About the Role
Join a small engineering team building AI tools for law enforcement and the broader criminal justice system. In this high-autonomy role, you will develop secure systems that help investigators search and analyze complex evidence, supporting important public safety work.
What You'll Do
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Build resilient, secure distributed systems for AI-powered evidence search and analysis.
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Deploy large language models, vision models, and other machine learning systems in production settings.
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Design retrieval-augmented generation pipelines and semantic search for unstructured evidence.
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Build structured data systems, including query planning and semantic reasoning capabilities.
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Work with agentic systems that can reason, plan, and take actions across investigative data.
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Evaluate emerging AI models and infrastructure approaches, and drive projects from problem definition through delivery.
What We're Looking For
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At least 6 years of backend engineering experience building distributed systems, including production deployment of LLMs, vision models, or other machine learning systems.
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Proficiency in Python and multiple programming languages, potentially including JavaScript and React.
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Experience designing RAG or similar pipelines for unstructured data, and building structured data systems with query planning, semantic modeling, or reasoning.
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Experience working across multiple infrastructure providers, with security and resilience as core considerations.
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A strong engineering background that includes experience in both an established organization and an early-stage startup.
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Curiosity about AI, comfort with ambiguity, and motivation to contribute to public safety.
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Authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Compensation & Benefits
The salary range is $150,000 to $215,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, California.
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