep-learning generative-ai autonomous-vehicles distributed-systems
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Software Engineer, AI

Okta · San Francisco, CA · $194k - $267k
distributed-systems rag agents microservices api-design llm generative-ai cloud
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Member of Technical Staff, Pre-training Systems

Magic · San Francisco, CA · $225k - $550k
distributed-systems deep-learning gpu pre-training code-generation
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Member of Technical Staff, Inference & RL Systems

Magic · San Francisco, CA · $225k - $550k
pre-training distributed-systems code-generation inference
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Infrastructure Engineer - Member of Technical Staff

Simile · Palo Alto, CA · $200k - $400k
agents generative-ai distributed-systems cloud infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

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There are currently 430 lead backend & systems jobs on AI Dev Jobs from 114 companies. The average salary is $274k based on 205 listings with published compensation.
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