FriendliAI, San Francisco
We believe using large language and multimodal models should be as simple as calling an API. To achieve this in production, we need to serve enterprises across clouds, with authentication, billing, multi-tenant isolation, and zero tolerance for downtime.
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who is excited by the full breadth of what it takes to run a platform in production. You will own the business logic layer that sits between our inference engine and every customer who relies on it. Your work spans API engineering, service development, and data architecture. If you like solving problems that only reveal themselves in the wild, this is your role: edge cases in multi-cloud orchestration, enterprise requirements that don’t fit neatly into a spec, performance bottlenecks that are hard to reproduce.
You will move across domains, make decisions under uncertainty, and build systems that work cleanly, reliably, and at scale. We are looking for people with a track record of owning complex systems in production and solving unique problems. A great candidate is a strong collaborator who enjoys solving complex architectural challenges, cares deeply about developer workflows, and is eager to help define the future of AI adoption.
FriendliAI is building the world’s best AI inference platform that makes large language and multi-modal models fast, efficient, and deployable at scale. We power high-throughput, low-latency AI workloads for organizations worldwide and integrate directly with Hugging Face, giving developers instant access to over 600,000 open-source models.
We are a small, fast-moving team doing work that matters at one of the most exciting moments in the history of technology. With our world-class inference engine, we are building a platform that the AI industry can actually rely on.
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