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TrustLab · 1 day ago

Backend / Systems Engineer (AI) - San Mateo, CA

San Mateo, California - USA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

Trustlab is seeking a Backend / Systems Engineer to help build a flexible, robust, and high-performance backend architecture that serves diverse use cases across customers and product lines. The role is critical in enabling AI engineers, analysts, and data scientists to rapidly prototype, iterate, and deploy workflows, services, and data pipelines leveraging large language models (LLMs).

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cyber SecuritySocial MediaSoftware

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Responsibilities

Build extensible backend systems that support flexible configurations for different customers and content types

Support infrastructure that interfaces cleanly with LLMs—enabling prompt engineering, context injection, and modular evaluation workflows

Advance tooling that enables fast iteration by AI engineers and analysts, including declarative pipelines, parameterized jobs, and reproducible experiments

Follow best practices for ease of deployment, integration, and testing—both for internal teams and external partners

Collaborate closely with product, data, and policy teams to translate nuanced safety needs into scalable, maintainable software systems

Qualification

Backend systems engineeringPythonCloud-native infrastructureScalable APIsLLM-based systemsGoJavaDjangoSnowflakeReactStep functions

Required

Experience and track record in backend systems or infrastructure engineering

Evidence of impact of your contributions to team and company

Software engineering skills in Python, Go, Java, or equivalent

Experience working with scalable APIs, backend systems and data pipelines

Familiarity with LLM-based systems (e.g., prompt management, context formatting, batch inference, prompt-tuning workflows)

Experience with cloud-native infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Lambda, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines)

Passion to learn, stretch and innovate

Preferred

Completed independent project work building or improving AI Agents

Familiarity with Django, Snowflake, React, Step functions

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Hybrid in-office policy

Company

TrustLab

TrustLab is an AI software company used to protect against misinformation, hate speech, identity fraud, and other harmful content.

Founded in 2019

Palo Alto, California, USA

11-50 employees

https://www.trustlab.com

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