Member of Technical Staff
$200,000–$400,000 year
On-site · San Francisco, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United StatesOn-siteFull Time$200,000–$400,000 yearSenior LevelNot SpecifiedUnknown
Type
Full Time
Level
Senior Level
Education
Not Specified
Company size
Unknown
Job Summary
Senior individual contributor role designing and building custom database and memory systems; implementing real-time LLM token state management at scale; developing custom Unix OS distributions for humans and AI; applying psychology and organisational behaviour insights to UX decisions; pursuing micro-optimisations across the full stack; on-site in San Francisco.
Required Qualifications
- Required: Deep obsession with novel, overlooked, or technically unsolved problems.
- Required: Demonstrated ability to build large, complex, and maintainable systems in roughly one-third the time most engineers consider possible.
- Required: Proficiency in one or more of: TypeScript, Rust, Python.
- Required: Experience with graph databases, flexible data pipelines, or ontological modelling.
- Comfort applying psychology and organisational behaviour insights to product and UX decisions.
- Signal of outlier intelligence — top academic background or standout real-world experience (non-traditional backgrounds welcome).
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