Principal Backend & Systems Jobs

179 principal backend & systems roles at 50 companies · Avg salary $384k (73 with data)

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

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Research Engineer, Performance RL Featured Pinned

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
search gpu distributed-systems pytorch fine-tuning alignment code-generation jax
Hybrid full-time principal 2 months ago

Performance Engineer, Inference Systems

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
llm alignment distributed-systems research inference
Hybrid full-time principal 1 week ago

Principal Engineer, AI Platform

Epic Games · BLANK,BLANK,Multiple Locations · $223k - $327k
agents security embeddings microservices distributed-systems api-design llm platform
On-site full-time principal 1 week ago

Sr. Principal / Distinguished ML Scientist, Autonomous Science for Cell Biology

Lila Sciences · San Francisco, CA · $360k - $570k
agents pytorch tensorflow distributed-systems generative-ai
On-site full-time principal 2 weeks ago

Principal Software Engineer, AI (Web & Data)

Okta · Toronto, Canada · $175k - $192k
healthcare cloud llm data-pipeline agents embeddings alignment distributed-systems
On-site full-time principal 3 weeks ago

Distinguished Engineer, Agentic SDLC & Non‑Linear Productivity

GitLab · Remote (Canada) · $260k - $345k
agents llm alignment distributed-systems
Remote full-time principal 3 weeks ago

Principal Research Scientist - AI Scaling & Optimization

Databricks · Mountain View, CA · $270k - $350k
deep-learning generative-ai data-pipeline agents distributed-systems llm pytorch research
On-site full-time principal 4 weeks ago

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Thinking Machines · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $475k
fine-tuning distributed-systems cloud pytorch devops infrastructure
On-site full-time principal 1 month ago

Software Engineer, Full Stack, Tinker

Thinking Machines · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $475k
payments pytorch distributed-systems api-design fine-tuning fullstack infrastructure
On-site full-time principal 1 month ago

Principal, Machine Learning Engineer

Lila Sciences · San Francisco, CA · $252k - $374k
gpu pytorch distributed-systems tensorflow agents mlops machine-learning
On-site full-time principal 1 month ago
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Research Engineer, Model Evaluations

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $485k
alignment data-pipeline agents search llm distributed-systems evaluation research
Hybrid full-time principal 1 month ago

Senior / Principal ML Scientist, Foundation Models for Life Sciences

Lila Sciences · San Francisco, CA · $268k - $384k
distributed-systems tensorflow generative-ai pytorch agents
On-site full-time principal 1 month ago

Principal Research Scientist – Scaling

Databricks · San Francisco, CA · $280k - $350k
agents data-pipeline deep-learning llm pytorch distributed-systems generative-ai research
On-site full-time principal 1 month ago

Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity)

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $500k - $850k
pytorch search distributed-systems pre-training alignment research machine-learning
Hybrid full-time principal 1 month ago

Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, GenAI Technology

Point72 · United States · $180k - $300k
reinforcement-learning generative-ai distributed-systems machine-learning infrastructure
On-site full-time principal 1 month ago

Rust SW-Silicon Co-verification Engineer

MatX · Mountain View, CA · $250k - $475k
robotics cloud generative-ai rust
Remote full-time principal 1 month ago

Robotics Application & Product Security Engineer

Field AI · Irvine, CA · $90k - $300k
security robotics distributed-systems infrastructure platform
On-site full-time principal 1 month ago

Staff / Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Serving - USA

Inworld AI · Mountain View, CA · $270k - $500k
distributed-systems gpu llm agents machine-learning
Remote full-time principal 1 month ago

Principal Software Engineer, ML System Architect

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $349k - $431k
tensorflow robotics jax deep-learning autonomous-vehicles data-pipeline distributed-systems generative-ai
On-site full-time principal 1 month ago

Principal Software Development Engineer - Rust, LLM, Networking

Zscaler · San Jose, CA · $182k - $260k
mlops security llm distributed-systems api-design data-pipeline rust
Hybrid full-time principal 2 months ago
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