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

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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

Senior Staff ML Engineer, Driver Understanding and Evaluation

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $281k - $356k
robotics fine-tuning distributed-systems autonomous-vehicles tensorflow generative-ai deep-learning reinforcement-learning
On-site full-time lead 4 months ago

Associate Director, MLOps Engineering

PathAI · New York, NY · $181k - $278k
distributed-systems healthcare pytorch mlops cloud generative-ai code-generation machine-learning
Remote full-time lead 4 months ago

Staff, ML Engineer - Road & Lane Detection

Torc Robotics · Montreal, Canada · $209k - $313k
deep-learning distributed-systems autonomous-vehicles computer-vision pre-training robotics pytorch payments
Hybrid full-time lead 4 months ago

Staff, ML Engineer - Road & Lane Detection

Torc Robotics · Ann Arbor, MI · $219k - $329k
distributed-systems computer-vision payments pre-training autonomous-vehicles robotics pytorch deep-learning
Hybrid full-time lead 4 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, AI Data Foundry

Motional · Boston, MA · $170k - $232k
autonomous-vehicles data-pipeline distributed-systems agents cloud infrastructure
Remote full-time lead 4 months ago

Staff, ML Engineer - BEV

Torc Robotics · Ann Arbor, MI · $219k - $329k
mlops distributed-systems payments autonomous-vehicles generative-ai robotics pytorch tensorflow
Hybrid full-time lead 4 months ago

Staff, ML Engineer - BEV

Torc Robotics · Montreal, Canada · $209k - $313k
tensorflow distributed-systems data-pipeline mlops payments pre-training autonomous-vehicles pytorch
Hybrid full-time lead 4 months ago

Sr Staff Data Scientist, Simulation Capacity Optimization

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $281k - $356k
autonomous-vehicles data-pipeline distributed-systems data-science
On-site full-time lead 5 months ago

Research Engineer, Interpretability

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $315k - $560k
pytorch distributed-systems alignment llm deep-learning gpu search pre-training
Hybrid full-time lead 5 months ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Dev Platform Data and Discovery

Reddit · Remote (US) · $230k - $322k
reinforcement-learning distributed-systems healthcare data-pipeline machine-learning
Remote full-time lead 5 months ago

Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Scenarios

Waabi · Remote (US) · $158k - $269k
robotics pytorch api-design autonomous-vehicles tensorflow reinforcement-learning mobile
Remote full-time lead 5 months ago

Deep Research Agent Tech Lead

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA · $264k - $331k
agents llm rag distributed-systems reinforcement-learning deep-learning embeddings generative-ai
On-site full-time lead 5 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Continuous Learning

Aurora Innovation · Mountain View, CA · $189k - $303k
llm generative-ai pytorch autonomous-vehicles computer-vision deep-learning distributed-systems reinforcement-learning
Hybrid full-time lead 5 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Foundational Model Serving

Databricks · San Francisco, CA · $192k - $260k
distributed-systems data-pipeline llm generative-ai mlops
On-site full-time lead 5 months ago

Staff AI Platform Engineer

AlphaSense · San Francisco, CA · $203k - $304k
llm agents distributed-systems microservices payments rag embeddings platform
On-site full-time lead 6 months ago

Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Research Tools

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $405k
llm fine-tuning data-pipeline distributed-systems alignment pre-training machine-learning research
Hybrid full-time lead 6 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Model Serving

Databricks · San Francisco, CA · $192k - $260k
mlops data-pipeline distributed-systems llm
On-site full-time lead 6 months ago

Staff AI Platform Engineer

AlphaSense · New York, NY · $203k - $304k
microservices agents distributed-systems embeddings payments llm rag platform
On-site full-time lead 6 months ago

Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Inference

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300k - $485k
cloud distributed-systems llm alignment infrastructure inference
Hybrid full-time lead 6 months ago

Platform Hardware Security

Anthropic · New York, NY · $405k - $485k
alignment cloud distributed-systems security
Hybrid full-time lead 6 months 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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