Principal Backend & Systems Jobs

74 principal backend & systems roles at 29 companies · Avg salary $391k (37 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

Staff / Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Serving - USA

Inworld AI · Mountain View, CA · $270k - $500k
gpu agents llm distributed-systems machine-learning
Remote full-time principal 6 days ago

Principal Software Engineer, ML System Architect

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

Principal Software Development Engineer - Rust, LLM, Networking

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

Principal Software Engineer, AI Automation

Coinbase · Remote (US) · $297k - $350k
fine-tuning generative-ai agents payments llm backend
Remote full-time principal 3 weeks ago

Principal Systems Software Engineer

Crusoe · San Francisco, CA · $260k - $340k
gpu distributed-systems llm generative-ai
On-site full-time principal 1 month ago

Principal Software Engineer, Financial Data Platform & GenSearch Agent

AlphaSense · Remote (US) · $246k - $339k
llm generative-ai payments distributed-systems fintech
Remote full-time principal 1 month ago

Research Engineer, Environment Scaling

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
data-pipeline alignment llm fine-tuning distributed-systems cloud reinforcement-learning search
Hybrid full-time principal 2 months ago

Engineering Manager, Safeguards Data Infrastructure

Anthropic · London, UK · $405k - $485k
data-pipeline alignment rust infrastructure
Hybrid full-time principal 2 months ago

Principal Software Engineer

Typeface · Bellevue, WA · $247k - $267k
cloud generative-ai llm api-design fine-tuning distributed-systems agents
On-site full-time principal 2 months ago

Principal Engineer Tech Lead Manager, ML Acceleration

Motional · Remote (US) · $240k - $330k
mlops data-pipeline deep-learning distributed-systems pytorch autonomous-vehicles infrastructure
Remote full-time principal 2 months ago

Principal Engineer Tech Lead Manager, ML Acceleration

Motional · Pittsburgh, PA · $240k - $330k
pytorch mlops deep-learning autonomous-vehicles data-pipeline distributed-systems infrastructure
On-site full-time principal 2 months ago

Principal Engineer Tech Lead Manager, ML Acceleration

Motional · Boston, MA · $240k - $330k
deep-learning autonomous-vehicles pytorch mlops distributed-systems data-pipeline infrastructure
Remote full-time principal 2 months ago

Research Engineer / Scientist, Societal Impacts

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $500k
alignment search llm distributed-systems research
Hybrid full-time principal 2 months ago

Research Engineer/Research Scientist, Audio

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $500k
reinforcement-learning llm fine-tuning pytorch distributed-systems alignment search speech
Hybrid full-time principal 2 months ago

Research Engineer, Universes

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $500k - $850k
agents fine-tuning alignment search llm reinforcement-learning distributed-systems research
Hybrid full-time principal 3 months ago

Principal Engineer - Perf and Benchmarking

CoreWeave · Sunnyvale, CA · $206k - $333k
llm gpu pytorch distributed-systems data-pipeline
Hybrid full-time principal 3 months ago

Research Engineer, Reward Models Platform

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $500k
alignment fine-tuning mlops data-pipeline distributed-systems search cloud reinforcement-learning
Hybrid full-time principal 3 months ago

Principal AI Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Platform

Natera · Remote (US) · $174k - $218k
llm cloud api-design distributed-systems search healthcare rag embeddings
Remote full-time principal 4 months ago

Principal Research Engineer - RL Gyms

Turing · San Francisco, CA · $250k - $350k
api-design fine-tuning search reinforcement-learning data-pipeline research
Hybrid full-time principal 5 months ago

Infrastructure Engineer, Pre-training

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
mlops data-pipeline alignment llm distributed-systems pre-training research infrastructure
Hybrid full-time principal 5 months ago

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There are currently 74 principal backend & systems jobs on AI Dev Jobs from 29 companies. The average salary is $391k based on 37 listings with published compensation.
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