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

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

Machine Learning Systems Engineer, RL Engineering

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $500k - $850k
fine-tuning distributed-systems alignment llm reinforcement-learning machine-learning research
Hybrid full-time principal 6 months ago

Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Tokens

Anthropic · New York, NY · $350k - $500k
reinforcement-learning search data-pipeline distributed-systems pytorch alignment research
Hybrid full-time principal 6 months ago

Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
pre-training llm distributed-systems alignment search pytorch research
Hybrid full-time principal 6 months ago

Performance Engineer, GPU

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $280k - $850k
llm distributed-systems alignment pytorch gpu jax research
Hybrid full-time principal 6 months ago

Principal Architect

Scale AI · Washington, DC · $257k - $321k
distributed-systems llm cloud agents
On-site full-time principal 7 months ago

Principal Engineer, Data & ML Infrastructure

Motional · Boston, MA · $200k - $275k
cloud autonomous-vehicles distributed-systems infrastructure machine-learning
Remote full-time principal 8 months ago

Principal Software Engineer

Typeface · Palo Alto, CA · $247k - $267k
agents cloud distributed-systems generative-ai llm fine-tuning api-design
On-site full-time principal 8 months ago

Principal Machine Learning & Data Engineer

Twilio · Remote (US) · $217k - $271k
healthcare fine-tuning distributed-systems mlops machine-learning data-engineering
Remote full-time principal 8 months ago

Research Engineer/Research Scientist, Pre-training

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
pre-training deep-learning pytorch alignment search distributed-systems data-pipeline llm
Hybrid full-time principal 8 months ago

Staff / Principal Software Engineer - USA

Inworld AI · Mountain View, CA · $280k - $350k
data-pipeline llm api-design payments
Remote full-time principal 11 months ago

Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $500k
alignment deep-learning distributed-systems llm reinforcement-learning search fine-tuning research
Hybrid full-time principal 1 year ago

Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning)

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $500k - $850k
llm pytorch gpu tensorflow reinforcement-learning distributed-systems alignment search
Hybrid full-time principal 1 year ago

Performance Engineer

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $280k - $850k
alignment llm distributed-systems research
Hybrid full-time principal 1 year ago

Principal Software Engineer, Corporate AI

Dropbox · Remote (US) · $227k - $308k
distributed-systems data-pipeline nlp
Remote full-time principal 2 months ago

Distinguished Engineer

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA · $285k - $356k
generative-ai distributed-systems
On-site full-time principal 4 months ago

Principal Software Engineer, Simulation Efficiency Lead

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $332k - $421k
distributed-systems generative-ai autonomous-vehicles
On-site full-time principal 5 months ago

Principal Research Scientist, Database Systems

MongoDB · New York, NY · $168k - $330k
distributed-systems research
On-site full-time principal 9 months ago

Anthropic Fellows Program — Reinforcement Learning

Anthropic · London, UK
alignment distributed-systems reinforcement-learning security llm fine-tuning research
Hybrid full-time principal 4 days ago

Anthropic Fellows Program — ML Systems & Performance

Anthropic · London, UK
reinforcement-learning distributed-systems security alignment llm fine-tuning agents research
Hybrid full-time principal 4 days ago

Staff / Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Serving - Switzerland

Inworld AI · Switzerland
agents llm gpu distributed-systems machine-learning
Remote full-time principal 6 days ago

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Principal Backend & Systems Jobs — FAQ

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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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