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Metis This range is provided by Metis. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range
$150,000.00/yr - $450,000.00/yr Overview
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 Youll 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. Seniority level
Entry level Employment type
Full-time Job function
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Forward Engineer
role at
Metis This range is provided by Metis. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range
$150,000.00/yr - $450,000.00/yr Overview
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 Youll 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. Seniority level
Entry level Employment type
Full-time Job function
Engineering and Information Technology Industries
Research Services
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