AfterQuery
AI & Machine LearningDirect Ashby career site

Software Engineer - Platform/Applied AI

Location
San Francisco, CA · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Mid-level
Listed
30 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • Next.js
  • Python
  • Redis
  • Elasticsearch
  • Kafka
  • serverless (GCP/AWS)

Also useful

  • RabbitMQ

Stated benefits & perks

  • Health
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k match
  • Meal stipend

Why Apply

Massive Opportunity: Forbes reported that we could be YC's fastest unicorn, reportedly raising at a $3.2 billion valuation, and we're not slowing down.

Founding Impact: You will own and architect core infrastructure systems that power our platform from the ground up.

Equity & Growth: Competitive salary and meaningful equity. As we scale, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the engineering organization and lead major technical initiatives.

Strong Team: Our founding team has experience from Citadel Securities, Meta, Google, Silver Lake, and Morgan Stanley - work alongside world-class engineers and researchers.

Overview

As one of our core engineers, you’ll be critical in creating data infrastructure that will be shaping the future development of frontier models. You will be one of our first hires, and will get a lot of responsibility, owning entire projects end-to-end - meaning you can see your impact instantly.

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale complex data capturing workflows across web (Next.js) and desktop (Python)
  • Architect and optimize data pipelines that experience high throughput, with heavy loads
  • Collaborate with the founding team to define product strategy and ship features fast.
  • Set engineering best practices and lay the groundwork for future team growth.

Required Qualifications

  • Proficiency in JavaScript (Next.js) and Python, with demonstrated experience building full-stack web applications
  • Experience with serverless architecture and cloud functions for implementing heavy data processing (GCP/AWS)
  • Storage, caching & search: Hands-on with Redis (caching), Elasticsearch (indexing), and message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ) to build scalable, low-latency pipelines.
  • Experience getting your ideas into production (founder experience preferred)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Background in AI research, LLM evaluations, or human-in-the-loop systems

Company Benefits (For Eligible Employees)

  • Health Insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental
  • 401(k) with Employer Match
  • Daily Meals: Daily UberEats Stipend
  • Monthly Wellness Stipend

We comply with applicable pay transparency requirements and provide compensation ranges based on the position, qualifications, experience, and other relevant factors. This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed and is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications, or working conditions associated with the position. We reserve the right to modify this job description as business needs change.

About AfterQuery

AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development. We serve every frontier AI lab with the mission of delivering the best data to power the best models. In doing so, we can make expertise that once took a lifetime to build available to anyone who needs it.

Our customers are the ones building the foundation models themselves and our work sits directly in the loop of how those systems improve. This is a rare opportunity to join a company at a defining moment in AI. Forbes reported that we could be YC's fastest unicorn, reportedly raising at a $3.2 billion valuation. We're based in San Francisco and backed by leading investors including Altos Ventures, BoxGroup, and Y Combinator and angels from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Microsoft AI.

Read the original posting

From AfterQuery's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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