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    Metis, Inc.

    Data Science

    Forward Engineer

    San Francisco, United StatesOn-SiteFull-time$150k – $450k / yearPosted 1mo ago
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    Job description

    About the Role

    As a Forward Engineer at Metis, you’ll be part of a tight-knit, product-driven team leveraging our training platform to deliver outcomes for customers. You’ll work across the stack, from low-level systems to user-facing features, to deliver resilient, high-performance products that power mission-critical AI workflows. You’ll own projects end-to-end, collaborate deeply with platform, research, and customers to make pragmatic technical decisions that tie directly to customer outcomes.

    We move fast, but we hold a very high bar for correctness, maintainability, and simplicity. You’ll be expected to write production-grade code, reason holistically about systems, and push the boundaries of what’s possible in applied AI engineering.

    What You'll Do

    • Translate research prototypes into production systems that enterprises and labs can reliably adopt
    • Collaborate with platform, product and research teams to ship features under real customer constraints
    • Write clean, testable code in modern languages while leveraging AI tools to accelerate development
    • Debug complex systems, identify bottlenecks, and drive performance, security, and reliability improvements

    Requirements

    • Strong fundamentals in at least one modern language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.)
    • Experience with backend systems, distributed computing, or high-volume services
    • Strong communication abilities with a high bar for customer interaction
    • Ability to turn ambiguous product asks into simple, pragmatic solutions
    • Familiarity with system design, software engineering best practices, and debugging in production environments
    • Comfortable working across the stack — from APIs and orchestration to user-facing surfaces

    Compensation & Benefits

    • Base: $150,000–$450,000
    • Significant Equity
    • Full medical, dental, and vision
    • Wellness & L&D stipend
    • Equinox membership
    • Breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided (Unlimited Doordash)
    • $25,000 housing stipend

    About Metis

    Metis helps enterprises and labs build the most reliable AI agents by leveraging post-training. Our platform enables the creation, improvement, and deployment of the most capable frontier agents designed for rigorous, real-world workflows.

    Momentum
    • 0 → six-figure monthly revenue in the last six weeks
    • Working with several Fortune 500 enterprises & frontier AI labs
    • Growing 150%+ MoM
    Backed by
    Y Combinator, CRV, and executives from OpenAI, Google, Mercor, NVIDIA, and others.

    Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.

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    Metis, Inc.

    Metis is a data science company that provides a platform for data scientists to collaborate and build machine learning models.

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