# Member of Technical Staff - Backend/Distributed Systems at Emerald AI

- Company: Emerald AI
- What the company does: Emerald AI turns AI data centers into flexible grid assets, unlocking power capacity for AI while protecting grid reliability and energy affordability.
- Company website: https://www.emeraldai.co
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Bay Area
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2025-12-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/emerald-ai/ca65afd7-4b42-45ac-9e17-ea88f07240af
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/emerald-ai-member-of-technical-staff-backend-distributed-systems/

## About the role

We’re hiring a Distributed Systems / Backend Engineer to serve as a key contributor on the core backend platform powering Emerald AI. This is a high-impact role: you will drive architectural decisions, introduce best practices, build foundational infrastructure, and help guide the evolution of our real-time energy intelligence engine.

## What they're looking for

- Experience with distributed systems or data-intensive applications
- Experience building and operating backend or infrastructure systems with a focus on reliability, performance, and scalability
- Interest in grid systems, energy orchestration, and applying AI to real-world infrastructure
- Experience working on real-time or near real-time systems
- Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and turning open-ended problems into production systems
- Strong system design skills, including tradeoffs across latency, consistency, and scalability

Tags: Engineering