# Software Engineer, Applied AI at Fluidstack

- Company: Fluidstack
- What the company does: Fluid State is a human resource firm that provides career management, customer services, recognition of protagonism, and help desk services. Backed by Seedcamp.
- Company website: https://fluidstack.io
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $173K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-17
- Apply by: 2026-11-01
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fluidstack/835e6b2c-bf7a-41e8-a308-71ecf4adad07
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/fluidstack-software-engineer-applied-ai/

## About the role

Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role. Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.

## What they're looking for

- The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would
- You move toward ambiguity, not away from it. You walk into the fog, build the map, and explain it to everyone else
- You learn at a steep slope. You reach real competence in an unfamiliar domain fast, whether it's a workflow engine, an authz model, or a geospatial format. We value this over existing expertise
- You have taste in abstraction. You see the one primitive hiding under five janky one-offs, and you know when not to abstract
- You model domains with rigor earned the hard way. You've gotten it wrong, felt the pain, and never forgot it
- You pull structure out of mess. You've done real work turning messy, unstructured data into something usable, in ML, data engineering, or research

Tags: Acceleration