Software Engineer (Backend)
Location: San Francisco (3 days per week in office)
Cleanlab’s mission is to democratize safe, trustworthy, and reliable AI. We build open-source algorithms, APIs, and web applications based on our research to help individuals and teams build safe, trustworthy, and reliable AI applications.
The role
As a backend software engineer at Cleanlab, you will be responsible for building the backend APIs that power the Cleanlab AI platform (including TLM and Codex), which solves detection and remediation of bad outputs from AI applications such as chatbots, RAG, and agents.
What you might work on
- Designing and implementing backend features to support issue detection, visualization, interpretation, and remediation
- Optimizing our systems for low latency, scalability, and reliability
- Ideating and prototyping novel product features enabled by our research
- Collaborating with our data scientists and machine learning engineers to integrate feedback
Our backend tech stack includes Python, FastAPI, and Postgres/pgvector. Our backend infrastructure is developed and deployed using Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and AWS.
What we’re looking for
- Track record of shipping high-quality code in challenging projects
- Exceptional programming skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, navigate ambiguity, and adapt to changing priorities
Cleanlab strives to be a place where high-potential individuals come together to build something great. We value grit and the ability to learn quickly as much as skill and experience.
Our software engineering jobs have no hard requirements (like years of industry work experience, or even experience with the programming languages we use). Instead, we evaluate each application individually and consider any aspects that might stand out. Do you have some amazing open-source contributions? Did you write an impactful paper? Did you do some amazing work at a past job?
If you’re a great hacker, you believe in our mission, and you identify with our culture, we encourage you to apply!
How to apply
- Apply here: https://cleanlab.ai/apply
Benefits
Working at Cleanlab is awesome! Beyond the opportunity to work at a well-funded AI startup with an incredible, friendly founding team of MIT graduates, all full-time employees receive the following:
- Premium health insurance, including dental and vision.
- Professional development stipend to keep up with the latest innovations in ML and software.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Unlimited PTO, unlimited sick days, 10 company-wide holidays.
- Work with a talented team unified by a vision to solve challenging problems in artificial intelligence.
- Competitive salary (+ equity offering for certain roles), with regular opportunities for a raise if things are going well.
- Relocation bonus to move to San Francisco.
The compensation range for this role is $140,000 to $200,000. The final offer details are determined by several factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the pay range provided.
About us
Prior to Cleanlab, our founders (3 ML PhDs from MIT) worked at OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, AWS, Facebook AI Research (FAIR), Dropbox, Oculus, Palantir, NASA, General Electric, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, MIT, Harvard, and Stanford – at every place we worked we repeatedly encountered the same issue – AI solutions failed to work reliably on real-world, human-centric data due to label errors and poor data quality. So, we spent eight years of PhD research at MIT inventing a new field to solve this problem and after successful pilots with world-leading organizations, Cleanlab emerged.
Everything we do at Cleanlab is guided by our north star—to help companies build reliable AI applications—unlocking the ability to use AI on many real-world applications where reliability is paramount. We develop next-generation data-centric AI, open-source algorithms and build APIs and web applications to help individuals and teams at companies (across all industries) build reliable AI.
While many companies can help build AI models, there exist few solutions today to build make this AI reliable, which is essential for production deployments of AI. This is where you come in. At Cleanlab, you’ll be able to take ownership of critical projects that pioneer the future of AI reliability.
We are a hybrid company, with over half of our team (and office) located in San Francisco.