senior software engineering Backend Engineer ic 5+ yrs
$160,000 – $250,000
USD per year

About this role

Together AI is hiring a senior-level Backend Engineer in the software engineering function based in San Francisco, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, TypeScript, Rust, CUDA and roughly 5+ years of relevant work. Compensation is listed at $160,000–$250,000 per year.

Role
Backend Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
5+ years
Department
Engineering
AI Summary
Senior backend engineer optimizing inference systems for large-scale AI model serving. Build global request routing, auto-scaling, and multi-tenant traffic shaping across thousands of GPUs. Requires 5+ years distributed systems experience with deep OS knowledge.

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Job description

from Together AI careers

About the Role

Together AI is building the Inference Platform that brings the most advanced generative AI models to the world. Our platform powers multi-tenant serverless workloads and dedicated endpoints, enabling developers, enterprises, and researchers to harness the latest LLMs, multimodal models, image, audio, video, and speech models at scale.

If you get a thrill from optimizing latency down to the last millisecond, this is your playground. You’ll work hands-on with tens of thousands of GPUs (H100s, H200s, GB200s, and beyond), figuring out how to fully utilize every FLOP and every gigabyte of memory.

You’ll collaborate directly with research teams to bring frontier models into production, making breakthroughs usable in the real world. Our team also works closely with the open source community, contributing to and leveraging projects like SGLang, vLLM, and NVIDIA Dynamo to push the boundaries of inference performance and efficiency.

  • Shape the core inference backbone that powers Together AI’s frontier models.
  • Solve performance-critical challenges in global request routing, load balancing, and large-scale resource allocation.
  • Work with state-of-the-art accelerators (H100s, H200s, GB200s) at global scale.
  • Partner with world-class researchers to bring new model architectures into production.
  • Collaborate with and contribute to the open source community, shaping the tools that advance the industry.
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