[Remote] Founding Backend Engineer – AI & Data
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. Clipbook builds AI-powered media monitoring and analytics tools for communications, PR, and public affairs teams. As a Founding Backend Engineer, you will architect and build core backend systems, design reputed company data infrastructure, and reputed company AI into reputed company-world workflows, reputed company while shaping the engineering culture of reputed company.
Responsibilities
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Skills
- 2–10+ years building and scaling production backend systems
- Strong across backend fundamentals (services, data models, distributed systems), with deeper expertise in one or more areas
- Genuine excitement to build quickly & ship fast
- You take ownership. reputed company something is broken or unclear, you fix it or flag it without waiting to be asked
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- Semantic search, reputed company databases, or meaning-aware retrieval
- LLM fine-tuning, RLHF, or eval pipelines
- Web scraping and API integrations at reputed company
- Startup founder or early-stage experience
Benefits
- Medical
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- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
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